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A while ago I remember a game that was very popular in my circle of friends for a while when I was a kid in the elementary school, and that game is Deer Avenger 4: The Rednecks Strike Back, a Deer Hunter parody.
Our hero is Bambo the Deer, a wisecracking, muscular, bipedal deer wearing camo trousers and a bandana around his head that hunts human hunters (most of them redneck types). It's not a furry game, don't worry. You walk around four different stages that are supposed to be set in various American states: a forest of Idaho, a trailer park of Pennsylvania, a vast tundra of Wisconsin, and farm fields of West Virginia. Upon entering one of the stages, you walk around and try to lure hunters out by throwing lures (like spray cheese or pornographic VHS tapes) or yelling stuff that's appealing to rednecks (like free tickets to a second-rate football match, Donald Trump's lost wallet, or a guide to every loophole in laws against incest). Once a hunter (or two) come out, the music changes, and you have to find and kill them.
There are 12 different hunters (a few women in there, too) and they come equipped with different weapons and funny quotes. I appreciate the diversity, although it's not deep. After killing a hunter, you can choose to return to your cave (equipped with a big TV screen and stuffed hunter trophy heads) or you can keep hunting until you kill 4 hunters. The more hunters you kill in one go, the more skill points you get to improve Bambo's skills like accuracy or speed.
You're probably asking, "Yeah, yeah, but is there any toilet humor?" You bet! There are four special abilities at your disposal which can be activated upon picking up items that are randomly scattered all around the stages: a brown item-seeking fart, a green hunter-seeking fart, a big fart explosion that hurts the hunters, and a rocket fart that makes you fly fast for a while. One of the skills you can invest your hard-earned points in is called "Fart Power".
Now, the bad stuff. The game is very easy and it poses hardly any challenge. Sure, the hunters can kill you in a few hits if you're not careful, but as far as I can see there are no significant differences in hunters' behavior and you can cheese through the game with this simple tactic: throw a lure in front of a bush, enter the bush and wait for a hunter, quickly shoot him/her as he/she is picking the lure up. There are more than enough bushes in the game. If you don't want to do that, then it's just primitive "run up to them and shoot them". I wish there were some traps in the game or something like that.
Furthermore, two of the available stages are just too big and that doesn't mix well with the simplistic gameplay mechanics. I literally spent 15 minutes just walking through the empty tundra of Wisconsin in search of a hunter and it was not fun at all, I got physically sick of hearing the short loop of banjo music that plays when a hunter is on the prowl.
All in all, I'd say this is a perfectly mediocre game. There's enough care and effort put into this game that I can't write this off as shovelware, I just wish the whole game could've been developed more because there's a lot of potential buried here. Anyway, it can still entertain you for an hour or two.
Our hero is Bambo the Deer, a wisecracking, muscular, bipedal deer wearing camo trousers and a bandana around his head that hunts human hunters (most of them redneck types). It's not a furry game, don't worry. You walk around four different stages that are supposed to be set in various American states: a forest of Idaho, a trailer park of Pennsylvania, a vast tundra of Wisconsin, and farm fields of West Virginia. Upon entering one of the stages, you walk around and try to lure hunters out by throwing lures (like spray cheese or pornographic VHS tapes) or yelling stuff that's appealing to rednecks (like free tickets to a second-rate football match, Donald Trump's lost wallet, or a guide to every loophole in laws against incest). Once a hunter (or two) come out, the music changes, and you have to find and kill them.
There are 12 different hunters (a few women in there, too) and they come equipped with different weapons and funny quotes. I appreciate the diversity, although it's not deep. After killing a hunter, you can choose to return to your cave (equipped with a big TV screen and stuffed hunter trophy heads) or you can keep hunting until you kill 4 hunters. The more hunters you kill in one go, the more skill points you get to improve Bambo's skills like accuracy or speed.
You're probably asking, "Yeah, yeah, but is there any toilet humor?" You bet! There are four special abilities at your disposal which can be activated upon picking up items that are randomly scattered all around the stages: a brown item-seeking fart, a green hunter-seeking fart, a big fart explosion that hurts the hunters, and a rocket fart that makes you fly fast for a while. One of the skills you can invest your hard-earned points in is called "Fart Power".
Now, the bad stuff. The game is very easy and it poses hardly any challenge. Sure, the hunters can kill you in a few hits if you're not careful, but as far as I can see there are no significant differences in hunters' behavior and you can cheese through the game with this simple tactic: throw a lure in front of a bush, enter the bush and wait for a hunter, quickly shoot him/her as he/she is picking the lure up. There are more than enough bushes in the game. If you don't want to do that, then it's just primitive "run up to them and shoot them". I wish there were some traps in the game or something like that.
Furthermore, two of the available stages are just too big and that doesn't mix well with the simplistic gameplay mechanics. I literally spent 15 minutes just walking through the empty tundra of Wisconsin in search of a hunter and it was not fun at all, I got physically sick of hearing the short loop of banjo music that plays when a hunter is on the prowl.
All in all, I'd say this is a perfectly mediocre game. There's enough care and effort put into this game that I can't write this off as shovelware, I just wish the whole game could've been developed more because there's a lot of potential buried here. Anyway, it can still entertain you for an hour or two.
P.S. There is one weird thing about the game: our brave protagonist is literally a cuckold. I'm not making that up. One of the short cutscenes you can watch on the cave's TV screen is Bambo walking in on his doe girlfriend/wife in bed with a racoon and a squirrel. Bambo is devastated, complains, and then says "ah alright" and winks at the camera. What the hell is that about?
