Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Little Nicky (Game Boy Color) Game Rip

Okay, this post came out of left field so I'll make it brief. No I've never seen Little Nicky and from what I've heard it's a trainwreck and Adam Sandler may have... not been the greatest choice for the lead. Fitting considering today's subject.

Back in 2018, the video game tie-in to Little Nicky was one of the games presented on Vinesauce's "Quality GBA and GBC games" stream in August 2018. After having played it myself, the only opinion I can give is that it's playable, but hard, especially since there is no proper difficulty curve, you don't heal inbetween levels, and you cannot continue once you're out of lives. The backgrounds may be decent but the sprites are rather sloppy looking (especially the faces) and the levels are not designed around the limited view you're given thanks to screen crunch.

This is not the game's boxart- I went with the first copyright screen because the actual boxart is atrocious.

The soundtrack on the other hand, done by Robert Baffy, is what caught me onto the game during the aforementioned Vinesauce stream. It's no contender for best Game Boy music or even the best VGM of 2000, but it still features some catchy themes despite coming from a game based on a movie starring Adam Sandler.

This rip contains all 13 (heh) tracks from the game's sound test (or the "Metal Mix" as the game calls it), as portrayed by the emulator bgb. It's probably the best I can get the game's soundfont to cooperate and not sound butchered considering there's not really any other Game Boy game with this kind of hard-rockin' music to memory.

I'll be quiet now and give you all the download link.

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