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IGN Review of Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood!
Do you appreciate a game that raises your blood pressure? A boss fight that makes your heart pound? A score screen that leaves you with shaking, sweaty hands? Then Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood! was designed with you in mind.
Starring the lovable demon penguin Prinny (popularized by the Disgaea series), Prinny 2 tasks the nervous hero with recovering a pair of stolen panties before Master Etna executes him or worse, cuts his salary. His journey is a tumultuous one, filled with terrible, tragic deaths.
The gameplay here is basic platforming as Prinny runs from one end of a stage to the other, facing a boss at the end. He can dash, slash stuff with his knives, and perform his "hip pound" move that sends him down on an enemy's head to stun it into submission.
The challenge comes, first and foremost, from the jumping mechanics: you can't adjust Prinny's position in the air during a jump. The star penguin can execute a second jump in the air, but both jumps have set arcs and can't be cancelled once they've begun. Every jump you make in Prinny 2 has to work, or else you'll collide with an enemy or fall down a pit.
On the normal difficulty setting, Prinny will explode if he touches an enemy more than twice. But if this happens during a jump, he'll be stunned and drop downwards, which can be deadly if he was in the process of sailing over a cliff.
Prinny 2 isn't so much a "pleasant challenge" as encouragement to rip your hair out. It requires immense patience, precision, and good memorization. I'm a fairly dedicated gamer and I almost hurled my PSP across the room in frustration.
All these dangers might lead you to believe that Prinny 2 is unfair, but it's not. Almost everything in Prinny 2 follows a strict pattern. Environmental hazards, normal enemies, boss battles -- all these things can be learned over time. Memorizing the patterns doesn't make it easy, but it can be the only way to best a challenge that seems impossible on the first try.
If you're already tremblin' in your boots at the thought of such challenge, there's a new "baby mode" difficulty setting. In baby mode, there are safety blocks that cover up certain pits, and Prinny can collect diapers mid-level to refill his health. Hilarious, and helpful!
While hip pounding, slashing, and collecting sweets, you can also build up Prinny's combo meter. Filling it will activate another new addition to Prinny 2: break mode. While in break mode, Prinny's attacks are more powerful and this power can be maintained as long as you keep the depleting combo meter filled up. This trick's not only fun to try out but it's a life-saver during boss battles.
One of the best things about Prinny 2 is how the level select system works. At the start of the game, there are six levels you can choose from. After each stage, night draws closer and the stages get more difficult to complete. This means there are several variations to each stage depending on what order you opt to play them in.
If this isn't enough to keep you satisfied, Prinny 2 also has an Asagi Wars campaign which can be unlocked after beating the game and fulfilling a set of conditions (or downloading the unlock code off the PlayStation Network). In Asagi Wars, the gameplay is changed dramatically as you control the heroine Asagi and use a bunch of different guns. This lengthy campaign gives gamers even more for their purchase/rental.
Of course, what would an NIS-developed game be without quirky humor? The odd characters, bizarre scenarios and whimsical music you'd expect from the company are all here to enjoy, which certainly helps soothe away the frustration of dying hundreds of times.
©2011-01-18, IGN Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Starring the lovable demon penguin Prinny (popularized by the Disgaea series), Prinny 2 tasks the nervous hero with recovering a pair of stolen panties before Master Etna executes him or worse, cuts his salary. His journey is a tumultuous one, filled with terrible, tragic deaths.
The gameplay here is basic platforming as Prinny runs from one end of a stage to the other, facing a boss at the end. He can dash, slash stuff with his knives, and perform his "hip pound" move that sends him down on an enemy's head to stun it into submission.
The challenge comes, first and foremost, from the jumping mechanics: you can't adjust Prinny's position in the air during a jump. The star penguin can execute a second jump in the air, but both jumps have set arcs and can't be cancelled once they've begun. Every jump you make in Prinny 2 has to work, or else you'll collide with an enemy or fall down a pit.
On the normal difficulty setting, Prinny will explode if he touches an enemy more than twice. But if this happens during a jump, he'll be stunned and drop downwards, which can be deadly if he was in the process of sailing over a cliff.
Prinny 2 isn't so much a "pleasant challenge" as encouragement to rip your hair out. It requires immense patience, precision, and good memorization. I'm a fairly dedicated gamer and I almost hurled my PSP across the room in frustration.
All these dangers might lead you to believe that Prinny 2 is unfair, but it's not. Almost everything in Prinny 2 follows a strict pattern. Environmental hazards, normal enemies, boss battles -- all these things can be learned over time. Memorizing the patterns doesn't make it easy, but it can be the only way to best a challenge that seems impossible on the first try.
If you're already tremblin' in your boots at the thought of such challenge, there's a new "baby mode" difficulty setting. In baby mode, there are safety blocks that cover up certain pits, and Prinny can collect diapers mid-level to refill his health. Hilarious, and helpful!
While hip pounding, slashing, and collecting sweets, you can also build up Prinny's combo meter. Filling it will activate another new addition to Prinny 2: break mode. While in break mode, Prinny's attacks are more powerful and this power can be maintained as long as you keep the depleting combo meter filled up. This trick's not only fun to try out but it's a life-saver during boss battles.
One of the best things about Prinny 2 is how the level select system works. At the start of the game, there are six levels you can choose from. After each stage, night draws closer and the stages get more difficult to complete. This means there are several variations to each stage depending on what order you opt to play them in.
If this isn't enough to keep you satisfied, Prinny 2 also has an Asagi Wars campaign which can be unlocked after beating the game and fulfilling a set of conditions (or downloading the unlock code off the PlayStation Network). In Asagi Wars, the gameplay is changed dramatically as you control the heroine Asagi and use a bunch of different guns. This lengthy campaign gives gamers even more for their purchase/rental.
Of course, what would an NIS-developed game be without quirky humor? The odd characters, bizarre scenarios and whimsical music you'd expect from the company are all here to enjoy, which certainly helps soothe away the frustration of dying hundreds of times.
©2011-01-18, IGN Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved