Vidiot Game (XBLIG)

Hit it or Quit it?

Year: 2012 -- Developer: GZ Games -- Publisher: XBLIG

First Impression:
The name definitely makes a first impression.  Vidiot?  Isn't that an 80s term for someone who watches too much TV or something?  The "icon" picture looks 8-bit and 80s-ish.. and creepy.  Past that, the XBOX is still not really loading any info.  I swear it's supposed to.  Some of the other icon images aren't even loading on the game selection screen. I think something is wrong, but whatever.  As long as the game plays, I guess I don't need a first impression.  Still a little odd/frustrating though...

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Fooled around for: 7 minutes (XBLIG Time Limit)
....wtf.  I'm not even entirely sure what I just played was a game.. or a completed game, at least.  Considering the title, and the game icon, I'm guessing this is just the way it's supposed to be, but it was.. odd.  The whole game is ugly as hell, by design (presumably).  There are built-in graphical glitches, and the colors are nasty and mismatched.  The music is 8-bit and annoying.

Overall, the whole game just doesn't make sense.  It's almost trying to be a mini-game game.. except from one screen to the next, you are left with "What the hell was that..and what the hell is this..!?".  You start by building a character that may or may not matter.  You pick a few basic details that I'm not sure end up actually affecting the "game" because the game consists of things like scratching a lottery ticket that you do or don't win, coming across a foe that you just choose one of three choices, and seem to end up with a random answer, and all kinds of crazy garbage.  What you do doesn't seem to matter, but maybe it does. Maybe there is a way to "win" but if there is, you only know it because you have played it enough to get it wrong and remember what you did.  Past that, it just feels like the ROM got corrupted and the game doesn't even know what it's doing.

Imagine this, except the text is wobbling and you can barely read it.

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Hit it or Quit it? (80 MSP)
Since I believe this game was built to cause that "wtf" effect, it certainly accomplished that.  The problem is, I can tell if it did that instead of having a real "game" in there.  It's actually kind of a relief to find an XBLIG game that I will quit, just so I know my dollar isn't worthless, but at the same time, it is "only a buck".. and maybe there is something to this game that I just don't "get" yet.  I'm going to err on the side of "no" though, and quit.  I'd really just rather play something that makes more sense.  Or any sense, for that matter.

This.