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Title: Flock!
Post by: McTaggart on 11 Apr 2009, 22:14

So I saw this review (http://www.avclub.com/articles/flock,26171/) over on AV Club and it has made my day. It's for a new Capcom game, Flock! It's a celebration of cute, silly humour. Basically, you're some alien charged with rounding up and adbucting livestock. Cute livestock. I guess at it's core it's just a fun little puzzle game, but it's all the charm that's around that core that makes such a great experience; from the way everything's made of fabric and how it deforms when you pull or push on it with your tractor beam to the music to the silly jokes (your mothership is called the 'Motherflocker' (tee hee)). It had me sitting there with this stupid grin on my face the whole way through* the expression only leaving to scream "Noooooo!" when I accidently herded a small flock of the poor things off a cliff into the sea.

The game is fun and charming and cheap. Grab the demo off steam/psn/xbla/wherever and give it a shot.

*the demo, which somehow brought back all the memories of playing the worms 2 demo way back when that was current

(http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/1340/flock01.jpg)

Title: Re: Flock!
Post by: JD on 12 Apr 2009, 10:09

Herding them through grain is so irritating augh.

Title: Re: Flock!
Post by: LTK on 12 Apr 2009, 10:43

I played the first two levels of the demo but I found it to become annoying and quit. Herding was too hard for me because the controls didn't exactly do what I wanted them to, so there were plenty of sheep plummeting to their dooms. Who herds sheep on mile-high islands, anyway?

It's still a pretty cute game, though. I think, maybe it's part of the challenge that you don't get to decide where the sheep are going, but still, this is not a game for me,

Title: Re: Flock!
Post by: lprkn on 12 Apr 2009, 23:09

Quote from: LTK on 12 Apr 2009, 10:43

Who herds sheep on mile-high islands, anyway?

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y181/lprkn/th_67394662AtfzDTJj.jpg) (http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y181/lprkn/?action=view&current=67394662AtfzDTJj.jpg)

Title: Re: Flock!
Post by: McTaggart on 12 Apr 2009, 23:39

Once I had it down that they avoid the light on the ground instead of the ship itself it became a lot easier. But yeah, it's a little frustrating that you can't turn your presence off while you move around to the other side of the flock.

Title: Re: Flock!
Post by: MusicScribbles on 14 Apr 2009, 07:46

Quote from: lprkn on 12 Apr 2009, 23:09

Quote from: LTK on 12 Apr 2009, 10:43

Who herds sheep on mile-high islands, anyway?

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y181/lprkn/th_67394662AtfzDTJj.jpg) (http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y181/lprkn/?action=view&current=67394662AtfzDTJj.jpg)

I think this man is trying to say New Zealand.
(http://the-reviewer.net/wp-content/uploads/black-sheep.jpg)

Title: Re: Flock!
Post by: Spluff on 14 Apr 2009, 08:16

Sounds familiar.

(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/gs/puzzle/sheep/sheep_boxshot.jpg)

Title: Re: Flock!
Post by: McTaggart on 14 Apr 2009, 09:04

I think it is fine to make a similar thing to something that must be about ten years old by now. Especially if you do it well.