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Mullet Mad Jack review: a simple and ultra-stylish corridor crashAscend a tower with the power of guns, hair and anime
Ascend a tower with the power of guns, hair and anime
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hammer95/Epopeia Games
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hammer95/Epopeia Games
The timer sits in Jack’s left hand, also displaying a Doom-esque portrait of him that oscillates between smug ciggy poking out of curled lips if you’re blasting well, to pained grimace if time’s almost up. In your right hand is a revolver, capable of exacting the most basic death on the earliest robo-grunts. Then you charge - you just fully motor through corridors. You career through doors, kicking them open automatically with a bash that sends robots on the other side flying into walls. Aside from time-saving headshots, you’re rewarded for kicking baddies into electrical hazards or blending them in fans. Occasionally you can pick up knives lodged in tables, and clunk them into metallic skulls for even more of a bonus.
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hammer95/Epopeia Games
It’s during these bloody sprints that you appreciate the retro-anime art style, all buzzy and vibrant, and adding a lot of blinking garnish to the gore you’re cooking up. Incredibly, the big numbers and flashes rarely ever make things unclear, meaning you’re easily able to enter a rather beautiful flowstate.
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hammer95/Epopeia Games
Despite bosses adding some spice to scuffles, I wouldn’t say there are all that many enemy types in general. There’s a lot of robo henchmen, some drones, those that scuttle… and that’s about it. The challenge truly lies in navigating the environment quickly, where most enemies tumble down in a shot or two anyway. So, in a sense, they all die fast and it doesn’t matter all that much! But then again, they all die in a very similar way: you aim, you click, they explode. Perhaps instead of lots of different enemy types, it would’ve been interesting to see thewayyou kill the drones and henchman shifted to match the environment’s tweaks.
Still, that’s a small gripe of mine in an otherwise fun and frantic FPS. Mullet Mad Jack ia a simple, stylised crash through a lot of corridors and even if it’s not going to blow you away, I’d absolutely recommend it to anyone who enjoys speed with their violence. There’s additional difficulties if you’re after a challenge and an Endless mode, too, if you want to see how high you can climb against random enemies and stage layouts. Mullets are very much in.
