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American Hero: Lost FMV Disaster - Just Bad Games

This is "American Hero: Lost FMV Disaster - Just Bad Games" by Rerez on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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darkest hour

Loved this episode! I like FMV games and I even bought Corpse Killer, Double Switch and Night Trap on PS4 but somehow I never heard of this game before, looks bonkers crazy in a good way and i'll definitely be buying it ASAP. The game it most reminds me of is one that I think would make for a great episodes of Just Bad Games- National Lampoon's Blind Date on PC, the gameplay is VERY similar to AH with the multiple choice thing in that the only real gameplay you get is picking multiple choices, many of which lead to failure resulting in a lot of trial and error(thankfully unlike AH you can actually skip cutscenes and you can actually save and there's an auto-save half-way through) basically you have to try and say the right lines to this woman you meet at a bar so you can go to her house and then you have to convince her to sleep with you, unlike in AH your character isn't voiced and remains unseen but like AH you often get a bunch of random answers that don't make sense and it's a crap-shoot as to whether or not you get the right one, many of the answers are bad jokes and it's down to luck whether or not you get the right one so expect to save a lot. There's a few branching paths where you can meet other characters but ultimately it always narrows down. There's a mood satisfaction meter in the game that goes up and down depending on what answers you give and if it goes too low you fail. I'd LOVE to see you guys cover Blind Date cause hoo boy I felt the same frustration playing that game and trying to get the good ending that you had with AH. Except I don't think it's possible to get the good ending to this one as i've tried EVERY conceivable path and option and didn't get the ending that I saw advertised on a Trimark VHS tape where Sandi asks you if you want to sleep with all three of them(Her and her two roomates) this game does not have nudity like AH but it does have a lot of double-entendres and cheesy 90s dialogue. Like AH there's some static glitches in the game, in this case some answers can't be read and are glitched out and I thought that had something to do with me not being able to get the good ending, at first I thought that was a problem with the emulation, but after seeing this review i'm thinking maybe that's just how the game is and it was released in an unfinished state. It wouldn't surprise me given how barely anyone has talked about it since it came out. The main difference in this game from AH is it tries to incorporate some elements like money(which you can use to pay for certain things at various points in the games like bribing Sandi's annoying roommate)and liquor(if you drink too much you'll fail)and that there's a quiz later on that took me quite a while to figure out all the correct answers, because unlike most games you don't know exactly which answers you got right immediately after you pick an answer, even after the quiz is over you still aren't told exactly how many answers you got right, it's just general vague statements like "you did pretty well" or "you did poorly". The game is legit funny at times and there are some weird failure scenes so it's not a total waste of time, but it definitely does not live up to its full potential and it's easy to see why almost nobody has talked about this game since it came out and why barely anyone reviewed it. you can emulate the game on here if you're interested:old-games.com/getfile/19118