Mushroom Men: Rise of the Fungi

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  • Summary: Mushroom Men gives players the opportunity to jump into the fantastic microcosm that is the backyard battlefield. Take control of the crusade, creating devastating weapons from everyday items and teaming up with other sentient plant forms that'll leave the enemy sliced and diced. Let theMushroom Men gives players the opportunity to jump into the fantastic microcosm that is the backyard battlefield. Take control of the crusade, creating devastating weapons from everyday items and teaming up with other sentient plant forms that'll leave the enemy sliced and diced. Let the stylus be your rapier and the Wii Remote your bazooka as you cut down the multitude of household pests that threaten our very existence! [Gamecock Media]… Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 16
  3. Negative: 9 out of 16
  1. Zentendo
    60
    Mushroom Men: Rise of the Fungi is a decent platformer that tries a little to hard to put as many features as possible into the game and ends up over complicating itself. A few odd design and control choices hamper the moody and unique atmosphere and pales in comparison to its console counterpart.
  2. IGN
    51
    Rise of the Fungi is unique and building scav is rewarding, but the awkward combat and cheap kills sour the experience.
  3. Worth Playing
    50
    Mushroom Men: Rise of the Fungi for the NDS had some potential to be an interesting title and provided some neat concepts, but unfortunately, it stumbles in the execution. The controls are very clunky, and the unfair deaths due to poor platforming make it very difficult to enjoy this title.
  4. GameSpot
    45
    Like a poisonous mushroom, Rise of the Fungi looks good but makes you feel bad.
  5. GameSpy
    40
    If there's a sequel, maybe the developers will spend as much time fleshing out the game as they did their concept art.
  6. GamesRadar+
    40
    The worst thing is, there was tremendous potential here. The art style is fantastic, and the campy, B-movie concept is golden. And the way you make new weapons out of garbage you find – sticks, needles, broken shards of glass – is really fun. But once you add the gameplay in there, ugggh. Mushrooms grow where living things have died – in this case, the underlying corpse belonged to fun.
  7. Gaming Target
    30
    Having a platformer that punishes players for missing jumps would be fine if determining where a jump begins is clear or even grappling areas, but that's not the case here. Couple that with the combat system that has frequent problems registering hits and you have one frustrating to play game.

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#40 Most Shared DS Game of 2008