Chicken Assassin: Reloaded

Upon first glance at Chicken Assassin: Master of Humiliation on Steam, the game seemed like a 2D brawler games involving fowl in fisticuffs. If you read the description of the game, it would have you believe it is an “Epic Action RPG! Full of Sarcastic and Hilarious Characters…”. It is very difficult to tell that it is actually a clicker game, with no mention of this fact in the description or trailers. Let's see how it stacks up.

The gameplay of Chicken Assassin is very much as you would expect for a clicker game. As Mean McCallister, Chicken Assassin, you aggressively click-to-death each and every enemy that come storming in from off screen, clearing wave after wave of these baddies until you reach the boss of the level. And once you do reach the boss, you guessed it, you click it into submission. Defeating enemies provides you with items that you can use to give McCallister stat boosts to increase his battle effectiveness, and souls you use to purchase items and upgrades. You also unlock new outfits from time to time through collecting enough of certain item drops or beating certain enemies etc.

The upgrades available to you come in two forms; resource and character. Resource upgrades are focused on increasing the frequency that you obtain souls and the value they possess. This can be something on the level of directly increasing the numeric value per soul or something like purchasing little flame minions to gather souls while you are away (this is one of many portions of the game that seem very mobile gamey). The character upgrades give direct, permanent, stat boosts to Mean McCallister, like increased defense or increase critical chance percentage. You don’t really run into too many spots where you do not have enough souls to get upgrades, due to the “Rooster Tales”, the games achievements that award various amounts of souls as a reward for their completion. That being said, one extremely annoying feature that reeks of mobile game is the “Soul Limit” that you have to spend souls to increase. There were several times were I would earn a 500,000 soul reward only to receive 100,000 and the rest disappear into the ether because “I can’t carry that many souls”. It doesn’t even tell you your current souls limit, so you have no way of knowing if you are close to full or not.

After playing for an hour or so, you will quickly realize the pattern of gameplay. Since there is no way to heal outside of an upgrade that gives you a chance to heal after defeating an enemy or leveling up mid-game (instant full health), and the enemies usually get their attack(s) before you can react to them, you will click madly trying to stay alive whilst constantly bleeding health until the boss one-shots you and you have to restart the level. You will keep repeating the cycle of fight, die, re-equip, fight again over and over until you get lucky with the level up timing or are so over leveled you can murder anything in your path and beat the level. But, when you start the next level, it starts all over again, you get your teeth kicked in, so you die, re-equip, fight again etc. It is just the same thing over and over and over, and it gets boring extremely quickly.

While the sound effects are quite good for the game, the music is another beast all together. Mediocre at its best and irritatingly bad at worst. The main menu music (before you pay souls to unlock more music…in a game you paid for already) is a seemingly random assortment of drum beats and synths, with some weird pitched up vocals meandering around in the background that soon fades to almost out of tune piano chords. Most times you are better off playing with the music turned down.

The worst thing of all however is the blatant racist and sexist imagery the game uses for background characters and enemies. In the very first mission, there is an Asian man with thick round glasses with buck teeth and a rice hat betting on the game, with what looks like a black face caricature eating a fried chicken leg. In the riot scene you fight overweight women with picket signs that read “Free the Nipple”. Their title: “Angry Feminist”. It gets worse when you get to the “Borderlands” level in which you are fighting outside of a gigantic concrete wall where your enemies are “Vatos” and “Wetbacks”. In what way is this okay?!?! It’s astonishing that a game like this was greenlit on Steam, let alone has such high ratings. If these depictions were meant to be in jest (though still in poor taste), it should have been made more clear.

Final Opinion
Pros:
1. Oil Painting ArtStyle is Cool
2. Visual Effects are Well Done
3. Lots of Customization Options
Cons:
1. Grindy
2. Gets Old Fast
3. Bad Music
4. Have to Unlock Features that Should Just Come with A Game You Paid For
5. RACISM and SEXISM

Buyer beware, I would not recommend it but its your decsion.

RATINGS

Gameplay: 4/10
Graphics: 4/10
Story: 2/10
Sound: 3/10
Content/Cost: 4/10

OVERALL: 3.4/10

This is the best clicker games I've ever play, and the good thing is ... this is not that common idle clicker game.

It is similar to beat em up games, but a clicker. You've play as a Chicken Assassins in level based mission. You can upgrade your stats when level up like rpg games. You can equip your weapon, necklace, potion or armor. You can wear wardrobe like clothes, hat or eye glasses that have stats .... and they are ton of them. So, you can customize your chicken assassin look.

There is main mission and bonus mission. You can play bonus mission if requirement get unlocked after finishing some main mission. But after unlocked the mission, there is another requiremet that is item requirement. You can get these item from main mission, and be sure upgrade your backpack inventory to get more items. If you don't have enough space, you can sell the item that you don't need. But, sometimes Black Market guy need that item that you sell before to trade with you. Yeah, there is Black Market guy that want to trade with you for huge cash and exp boost. Be sure rank up your level and became a Chicken Assassins god.

So, with better artwork and good soundtrack this game is flawless as a clicker games. And if you want play a high quality clicker game, this game is for you.

Chicken Assassin – Master of Humiliation is a clicker game with RPG elements. Firstly, I’d like to mention this game really surprised me, I wasn’t expecting such a good game but it really is an awesome and addicting game. The first time I started I kept on playing for 32 character levels and I only quit because I had to leave. I am a sucker for clicker games and this is right up my alley.

