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August 25th 2014, 05:31 PM
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CocoMonkey
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Please Cindy, say the whole name each time. 
153: The Search for the Green Mushrom Author: Glenn Ergo Release Date: June 12, 2003
"you can search for a mushrom"
"A MUSHROM"
"yes a mushrom"


Y'know, objectively this is pretty terrible, but it made me laugh, so no Award of Badness this time.

In this very short romp, Dink is told to search for a green "mushrom" (it is never spelled correctly) that will make him irresistible to the ladies. He finds the mushroom, but its lady-attracting properties turn out to be a lie. Oh well!


YES!! FAKE

Yes, I got some real amusement from this silly thing. There are some stones blocking the path out of the first area and Dink has to do a little errand to get past them. A sign near the rocks reads, "sorry stones are blocking the way." Examining the rocks causes Dink to remark, "you rock my world." This is all so dumb that I can't help but laugh.

I do have to say that this is a big step up from Glenn's first DMOD, "Glenn's First DMOD." The concept, while extremely basic, is amusing. There are still lots of hardness problems, but at least the borders around the map now work properly and look normal. The map in general looks much better than Glenn's initial effort. Everything pretty much works as intended.


A little odd-looking, but much nicer than Glenn's first.

Even though this is another throwaway DMOD, it's nice to see a new author like this at least moving in the right direction. I wonder when I'll see another release from him... oh, wait.

154: Revenge of the Pigs Author: Glenn Ergo Release Date: June 12, 2003
"Go up the mountains and find a magician, he will prolly teach you magic"

Glenn seems to be the first person ever to finish two DMODs on the same day. The Mushroom DMOD might have been started on a different day, but both games were completed on the 12th.

I was shocked by how much better the grammar and map design are in this DMOD than in Glenn's first two attempts. They're still not great, but they far exceed what I'd thought he was capable of at this point. Well, it turns out I was right about that. Glenn gave this DMOD a major update in 2006, improving these qualities significantly. Now, whole sentences often go by without a single error!


These tiles from "Lyna's Story" are used well, at least from a visual standpoint.

This DMOD is so reminiscent of JVeenhof's original "Revenge of the Ducks" that I'd almost call it a ripoff. Just like in that one, you play as a young farm animal (here a pig named Kirg) who must go learn the fireball spell in order to kill a human responsible for killing many of your kind. This DMOD is even shorter than "Revenge of the Ducks," and a pig killing a person is not as funny as a duck doing so because pigs have been known to actually kill people on occasion.

Hardness is still sloppy, and the fight against the "sloughter" (not only is this misspelled, but referring to a person as "the slaughter" doesn't make a lot of sense) is a joke. He walks slowly and his touch damage is lower than your defense. Kirg turns into Dink upon pushing something, and "east" is confused with "west" in the dialogue. Although this mod is noticeably more competent than "Search for the Mushrom," I don't like it as much because it's not as funny.