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Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal Review

I just finished up playing through Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal. Normally, I would never have played this game, but I figured the achievement points would be easy and I an in another Gamerscore Challenge. So, every achievement I can get helps. I was right that a good chunk of the achievements are pretty easy. Just beat the game and they unlock as you play. There are also ones for getting a certain number of kills and gold. Plus the usual find the hidden items ones. The others were for playing multiplayer which I did not end up getting. After completing the game I tried to play online, but there was literally no one else playing it online (I checked every game type twice) so I gave up on that part.

The game itself it aimed at kids, but I had fun playing it at first because I have fond memories of watching Looney Tunes on Saturday mornings as a kid. For the first few levels I had fun playing as all the cartoon characters and using the crazy weapons from the cartoons. After about the fourth level, out of 10, I was tired of the game. It is a button masher in the worst ways. There are a few combos but they are a pain to get. It is easier to just shoot all the enemies or use the primary attack. Plus, the later levels have really annoying jumping puzzles. I hate jumping puzzles. The first few levels jumping puzzles are pretty simple. Just time your jump to miss the fire, hole, or whatever the obstacle is. However, in the last few levels of the game the jumping puzzles have multiple parts that you have to do in a specific order very quick while enemies are shooting at you. A couple of them took me 4 or 5 times to get through.

The other annoying thing towards the end of the game was that they added a couple levels where you drive on a timed course. It was really odd that after 7 or 8 normal levels they through in a couple levels with a completely different play mechanic. The racing levels were not very hard one you figure out to just fold the shooting trigger and accelerator down the whole time. You don’t get going that fast so just gun it and never stop shooting and you can get through these levels pretty easy. Just jump any obstacles and never slow down.

For a kids game the last few levels were pretty difficult. I was playing on easy and with all the jumping puzzles and enemies the last two levels took a lot of effort. If you’re looking for easy achievements there are a lot of better games out there to get them out of. I’d not recommend this game to anybody. It is to hard in the later levels for kids and it is too annoying for adults.

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