![]() ![]() But there’s one other obstacle… one special hazard… the thing that will haunt your dreams as you try to conceive of beating this game. It’s a real hodgepodge assholery in video games. The stages themselves feature a heaping helping of spikes, flames, enemies moving in wavey lines, death traps, moving platforms, falling platforms, and even timed appearing and disappearing platforms straight out of Mega Man. Some are needed to reach certain secrets as well, but they are entirely optional. Once you’ve found them you can switch between any of them on the fly to take advantage of their strengths and weaknesses. There’s Mike, Guitar Guy, and Bullshit Man. If you look hard enough you just might find the three hidden playable characters. Every time you die you’ll even get a mad-lib of AVGN lines strung together at random. Not to mention that most of the dialogue, enemies, areas, and bosses are references either from the web series or straight from the retro games themselves. Going out of your way might just net you some goodies conveniently placed next to cameos by other internet personalities. These levels are mostly linear but do have some branching and secret paths. So after the tutorial stage you get eight levels to pick from and beat in any order you’d like. I only beat the game on the first two difficulties myself, but beating old school will unlock a harder mode and beating THAT will unlock an even HARDER mode and beating THAT will unlock YET ANOTHER even HARDER mode! You’d have to be a fuckin’ nerd to keep playing this… The checkpoints are still there but they are invisible and you can’t save in this mode either. On old school you still have 3 beers of health but only 15 lives, 5 continues, and your foes might just be a bit burlier this time around. On normal you’ll have 30 lives but unlimited continues with only 3 beers of health while enemies are of standard durability. Playing on easy will give you infinite lives and six bears of health as well as make the enemies and bosses a bit weaker. ![]() ![]() Depending on the difficulty you choose, there may or may not be Nintoasters about the stages as checkpoints. You can get life insurance in the form of the Nerd’s disembodied head. Your health is represented by beer bottles, which can be collected to refill it as well. ![]() You can also pick up a Super Scope that shoots more powerful pellets than the Zapper but is lost upon taking damage. Super Mecha Death Christ only has a single use but it will clear the entire screen of enemies. The glitch gremlin temporarily freezes everything on the screen while sending the audio and visuals into a panic. Rocks are tossed in an arc in front of you to damage enemies. You also can get some consumable items along the way. You can fire in eight directions and if you hold down a certain button you can lock yourself in place to fire at all angles without moving. You play as AVGN himself, who has the ability to move, jump, do a pitiful crouch, and wields an NES Zapper that shoots REAL projectiles. Are you a bad enough nerd to get the references? It’s up to you to explore these strange worlds, fight the menacing bosses, and hopefully rescue your friends along the way, as you try your best to escape the living nightmare of ass that is this game. The Nerd and his friends are playing a shitty game when all of the sudden they get sucked into the TV to a place called Game Land. Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures is a retro-style 2D platformer based on the popular internet show and titular character The Angry Video Game Nerd. ![]()
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