I wish I had made Katawa Crash

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This post is already way too much about me and way too little about the story, so how about we take that narcissism as far as we can and see what happens? I’m sad. I can’t get keyboard-controlled Flash games to work on my PC right now. After 10-20 seconds, the controls just stop working. That means I can’t play Rokko Chan or Abobo’s Big Adventure (being played right now on our live stream) for more than a few seconds past their title screens. If you can help me fix that, let me know. 

In the meantime, I’ve been playing a hell of a lot of Ultimate Flirt Off! and the game that I’m supposed to be writing about right now — Katawa Crash. It’s a simple “aim and shoot” affair that works more like a random event generator and less like a interactive “game”, but it’s still endlessly fun.

It all starts when you launch a sad man into the air. From there, the man hits various anime, manga, and videogame characters (including a few I actually recognize, like Shinji’s Dad from Evangelion and Chie from Persona 4). Depending on what angle, speed, height that he hits them at, various things may happen. Sometimes it’s Tecmo Bowl things. Sometimes it’s Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 things. Other times, it’s barely anything at all. Regardless of what happens, this game constantly has me on the edge of my seat. It’s basically what I wanted the TtWaV music video to be, but in Flash game form.

Check it out for yourself. I also threw some videos of the game’s more amazing events after the jump if you’re curious. Thanks Mario2Man!


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Destructoid Contributor - Jonathan Holmes has been a media star since the Road Rules days, and spends his time covering oddities and indies for Destructoid, with over a decade of industry experience "Where do dreams end and reality begin? Videogames, I suppose."- Gainax, FLCL Vol. 1 "The beach, the trees, even the clouds in the sky... everything is build from little tiny pieces of stuff. Just like in a Gameboy game... a nice tight little world... and all its inhabitants... made out of little building blocks... Why can't these little pixels be the building blocks for love..? For loss... for understanding"- James Kochalka, Reinventing Everything part 1 "I wonder if James Kolchalka has played Mother 3 yet?" Jonathan Holmes
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