Pasta Master

Posted by Derek Yu Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:29:00 GMT

Pasta Master

JinxTengu’s Pasta Master (aka Paster Master, aka Mr. Pasta) is kind of the gaming equivalent of that scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark where people’s faces melt off. Yes, that one. Except it makes a lot less sense.

In the game, you play Mr. Mingo, an amateur magician and pasta restauranteur. Things are going well for him until demons from hell turn a bowl of his pasta into an inter-dimensional gateway. Now, disembodied and pissed off, Mr. Mingo must use his magic hat to drive back the demons and rescue his restaurant from “the clutches of evil incarnate,” aka Evil Boris! Oooookay!

As an arena shoot ‘em up, Pasta Master isn’t particularly unique with regards to game mechanics… but then again, it doesn’t really have to be. Use the arrow keys to move and aim/shoot with the mouse (no WASD controls, unfortunately). The number in the lower-right corner signifies the strength of your beams, and it depletes when you’re shooting (and charges when you’re not). There are two power-ups you can collect in the game – a bottle of ketchup that destroys all the enemies on the screen, and a protective bubble that’s good for one hit.

Yeah, this is a challenging and bizarre game that offers probably the most frightening food-based horror since Burgertime. I like that it genuinely gets scarier the further you get into the game. If there’s a Hell, it looks like this. That fire and brimstone stuff is just weak in comparison.

Note: This is the first of JinxTengu’s games that he has personally rated 5 stars.

(Thanks, Etienne!)

TIGdb: Entry for Pasta Master

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  1. Stwelin said about 1 hour later:

    Very… hmmm.. nope. don’t even have the words. Interesting, i guess.

    I wish the animations for other monsters had been paid as much attention to as the pasta-sauce golem thing, it’s rather fluid comparatively.

  2. BeamSplashX said about 1 hour later:

    I think I’m going to vomit. I don’t know if it’s in delight or otherworldly anguish yet.

  3. Mentalpatient109 said about 2 hours later:

    I adore this game. It’s the little touches (Such as the dog walking the human) that make it truly great. JinxTengu is the new MrKubus.

  4. Butzo said about 2 hours later:

    You can enter the ceiling in the beginning.

  5. Tim said about 2 hours later:

    boss fight:

    http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/4404/pasta2avb1.png

    also, if you make it to the end of the ceiling you’d find an extra bonus game called atomic kitty:

    http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/6106/pasta2bxl6.png

  6. Dorko905 said about 11 hours later:

    great boss

  7. moi said about 12 hours later:

    WASD controls suck, how many times do I have to repeat that?

  8. Quetz said about 13 hours later:

    Butzo? Butzopower?

    WASD controls are superior if you’re right handed.

  9. Pnx said about 20 hours later:

    As a devout pastafarian I find this game offensive as it subtly makes a mockery of my religion. THE FSM IS NOT A JOKE!

  10. Pretzelking said 2 days later:

    I had enough of this kind of fucking scary, yet still entertaining weirdness when I played Revenge Of the Sunfish. I don’t think I will play this, for my own sake.

  11. Quetz said 3 days later:

    Oh man, I forgot about that game. I’m gonna play it again.

  12. Pretzelking said 3 days later:

    Well, yesterday I decided to try it anyway, against my better judgement. Fucking awesome in the same way that Revenge Of the Sunfish was awesome. The secret game is awesome, too.

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