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Earthworm Jim

>> No.6135049

forced meme character

>> No.6135065

can we stop pretending that earthworm jim was ever a good game?

>> No.6135087

>>6135065
1 is. Everything else is basura.

>> No.6135091

>>6135065
1 is good
2 is borderline great
3's boss battles are hot trash but the rest of the game is pretty decent

>> No.6135096

>>6135065
1 and 2 were great.

>> No.6135118

>>6135065
Fuck off with your "never good" memes

>> No.6135137

Puppy love sucks.

>> No.6135141

indeed

>> No.6135145

https://twitter.com/TommyTallarico/status/1217144351735738368
Source of the image. It's from the new Intellivision Amico Earthworm Jim.

>> No.6135150

>>6135049
>>6135049
Put your trip back on PrincessSevenleaf.

>> No.6135152

>>6135150
Forgot>>6135065

>> No.6135184

>>6135038
Great animation. Is it fanart or some new project?

>> No.6135185

>>6135184
see >>6135145

>> No.6135192

>>6135145
I should scan the Making Of book from Doug's recent comic campaign, it's got interviews with all these chuckleheads.

>> No.6135197

>>6135145
>Intellivision Amico
Oof, what a waste.

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>>6135038

>> No.6135219
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>>6135217

>> No.6135221

How lucky was I to have gotten the special edition CD as a kid? Apparently it was the best version overall. It even had a desktop theme.

>> No.6135620

>>6135038
>>6135217
>>6135219
he's damn cute

>> No.6135624

>>6135038
>Through soil he did crawl!

>> No.6135641

>>6135065
1 and 2 were classics of the era that competed with the greatest of the great games like Mario and Zelda, the fuck are you on about?

>> No.6135701

>>6135641
While I do think that EWJ2 focused too much on novelty levels, it's quite likely that a lot of the vague criticism of the ga.e is due to the character's creator.

>> No.6135713

>>6135701
Doug TenNapel? Why? did he say "I like sexy women" or something?

>> No.6135735 [DELETED] 

>>6135713
He said that trannies misgender themselves by insisting being called women.

>> No.6135737

>>6135713
He's a pretty big conspiracy sperg and literally wrote articles for Breitbart. Doesn't matter though, games are fun.

>> No.6135770

>>6135038
A soil he did crawl

>> No.6135787 [DELETED] 

>>6135735
Well, that's truth. He didn't say trans people weren't human, he was simply sharing the medical facts with everyone.

>> No.6135797

Aladdin's Inside the Lamp level was the first Earthworm Jim level.

>> No.6135807

>>6135065
I really wasn't liking Earthworm Jim when I couldn't beat it but it's a pretty good game after doing so, but it comes with a lot of flaws. You can still enjoy playing it though.
Same goes for Earthworm Jim 2. I really only dislike the plane stage.

>> No.6135834

>>6135197
If you want a 2D/2.5D console and classic games actually reimagined instead of ported to shitty clone consoles, this is your only shot.

>> No.6135851

>>6135807
I love EWJ2 and the Flying King level is a disaster area of a level. It's not hard, challenging, or fun, it's just a yawnfest of flying forward and clearing a path for the bomb, then taking the rockets back and pushing the bomb to the other side. The only other level that sucks that bad is the final level since it's just a trial and error race. Once you know the pattern, you can't fail.

>> No.6135887

>>6135797
Virgin's Aladdin is literally an Earthworm Jim prototype, right down to the shoddier hitboxes and worse level design in Aladdin.
>>6135807
While EWJ1 comes with a few caveats, you still get an overall smooth experience out of it with enough balance between regular platforming and zany altered playstyles.
Meanwhile EWJ2 and its playstyles are just not very satisfying compared to its prequel, specially with The Flying King, the outright slog that is the salamander stage, and the puppy "bonus" stages.

>> No.6135898 [DELETED] 

>>6135787
You're not allowed to do that in <current year>

>> No.6135914

Earthworm Jim was like playing a Nickelodeon cartoon

>> No.6135918

>>6135038
That looks so cool. I would try to copy the art of the games when I was a teenager but didn't know much about drawing in general. Good times.

