Weebhunter3000
The Bee W Sea
Recently I completed an old PS1 platformer called Ape Escape (Rape Escape). I wanted to hate this game at first but I failed five minutes in after hearing the first level music.
The story goes like this: a white monkey obtains a helmet that increases his IQ, and he becomes an Ape Supremacist. Personally, I don’t really care. The game’s characters are anime style unfortunately, but it luckily didn’t have any stupid Japanese humor, and it takes itself seriously, which was a good surprise.
The game is a platformer where instead of collecting stars or gems, you collect monkeys. What makes it stand out amongst the billions of platformers is that the collectibles do whatever they can to not be collected. Some wield machine guns and try to kill you, and others will have to be captured by beating the living shit out of them. You have multiple different gadgets to make your job easier, so you can approach situations through a variety of different methods.
The art style and environments are some of the most creative from that era. You go inside a whale, China, and massive castles, for example.
The only real issue I have with the game is the controls feel very tanky. The camera can only be adjusted via the R1 button, but the way you use gadgets requires the use of the right analog stick, so I guess it can be excused.
In the end, I’d give it a 9/10 for innovating the platformer genre (even though no one has borrowed from it’s mechanics and try to copy Super Soyrio over and over).
They also made two sequels but we don’t talk about those ones.
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