The sound effects are typical FPS fare, though they all land with a satisfying impact for weapons especially, making even the humble pistol feel like an instrument of death. Given this game is parodying FPS games that made a better reputation for being edgy, Corey has a lot of amusingly cheesy one-liners referencing FPS games and Postal lore. Corey Cruise voices The Dude, though other classic voices like Rick Hunter appear as well. The music has a lot of fast-paced rock style music along with some classic Postal music, and both are also fed through the surrealism filter to complement the graphics. There are also cutscenes in a Western cartoon style that set up the story and segue nicely into the game levels. The settings of each level all have a schizophrenic mix of pastel meets gritty, which adds to the general theme that the player is experiencing the world inside The Dude's mind. They are fed through a Giger-style filter, resulting in many enemies resembling nightmarish parodies of Postal enemies, like the gimp-suited monsters with nightmare faces and the band members from Postal 2 turned into grotesque zombies. As a result, on many levels, this title will parody other media like The Sims, the Shawshank Redemption, practically every FPS game of the nineties, and Postal itself. Graphically, this game mixes a neo-retro, low resolution like the classic Doom and Duke Nukem 3D games with a lot of enemies and set pieces inspired by the work of Swiss artist H.R Giger, particularly his work on surrealism and bizarre dreamscapes. There are lots of secrets to collect, a speedrun challenge feature where the player can challenge other players' best times, and an in-game codex of game lore where the player can collect posters with information on the enemies, weapons, and settings of the game itself. Moral Warnings: Profuse (if low res) blood and gore lots of foul language (which can be reduced with an option in the sound menu) some sexual imagery including a brief uncensored shot of male genitals some occult-themed enemies and general nightmarish demonic looking beings option to kill non-combatant NPCs Strong Points: Hilarious blend of FPS gameplay mixed with the wackiness of the Postal series Since it's also a Postal game, a lot of classic staples like using your urine as a weapon are still here, along with lots of enemies, setpieces, and references to the Postal universe. Like the games it is parodying, it also has some puzzles to complete, both logic and physics related. You make your way through levels grabbing weapons and gear to progress, blasting anything that might try to end your existence, and trying to progress till you make it through all the levels. The gameplay is mostly like any other first-person shooter game. Given some of the enemies are literal Vietnam war vets with double-barreled shotguns, the in-game comments of "Ok, Boomer" take on more than one meaning. This all said, the "boomer shooter" is quite literal, as Hyperstrange teamed up with Running With Scissors to make a parody of classic shooters like Duke Nukem 3D and Doom crossed with the bizarre world of Postal. Of course, this is The Postal Dude, so his response is to paint the walls of his head with nightmarish entrails until he chases down his alternate self and gets his TV back. Meanwhile, as he tries to navigate his increasingly bizarre dream, all sorts of nightmarish horrors want to take him out. The story starts with The Dude having fallen asleep after watching TV and finding himself in a bizarre dream where another version of him stole his TV and keeps taunting him. However, in the Hyperstrange self-proclaimed "boomer shooter" version of the Postal universe, The Dude is trying to escape his mind, and there is a reason they call the game subtitle "Brain Damaged". The Postal series is no stranger to being wacky, but it's still mostly set in a relatively realistic if a hilarious parody of the real world, one in which its title character tries to survive despite the world trying to end him. Published By: Running With Scissors, Hyperstrange Developed By: Hyperstrange, CreativeForge Games
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