Bad Mojo: The Roach Game

Pulse Entertainment

Adventure

Bad Mojo

A wonderful game. You are a rather geeky entemologist who is making off with some cash only to be turned into a roach by a magical locket. The items that really made this game so nice barely overcome the games one major flaw ... it runs under Windows 3.x. Wonderful cut scenes, insightful flashbacks and amazingly rendered screen shots to explore as a lowly roach make the game exciting and enjoyable throughout. The plot is easy to get into and has a gritty, realistic feel to it that I enjoyed. Despite the fact that Windows gave me GPFs and locked up quite often, it wasn't a total loss. I recomend this game, but save often and restart windows after every save and you will have a much more enjoyable time.

Quintin Stone

Bad Mojo gets points just for its very original premise. That, coupled with the stunning graphics, backgrounds, layouts, tricks, traps, puzzles, and overall weirdness, makes this a wonderous game to play. See the world as the roach sees it: crawl through generations of accumulated dirt and grime, scurry through the innards of household appliances, battle rats, cats, and vacuum cleaners.

The animated cut scenes were also interesting, though usually rather odd, and loaded with second-rate acting, but that seems to be what we've come to expect from computer game cut scenes. And the puzzles were intriguing mind-benders.

One of my problems with The Roach Game was the overall lack of direction that transcended it. Okay, a magic locket turned you into a roach... you are getting told to solve certain problems by a mystical, ghostly babe... but what exactly are you trying to accomplish? Obviously you don't want to be a bug anymore, but how do you change that? I felt like I was stumbling blindly from one puzzle to the next, in a disappointing linear fashion.

My only other concern was the limited interaction with your environment. Sure, you're just a roach, and realistically, what can a roach do? But it still made it frustrating when I thought I should be able to push or affect something and I couldn't.

Overall, a well done game. The controls were so simple and easy to get used to, that moving about was a snap. The background graphics were realistic in wondeful and sometimes horrific ways. Everyone should play, if not buy, this game.