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@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ This is clearly Twilight at their best. Compared to [Yogi Bear's Gold Rush](/gam
There's enough meat to the bone here to keep you occupied for several hours, not taken into account the lack of a save or password feature. Secrets are fun to discover, and after a while, you'll want to explore each stage thoroughly enough to please the angry sunflower at the end of the level. "THIS WILL HELP YOU" it says, and then throws in a bunch of goodies that will hopefully lead to a 1-up. Thanks buddy! If you collect all presents in the bonus levels the end of each stage, another sorely needed 1-up is waiting for you.
It's worth mentioning that this game isn't just weird, but its publishers are too: it was marketed by leveraging local politics by the product manager who ran as the _Alfred Chicken Party_ candidate in Dorset in 1993. Although he finished second last (18 votes, great!), it partially worked and promoted this chickeny but hardcore-precise platformer on various systems. See what European developers have to do to promote their games?
It's worth mentioning that this game isn't just weird, but its publishers are too: it was marketed by leveraging local politics by the product manager who ran as the _Alfred Chicken Party_ candidate in Dorset in 1993. Although he finished second last (18 votes, great!), it partially worked and promoted this chickeny but hardcore-precise platformer on various systems. See what European developers have to do to promote their games? Unfortunately for Alfred, it never became more than a one-time adventure. Its latest reincarnation was a misshapen 2.5D Playstation remix in 2002 by Möbius Entertainment---the same company that would get to do the GBC color overhaul. Möbius, now Rockstar Leeds, would later focus on excellent handheld side stories of Grand Theft Auto on PSP and DS.
However, as is the case with Yogi Bear, there are two things keeping Alfred Chicken from being really great. The first is the painful lack of a password system or save feature. There are 11 stages and a thousand different ways to die in each of them. Without the save state feature of the Analogue Pocket, I wouldn't have made it past stage 5. As said before: get the Japanese GB version or the GBC version.
As is the case with Yogi Bear, there are two things keeping Alfred Chicken from being really great. The first is the painful lack of a password system or save feature. There are 11 stages and a thousand different ways to die in each of them. Without the save state feature of the Analogue Pocket, I wouldn't have made it past stage 5. As said before: get the Japanese GB version or the GBC version.
The bigger problem is the music. At first you'd classify it as weird as the game itself in a jolly good way. But the game requires timing, patience, and precise movement---that is made even harder with the gradually maddening soundtrack set on repeat. There are only two tracks that alternate between each stage, but they're _very_ similar, and remind me of awful carnival music. It's not as bad as in Yogi Bear's Gold Rush, but getting close. Judge for yourself in the following GBC clip (compared to the original GB version I'm reviewing here, the music hasn't changed):