You control our titular characters in a sidescrolling…platformer…type game?  It’s not really either one, though, because there really aren’t platforms for you to jump on but rather you jumping over an INSANE amount of obstacles.  Everything is out to do you harm so you’re just constantly jumping/ducking to survive.  All the while you’re collecting money for you to use at the end to buy GWAR tickets, so you better start saving at the beginning.  There are health pickups to help mitigate the damage you take but if you have too much health, you and Beavis [or Butthead] crumple over and have to use the restroom.  There aren’t that many levels but they go on forever just because you’re constantly stopping to avoid death from every direction.  I can’t stress that enough!

Visuals:

The main characters don’t look bad, really.  You can tell they spent time on making Beavis and Butthead look and animate like their TV show counterparts.  It’s just everything else in the world looks bland as fuck.  The enemies are repetitive per level and the levels themselves are just a scrolling tapestry with there being no real landmarks for you to establish yourself.  At random moments you’ll get little talking head moments of them either insulting each other or saying something was cool.  It truly is random because I could not duplicate it at similar instances.  The shitting scene is pretty funny and a nice gag at having TOO much health.

Audio:

The audio samples and the Game Gear rendition of the opening song aren’t bad.  The rest of the audio is terrible.  The songs will loop on for way too long thanks to the length of the levels.  The enemies don’t really utter any noises whatsoever, but the pain they inflict on the main characters happens so so often which how many of them there are.

Completion:

I couldn’t finish the game on my playthrough.  Even though I was collecting all the money I found, I either didn’t find enough or the stuff I spent at the beginning [not knowing I had to save] caused me to not be able to afford the tickets to GWAR.  I got to the last stage and the bouncer killed me and gave me a Game Over screen.  Fuck that.  At least the Game Over screen had Beavis and Butthead fighting each other in a mud pit but what a terrible ending to a game.  

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It’s Star Wars. A 2-D run and gun game. On the Game Gear. From 1993. That’s about all there is to say for it. Story follows the beats. It plays like a handheld game from that era. It sounds like one from that era. You do get some good cutscenes. I’m going to skip the other points of topic and go straight to completion.

Completion:

I FINISHED THIS GAME! This game sucks to finish. It’s hard. Difficult to see what you have to do. Suxs to play. You die quickly. And their isn’t a fucking ending at all. Well, there are three of them depending on who you find. Still. This game SUXS.

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