Graphics:

The game features nice looking almost borderlands-ish looking art-style and very gorgeous looking color scheme. The game has a “Noir” theme going on. Though it’s 2d but it’s one of the best looking unity game yet for me at least. It’s nice and dark yet colorful and pleasing to the eyes. The game is locked at 60 FPS and there are no graphics options at all in-game. The options outside the game when you launch are there which is your usual Unity launcher menu with resolution and quality of graphics settings. There were no graphics glitches or errors for me the whole time I played.

Sound:

I am going to have to say this game has an awesome soundtrack. All the levels I played had their own background music which to me really gave me that whole “noir” theme feeling the game is going for. There’s also cheesy sarcastic dialog voice overs when you start a new mission and I found them hilarious.

Gameplay:

The gameplay is super addictive if you’re a fan of clicker games. Unlike a normal clicker game where you continue and keep clicking in one mode, this game has a story, RPG elements and levels. The game even counts how many times you clicked and that including clicking in menus as well. There's plenty of humor, references and sarcastic stuff in the game. Your main currency is souls which you can earn by killing enemies who then drop these blue souls which you can collect by hovering you mouse over them. You also have a “Soul Pot” I your main menu which you can keep clicking to earn more souls. Later in the game you can get upgrades and one of them is the “Soul Helper” upgrade which spawns a helper who will keep girding for souls. One thing which can be added is an offline farming feature because the can get pretty grind-y in the later levels.

There are quite a few levels and each level features different enemies, bosses, themes, music so there’s plenty of content in this game. When you start the game you’re pretty weak but grinding and upgrading your gear and gaining levels you start to get stronger and stronger. The enemies start coming towards you in waves and you have to click on them to cause damage. A health bar is displayed under each enemy while the bosses have huge health bars. The enemies will attack you and your only way to heal yourself is to have the upgrade ability “Chance to heal when you hit an enemy”. Every 10 waves you get a boss wave. The first few levels have 20 waves which means 2 boss battles and both these bosses are different. The first boss is the normal small boss and you need to kill this boss to unlock next level. The second boss is one of the many giant bosses. The later levels have more waves and bosses so you need to do 20 waves or more to unlock the next levels.

There’s a lot of items in the game, you can earn these items by either playing the game or through a chest that is in your main home screen. Of course to open this chest you need to spend some souls and later in the game you can upgrade the chest level and it’ll start giving higher level stuff. The price will be higher too so you might want to keep that in mind. Items include the levels’ theme stuff for example when you kill Agents enemy-type they will most likely drop ties or when you kill a mouse they will most likely drop cheese. These items can be used to purchase souls from the black market dealer who comes up every now and then and you’ll get a prompt at the bottom of the screen. He randomly wants a different item in different quantities each time and if you have that you can exchange those items for souls and xp.

There’s also equip-able items. You have 4 slots in which you can equip different items. Firs there’s the weapon slot where you can equip different weapons. Weapons can be a gun or a bat or a broken glass bottle, it doesn’t really make a difference other than stats. Other slot is the armor slot which is pretty self-explanatory. Third slot is the necklace slot and the last slot is the potion/drink slot where you can equip an item and it’ll give you bonus e.g. +2 ATK, +3HP. Other than these items you also have cosmetic items which get unlocked when you do certain things. E.G when you kill 10 constables you’ll unlock the constable hat etc. These costumes also give you boosts. There’s the head slot, the face slot (glasses, masks etc) and the clothes slot. All items effect ATK, DEF, CRIT and HP bonuses. All items have different stats so you can select the gear with HP if you like that playstyle more or you can pick the one with most ATK power.

There’s a lot of upgrades in this game. The upgrades are divided in 2 categories. The battle upgrades and the resources upgrades. Your regular increase HP, Attack, Defense upgrades, critical hit chance upgrade etc. are there, these and a few other ones like an attack bot companion attacks enemies are in the battle upgrades category. The resource upgrades include things like soul farming helpers, more xp earned from enemies, upgrade souls’ value, upgrade treasure chest level etc.

There’s also booster tales which are sort of like achievements/tasks, e.g. kill certain number of enemies to get 200 souls. You can visit the booster tales section and click on collect button to collect these souls. Keep in mind there is a maximum soul limit (this can be upgraded later) so don’t collect higher souls reward then your limit. E.g. if your limit is 10,000 maximum souls, don’t collect 50,000 souls reward. Leave it as is and you can collect it when you upgrade your maximum souls limit. There are no achievements in this game on Steam but I think this system can be used to make Steam achievements which is always a plus for any game.

Later in the game you also unlock boss raid mode. You have to pay a certain amount of a specific item to be able to join these boss raids.

A short gameplay video can be found below:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=713319053

Graphics:9/10
Sound:9/10
Gameplay:10/10
Overall:9/10

Conclusion:

This game is epic, if like me, you’re a clicker fan, this game is a must buy. It’s super addictive and you keep coming back for more and more. Plenty of gear, levels, unlocks will keep you coming back for more and more. The graphics are awesome, soundtrack is very nice as well. There are no achievements or cards at the time of this review and hopefully the developer adds those as it’ll make the game a perfect 10 for me.