Being one of those strange freaks of nature that for whom travelling is what other people tend to do, I’ve never really considered a trip to Mexico. San Francisco perhaps but never Mexico. Now I definitely don’t want to go. It’s full of radioactive snakes!
Welcome To Mexico brings back memories for me. A childhood spent consuming platform games can leave one scarred when you’ve endured such titles as Automata’s Drunk Policeman* or any of the myriad of other similar titles that seemed to defy all logic with their rules.
And like Drunk Policeman, Welcome To Mexico makes about as much sense. All the staples of bad early 80’s platform games are present and correct. Shonky unresponsive controls, poor graphics, awkward jumps and odd logic. Why can you walk across small gaps that your character is clearly capable of falling through? Why is it that some jumps don’t appear as if you can make them yet miraculously you can? Why do I find myself falling off platforms because the controls didn’t want to respond to me pressing two directions at once thus wasting my lone pepper? Why is it all so bloody yellow?
And yet, despite clearly being a horrid game in so many ways, there’s something deep inside of me that still has a soft spot for a badly written platform game. Obviously, I’m seriously broken and couldn’t hand on heart recommend this game in any way – but pangs of nostalgia aren’t always logical are they, dear readers?
It’s sort of worth a download for the preposterous plot alone, reading the bizarre diary of your journey through the gameworld made me smile as with each entry it got increasingly silly, mocking itself. It’s not anywhere near enough to salvage the game from mediocrity, but it’d be a dull life indeed if everything was brilliant all the time.
*it should be noted for the record that I don’t actually have an awful scouse slur, just in case anyone truly believes I talk like that or am indeed that stupid.
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