Freeware Game Pick: Jihyo Attack (Ikiki)
Jihyo Attack (Written Resignation Attack) is an abandoned 2D platformer created by the developer of Teppoman 2, where you play as a rather angry employee who just wants to quit his job. Armed with a large hammer in his hands, our salaryman will have a chance to smash everything up at the workplace before handing in his letter of resignation to the boss.
There are only five floors to climb, and you can beat the entire game in just a couple of minutes. Jihyo Attack is available to download from the game graveyard section of Ikiki's site, which will presumably be updated with more of his short projects and incomplete works in the coming weeks. (Windows, 0.49MB)
Comments
controls:
left shift - jump
left ctrl - smash
Posted by: Tim | July 29, 2010 3:05 AM
rock!
Posted by: Anonymous | July 29, 2010 1:21 PM
Note also:
Up+left ctrl causes you to slash upwards. This allows you to fling objects upwards but is not especially useful.
Down+left ctrl smashes a block beneath your feet. Not useful because you will probably fall in and die!
Also, I don't know where you got the thing about the boss refusing to accept the resignation letter.
Per the description, the premise is that he's quitting this lousy company, and so long as he's doing that, he'll just take everyone else down with him and take no prisoners.
Close enough.
Posted by: BC | July 29, 2010 10:27 PM
well i watched the playthrough and i think that's pretty much me done with this game. it was fun though. 3/5
Posted by: american mcgee's balls | July 29, 2010 11:01 PM
@BC: Yeah, I'll change that in a while.
I don't read Japanese, so now you know it's a lot of work trawling through Japanese sites to find games for ya! :)
Posted by: Tim | July 29, 2010 11:13 PM
@Tim
Yeah, that is a highly specialized skill you have. Kudos! You find things I'm not even aware of. Your efforts are appreciated.
I remember meeting these guys that would play imported Japanese console games and had memorized the exact form and meaning of certain Japanese menu words (save, load, start, etc.) without being able to read them. Pattern recognition at its finest.
Posted by: BC | July 30, 2010 2:05 AM
My pattern recognition skill is nearly non-existent, so it's usually the "click on everything until something works" method for me.
Even the names of the games and the developers are all guesswork. If Google Language Tools and Yahoo Babel Fish fail to produce the goods, I have no choice but to come up with a random name until some kind soul corrects me. :)
Posted by: Tim | July 30, 2010 2:12 AM
Keep on keepin' on
Posted by: BC | July 30, 2010 3:19 AM
Are you certain about the purpose of the "Game Graveyard"? I also interpreted it that way after reading the messy google translation of that page. But, it seems weird that Jihyo Attack is actually more polished than many of his other finished games, considering that it is supposedly abandoned.
By the way, I have just started a video series on YouTube about all of Ikiki's games. So, if you'd like to know what all these other games are like without actually playing them, just look up the "Ikiki Games Gallery" :)
Posted by: Syrion | July 30, 2010 4:38 AM