Shuggy has just inherited a castle full of goblins, ghouls, zombies, and robots. Help him clear out over 100 rooms to make his new home liveable again! Every room in the castle is different, letting Shuggy fly, float, swing, spin, change size, time travel and more as he explores the Dungeon, Boiler Room, Clocktower, Gallery, and Graveyard.
The game follows the adventures of Shuggy - hence the title - a googly-eyed vampire who's inherited a great, grey, run-down Scottish castle from his grandfather. But it's a mess, infested with rats, spiders, bumblebees, levitating spiky ball things, electrical traps and more. And Shuggy, despite being a vampire, isn't a particularly tough guy. Contact with any of them means an immediate death - or, more precisely, an immediate restart - so he has to traverse every room in the house, "cleaning" them by collecting gems, while avoiding everything that moves.
It's a great spectacle, with bright, colorful graphics, a visual style that's best described as "Halloween whimsy gone wild" and an infuriatingly catchy theme song. (Seriously, this is going to be stuck in my head for days.) What makes it truly unique, though, is that it boasts a wide range of completely different game mechanics that changes from level to level. Some are very conventional - jump over monsters and between platforms, collect the gems and be on your way - but most serve up some sort of unusual twist to the action.
Some levels, for instance, have to be rotated in order to make all the gems accessible, while others are upside-down or sideways, leaving the control keys turned on end or completely reversed. Some make use of a bizarre time-reversal mechanic, complete with "30-seconds-ago Shuggy" following precisely in your footsteps and doing exactly what you've already done, and occasionally you'll even have multiple Shuggies who have to work together as a team. There's more - a lot more - and it can get quite devious.
Key Features:
- Co-op play – Play 36 twisted two-player levels in the offline co-op mode, with puzzles that can only be completed through cunning and teamwork.
- Non-linear map screen – Multiple routes through the castle ensure you’ll be able to find another route if you get stuck.
- Boss encounters – Use your wit and cunning to defeat the dastardly bosses in each area of the castle.
- Time travel – Get caught in a time loop and co-operate with your past echoes.
- Rotation – Spin whole levels or interlocking puzzle sections to grab all the gems.
- Seeing double – Utilize multiple Shuggys under the influence of different gravities.
- Teleportation – Use Shuggy’s teleporter to solve some tricky conundrums.
- Tied up in knots – Grab the magic rope and swing your way to victory.
Recommended System Requirements
OS: Windows 7
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.2GHz, or AMD Athlon 64 at 2.2GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 1 GB NVIDIA 200+, ATI 4500+
DirectX: 9.0c
Hard Drive: 1.8 GB HD space
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