Review anarchistica 1/5 · Mar 17, 2018
Creative but bad
The nicest thing you can say about The Big Elk is that it's creative. Ducks are its currency, you fight christmas trees and you can place your own resource-generating structures. Unfortunately, pretty much everything about the game is wrong. Long levels that have to be replayed from the start if you die. Constant ammo shortages. Awful hitboxes and aiming. And …
Read moreThe nicest thing you can say about The Big Elk is that it's creative. Ducks are its currency, you fight christmas trees and you can place your own resource-generating structures. Unfortunately, pretty much everything about the game is wrong. Long levels that have to be replayed from the start if you die. Constant ammo shortages. Awful hitboxes and aiming. And there's no clear purpose to anything. It's nice that they tried something different, but a game still has to be fun and players still have to know what they're doing.
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