Thursday, February 19, 2009

Hard Head 2


Surprisingly, Hard Head managed to somehow be popular enough to warrant a sequel, the even more ugly and mystifying Hard Head 2. This time, Hard Head is armed and back with a vengeance, once again attempting to rescue his equally hideous love interest from the giant demon monster that seems to be in the process of eating her. Instead of shooting bubbles, Hard Head starts out with a wimpy kick that can be upgraded if you kill the vase-wielding turtles running through the levels. You usually start out with a spiked club,and upgrade to a mace and a bubble shooting gun, among other things. Also, while you start off in your marioesque overalls, getting hit will strip you of all your clothes, showing off your second, smaller, less than hard head. Though it never reaches hentai-level excesses, there is still something fundamentally disturbing about seeing such an ugly character doff trou, though the foes you fight are also nightmarish and ugly. Overall, Hard Head is a bad ghouls and ghosts wannabe with a special emphasis on melee weapons and displeasing weirdness that unsettles the stomach like cheap sushi.

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