[RoN_Rancor]

I got to play the Munch's Oddysee demo today at the mall. It was fun and answered a lot of my personal questions about gameplay. I will describe it in case you haven't gotten to play it. The demo was short and small and was obviously created to familiarize the player with the control setup. Munch and abe each had a set of humshrubs that they had to collect for you to beat the game. I went through different parts of the level with each character collecting humshrubs. I played around with the controls and learned some interesting things. The gamespeak is controlled with three buttons. One button is used to greet others (hi/hello/all o ya/ect.) Another button is a command to attack. The third gamespeak button caused munch and abe to either say "wait" or had munch burp or abe fart. Health is represented by birds around the character's heads, and can be viewed by pressing one of the triggers. The A button let abe or munch jump or pull a lever. Pressing the other trigger causes abe to chant or munch to send out what looks like an emp wave around him. When you press the right joystick like a button, abe punchs/kicks/slaps and Munch has little sparks come out of his head (will probably used for zap). The left joystick moves abe and munch. The harder you press the joystick, the faster he goes. The d-pad moves the camera. One of the black/white buttons (can't remember which) changes between abe and munch and the other centers the camera behind your character. The only problem I had with the controls is that it was hard to sneak without accidently starting to walk. I discovered that it took two hits on a mine to kill abe. I was able to use three vendos: expresso, bounce, and Klimb. No surprises in what they do However, when you use klimb, you just walk straight up (I thought that it would look like the muds climbing in the beginning of AE, but was wrong.) Munch can barely jump at all on land (he kind of just rolls over) but can jump to great heights when in the water. There were no enemies or any other characters at all in the demo, and abe and munch never got into the same area together.

Have you played this demo? What did you think? I liked it, but it was really short. I can't take it anymore! I want the complete version!! AHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...