Let's play Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Let’s play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Let’s play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde! Let's play Dr Jekyll and Mr. HydeI guess I didn’t know what I was getting into when I offered people the chance to make requests during Total Request July. This is as good a piece of evidence to support that idea as any.

Let’s Play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:

Talk about a shit storm of a game. Let’s start with the concept. Who the hell decided that the fictional story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde would make a good idea for a video game? Who was so out of touch that they thought kids would respond to something like that?

Okay, you get to play as two characters, that sounds actually half decent in theory but quickly disappears when you play what was the execution of said idea in this game. You understandably begin as Dr. Jekyll, a milk mannered scientist on his way to… somewhere. With a goal of… something. Of course he doesn’t really have any offense being a mild mannered scientist, and that of course means that everything and anything in his town is out to exploit that and kick his ass.

This includes children, women, dogs, cats, bugs… I hate this game. Then when what would normally be harmless and or helpful in other games, the aforementioned baddies, hit you enough, if you don’t get lucky and just keel over and die, then you get angry enough and spontaneously turn into Mr. Hyde.

What annoys me about playing as Mr. Hyde is… you know, nevermind that’s an awful beginning to a sentence because it suggests that it’s a finite list when really it’s everything.

The gameplay actually manages to get substantially worse while playing as Hyde, you’re (I’m) unable to defend myself to I guess get my rage meter back down and revert to Dr. Jekyll (I never even came close, I’m still not even convinced that that’s how it works), and perhaps most maddening of all is the fact that you’re gimping back to the beginning of the level, undoing all of the annoying progress that you made as Jekyll.

I reserve this for my most hated games I’ve ever played, but fuck this game.

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