The rest is explained with cut-scenes sprinkled through the game, all of them filled with style. The story of Mushroom Men is quickly explained when starting a new game by a B-movie style video, complete with an organ-filled soundtrack and dramatic-sounding narrator. Pax, one of the surviving Bolete, is sent on a mission to recover a chunk of the meteor after he accidentally absorbed his village’s part. However, as it seems to happen with every organized society on this planet, war eventually happened, leaving the Bolete tribe as the biggest casualty. The mushrooms quickly organized into tribes and prospered for a while, building habitats and tools with discarded human objects. Apparently, they forgot to check at their feet as upon further inspection, they would have noticed that things that were usually inanimate, like mushrooms and plants, have gained sentience, while small mammals, like moles and rabbits, have gone completely insane. Scientists concluded that since it had no effect on humans, it was completely harmless and innocent. Let’s see how its Wii sibling fares.Ī while ago, a meteorite crashed on Earth and brought along a green cloud of dust that spread around. The DS outing was deemed a decent title by my colleague Aaron Sirois. Red Fly Studios and Gamecock both seem to understand this too, as they already released the prequel to the Wii game on the DS under the title Mushroom Men: Rise of the Fungi. After all, if done correctly, this game could lead to a new money-making franchise, as the hero, Pax the Bolete Mushroom, is well-defined and completely likeable. Needless to say, I saw a lot of potential in the saga of mushrooms at war with each others.
After all, I have been raised on this type of games and the genre has remained a favourite of mine ever since. However, it’s when I read that the game would incorporate elements of platformers and action games that I truly started following its development. When I learned that the music would be done by Les Claypool of Primus fame, it gave the title an automatic spot on my watch list. With a premise as original as anything that came out since the start of the decade, Mushroom Men had already piqued my interest when it was first announced months ago. Knowing this, it should come as no surprise that I was eagerly anticipating this game. I guess that some people just don’t like overly quirky games. The look on his face was one of uncertainty, asking if I had invented that storyline on the spot just to mess with him. I told him that I indeed received something new something about a meteorite spreading a dust on Earth that gives life and sentience to things like mushrooms and plants.
One of them recently asked me if anything new had landed into my mailbox. Some of my friends like to be updated frequently about the games I get to review.
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