>> No.6136034

>>6135038
He’s such a groovy guy!

>> No.6136076

>>6136034
He rockets through the sky!

>> No.6136080

>>6135834
They'll keep trying these until the generation that grew up with 2D dies

>> No.6136186 [DELETED] 

>Earthworm Jim
>good

>> No.6136204 [DELETED] 

>>6135701
>oh shit this dude's not a pink-haired communist!
leftists were a mistake

>> No.6136206 [DELETED] 

>>6135713
he's an alt rightard and pedophile.

>> No.6136303

>>6136076
Cruising through the universe, having lots of fun!
Here comes Earthworm Jim, you know that he's a mighty one!

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>Flying King level

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>>6135065
bro earthworm jim on sega CD is badass you don't know wat ur missing

>> No.6137875

>>6136080
Uhhh, like almost all platformers are 2D now. Every now & then a 3D one like A Hat in Time comes out and THAT'S considered the odd throwback title.

>> No.6137885

>>6135221
Yeah
I only got the shareware and I wish I got the full version.

>> No.6137886 [DELETED] 

>>6135701
I went searching for a lot of this criticism and I really can't find it aside from some posts with 15 likes on twitter about how much of a shitlord he is.

>> No.6137910

>>6135065
I never pretended they were good. Even in the 90s I thought they were poorly-made games with bad level design.

>> No.6137939

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIke0JFJ-z4

>> No.6138096

>>6135192
Can you scan his comic too, I want to read it

>> No.6138101

50,000 views in 1 day.

>> No.6138126

EWJs were clearly games made by artists and not, you know, actual game designers. So yeah, it looks beautiful and sound amazing but gameplay in general is a disaster with shit like recurring Psy Crow races and Puppy Love and uninspired and boring final levels.

>> No.6138135 [DELETED] 

>>6138126
>parroting what that retard Derek Yu said on Tumblr years ago
The game was designed by veteran game designers and programmers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perry_(game_developer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bruty

>> No.6138147

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPZzA1T9hJw&feature=emb_title

>> No.6138410 [DELETED] 

stopcelebratingnazis

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>>6135713
>>6135737
Leftist extremists take issue with his Christian views on homosexuality. It was previously highlighted on leftist extremist website Wikipedia.

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>>6138430
Part 2

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>>6138430
>>6138432
Based duckwalk

>> No.6138830

>>6137910
>>6138126
see>>6135150

>> No.6138846

>>6135137
Never understood this sentiment. I loved it, even as a kid, used to use the level select codes to just replay them over and over.

Usually I find people who hate it or can't git gud at it don't realize how important changing your direction is. It gets you less reach than a dive, but it's just enough more to be helpful and is far more controllable.

>> No.6138849

>>6135217
>>6135219
These were some of my favorite games as a kid and I played them a ton, so I kind of overlooked how much better the sprite animation is than literally any other game. Only contender I can think of is Aladdin, because they worked with the actual Disney animators on that one.

>> No.6138851

>>6135701
>EWJ2 focused too much on novelty levels
I disagree, because most of them are fun. The only one I really hate is The Flyin' King.

>> No.6139118

>>6135217
>HNNNNNG

>> No.6139126

>>6138096
Then go buy it. He's putting up a 2nd chance campaign on kickstarter.

>> No.6139720

EWJ2 > EWJ1

>> No.6139812

>>6135887
>shoddier hitboxes and worse level design in Aladdin.

Except that that's bullshit in both cases.

>> No.6139816

>>6135737
And the guy who did the music for Neverhood is a hardcore fundamental Christian and also runs a jesus rock band, but that don't make Neverhood any less good.

>> No.6139902

>>6139812
You never noticed it? Dave Perry's games always have hitbox issues, even his 3D game, MDK. And before Aladdin it was Cool Spot.
Dude is great at working at games with good atmosphere, art design and humor, but as games they're always consistently flawed, albeit not outright bad to the point of being unplayable.

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tfw she kisses your worm

>> No.6141459

>>6139902
>that one time when you threw interesting bomb and one of the enemies glitched himself out of the room and couldn't progress further