Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde....Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...
It can't be that bad....can it? I'm here to play, beat (as insane as that is) and give this game a fair review. Lets start off with how I first found this game. Most of you might have never heard of this game, if it might not have been for the AVGN (Angry Video Gaming Nerd) giving a review on how terrible it is. The doing another one going as in depth to the flaws as he could. I saw this, and thought, how can it be so bad, to be honest, I couldn't think a game could be so terrible.

So I came here to play the game. When that music came on, I already imagined me doing those faces the Nerd does (but i can't get close to accurately doing them. But before we get to the game play, lets look at the packaging. Yeah, not bad looking. The text on it says that when your Mr. Hyde, you go into a world of demons, and you kill them with your "secret weapon" the phyco-wave. Sounds pretty cool. And I love how it says, and I quote "The classic tale of horror comes to vivid life in this fast-moving video game!" and "Follow Dr. Jekyll as he fights off enemies in hazardous 19th century London" you'll find out in a bit.

Right off the box, it looks like a good game, now lets play it. The title music sounds very Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, if I didn't know it was copied off another game (or vise versa). And maybe the hand is to do with this demon world we've been hearing. Well, lets go! You'll get a little animation of the Doc walking out of his home....wait, what? He then walks past the door, and exits his house though....the wall? Is a door not good enough? "Oh, I like using the wall to exit buildings" *crash!* That door might just lead to a lab or something.

The story goes like this. Dr. Jekyll is off to marry some bribe that I don't know the name of. And he decides to walk. And boy, does he walk slowly. I got the impression that this was a "fast-moving" game. Well, the next part I was warned about. The cane. The back of the box says "Follow Dr. Jekyll as he fights off enemies in hazardous 19th century London" hazardous: very. Fighting: none to be had! The cane is 99% useless. The only thing you can kill is a bee. And have you tried killing a bee with a cane using a thrust movement? The Doc should give himself a pat on the back. But what puzzles me is, when you kill a bee, it makes a sound like you gained health. But neither of your meters go up, nor do you get any coins.

So your walking slowly (at least not as slowly as the other men that walk there), with a cane that doesn't work. What a disappointment. The hazards are almost unavoidable. There are men that randomly run at you, and knock you over, there's this kid who has a crush on your fiance, and will give you some hell (and also for some very odd reason, he would run to the left, and the appear on the right of the screen...great logic guys -.-), but not as much hell as these bomb guys will give you. What is he? And why does he have bombs? Why do they only affect the Doc, and not buildings or cat or dogs or anything else?!? I think i have a reason. In this Dr. Jekyll world, everyone and everything is bomb-proof, except the Doc. He's got some weird disease that makes him somehow die to these bombs. But then why does this purple fellow run after placing the bomb? Oh well, I'll have to scratch that one. *screws up paper and throws in the bin*
Why are these guys given bombs anyway? Aren't people annoyed about constant explosions?

Man: HEY! Stop setting off those bombs, will you?
Bomberman: I'm doing it to irritate Dr. Jekyll.
Man: In that case I don't mind.

You have two meters. The top one is your life meter, if this drops to zero, you die. The second one is your stress meter, if this drops to zero, you'll turn to Mr. Hyde and finally get into this "world of demons" that we were promised. Don't get too exited. It's not all it's cracked up to be. So your Mr. Hyde. You can move about five times faster that the Doc, and you can punch, which does work. Although if you want things does a little better, use that secret weapon. Use the Physco-Wave! Use it by pressing up and B. It goes in a figure of 8 movement, so it can be hard at first to hit things. As you kill things, your stress meter goes up. And monsters drop coins you can pick up (weather touching or using the Physci-Wave). When your stress meter gets full, you'll faint and become Dr. Jeykll again, with restored health.

However, for the first part, you might have died so fast as the Doc, you'll be hit by lightning when your Mr. Hyde. When you get to the point where the Doc died, you'll die as well. Most people quit this game because of that reason. So get further with the doc means longer play times as Mr. Hyde, although your stress meter will be full by then, and you'll have to play as the Doc . Why does everyone hate Jekyll anyway? What have they got against him? Maybe he only wanted to be loved, and as everyone hates him so, he wanted to get married. Which is what he's doing in this game. I sure hope she doesn't want a divorce, that would just break him...
The graphics are ok, but they are horribly repetitive, and you'll think most of the time that your going in circles. The music is ok as well, but again it's horribly repetitive, and it would be better if there was some different music (only 3 pieces of music, one for the Doc, one for Mr. Hyde, and one for the ending).

Coins, what are coins in this game, some scoring system? No. Coins are used to make that singing lady stop singing! If you have enough, you can give them to her, and she'll shut up. The only way to get coins is through the Mr. Hyde stages. A little cheap, I think. And you have to touch her to give her the coins. But you'll probably become Mr. Hyde before you can get close enough, in which after you get your stress meter up again, she'll disappear.

Now I'm playing this game and I got some game overs. I think the cane not working is a bug, a huge, massive bug that made the downfall of this game. All these things are adding up to a subtract, making it a worse and worse game as I play it....but....something is wrong here. The game is so hateful. All you need to hate it is one minute, and you'll start calling it the worst game created. The nerd said that nothing that is said, nor will ever be said, will be good enough to describe how terrible this game is. But for some reason, this game has some charm. What am I trying to say? I think I like this game. There, I said it -.-

The controls are combined with the difficulty of the game to make it nearly unplayable, but just about playable for you to want to continue playing it. In fact, I like it. Not a lot, it won't be replacing Megaman 2 or Castlevania anytime soon. But I would say this game is not that bad. Not good, but not "truly crappy" either, just not as bad as the Nerd says. And I think that's the best honest opinon it's ever going to get. Take it from me. If you want a challenge, play this game. If you want to see someone vent their anger on a game, let them play this, the amusement level could be high. If your willing to play this game for more than 5 minutes, then maybe you can see the dirty charm this game has.
Oh, and the game is beatable. I made a screen shot for you to see.
All in all, I would give this game a generous 6/10. It's ugly, but has inner beauty. Don't judge a Jekyll by its Hyde.