Rain on Your Parade’s 50-level romp feels like it’s over too soon, but it doesn’t end after the credits roll. 'Metal Gear Solid' is among the game's many send-ups. The game’s rare spikes in difficulty often combine with unforgiving level design, often-odd mechanics, and janky camera angles these don’t help when you’re trying to dodge multiple rockets in search of a flawless escape, or remain undetected during a daring raid, but you keep trying because the game never feels genuinely unfair. While it’s a family-friendly game with its fair share of blink-and-miss-it levels, Rain on Your Parade also delivers some true tests for adept gamers. Occasionally, the gameplay takes a break from star-earning challenges to let you just enjoy yourself, whether that’s painting, petting a dog, or playing a surprisingly engrossing bowling game, which I’ve already earmarked for a multiplayer tournament in the future.
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It’s fun in the purest sense, and this is reflected in a series of non-levels. Every new stage is impossible to predict, and the core mechanics you’re offered–rain, thunder, tornado, and snow–are cleverly and carefully deployed. While those aforementioned game influences pop up throughout the action– Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Counter-Strike, Breakout, and even Katamari Damacy all get nods, while Zelda fans get a truly inspired game within a game–these are used these to get the very most from your limited skillset. Those willing to forgive Rain On Your Parade’s rough edges will find a lot to enjoy though, especially at its well judged price-point.Tornado is one of four core skills you pick up along the way.
The lack of a two player mode also seems odd considering the title’s chaotic nature. This does occasionally ruin the flow of things, meaning it’s a tough game to completely recommend. Sometimes across the fifty levels there’s a stage that feels a bit too messy though, and has objectives that are just a little too unclear. It has a winning sense of humour, and although it’s sometimes a bit too knowing it’s certainly never dull.įrom the nonsensical plotting – your quest involves finding the ‘mythical’ land of Seattle – to bizarre flourishes such as raining bread to feed a band of pigeons, you never quite know what’s going to be thrown your way next. Rain On Your Parade is always keen to offer up more of an experience than a challenge.Īnd on that score it’s relatively successful. The controls are incredibly simple, and the difficulty level is never particularly severe. Completing some of these is essential to completing the level and progressing to the next.īeing a cloud your main power is to rain on people, but you also unlock further abilities as you progress such as using different liquids (mind out of the gutter please) to summoning bolts of lightning. There are a range of locations – from city streets under zombie invasion to school corridors – and in each you are asked to fulfil a number of objectives.
You are asked to float around a range of self-contained stages causing weather related havoc. Rain On Your Parade has you playing as a cloud.
Because when it does that, it shines the brightest. Sometimes it hits you over the head a bit too much with pastiche and parody, when it should just focus on doing its own thing.
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It’s crammed full of references, nudges, and winks to a range of films and games. Rain On Your Parade is desperate to be loved. Sometimes objectives can be clumsy and unclear
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