Chex Quest (1997)

After watching the AVGN episode on chex quest, (for a second time) I figured I might as well play this game. Did you know that family friendly DooM clones aside from Super Noah's Ark 3d exist? Me neither. Anyway, this game was packaged with select boxes of Rice Chex cereal. I'm not a yank so I never heard of this cereal, instead I know malt wheat cereal, or what I assume is similar to it. Moving on, I think for a family friendly DooM clone the attention to detail is awesome. DoomGuy's mug at the bottom of the screen is replaced by the Chex Man's, health pickups are related to nutritious breakfast items, and the demons are replaced by aliens known as 'flemoids'. Instead of murdering those fuckers, you instead 'zorch' (teleporting them away to some random place) them. The weapon variety is pretty cool, and there are tons of neat little secrets. On to some negatives, the lack of mouse look isn't awful, but it takes some getting used to. The final boss is massively underwhelming, the Icon Of Sin parody is funny, but you can just hide and shoot him multiple times. The game isn't very challenging either, but it feels so because of the odd controls. The way you pick up ammo for a specific weapon is a little annoying, but passable. I'd recommend playing the Chex Quest 3 version at one of the developer's personal website. (don't fret, the game includes improved versions of Chex Quest 1, 2, and 3 but is titled 3). Overall I'd give this an 8/10 'great experience' rating, it's aged quite well and is almost as good as DOOM 1993 but is just as memorable. Some old mechanics/controls hold it back, but it's nothing GZdoom won't fix. Kupo out.