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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1.2 hrs on record
Posted: Nov 26, 2017 @ 6:01am
Updated: Dec 19, 2017 @ 6:56am

President Evil is a game that attempts to shove two completely unrelated satirical themes in to one giant abomination. On one hand, it's a Resident Evil parody. On the other hand, it makes fun of Donald Trump. Put them together, and what do you have? A completely unpolished title that seems impossible to beat. You run around, collecting letter cards and Statue of Liberty souvenirs, all while attempting to find your next objective.

You'll start the game off in a small shack surrounded by political propaganda. You might pick up some of the letter cards and the golden Statue of Liberty if you give a care enough to do so. You'll then open the door and follow the clearly cut trail in the woods to your first destination, and upon arriving there you may start thinking "That was pretty easy, this will be a piece of cake" while the long, badly translated dialogue plays out. You may even notice the blue dot on the mini-map in the upper right hand corner and start following it. Little did you know that the forest is riddled with death traps that can barely be seen, killer walls that mark the boundaries of the map, and mountains that are scalable by simply jumping up their completely vertical incline.

You'll continue to run around, die, restart, climb sections that would be impossible in other games, and attempt in vain to find your next destination; which is a shack in the woods. There are many shacks in the woods, but you need to find a certain one. You may even hit the ESC key to pause, bringing you to the sudden revelation that you have a cell phone in the game with a flashlight. You finally make use of that flashlight, which helps you to see the death traps a little clearer. If you're lucky, you might even find your way to your second destination. That's where President Evil really gets fun.

You see, President Evil has no rules. It has no understandable mechanics (other than run and move). It has no tutorial. Upon arriving at the second area, you'll need to find a jerrycan; all I can say here is good freakin' luck. I ended up finding it, only to be immediately killed by some spirit that comes out of nowhere. The marker on the map that shows where the jerrycan should be, does not lead you directly to said object; oh no, that would make sense. You'll find it laying up against a tree instead. You might even be able to outsmart the evil spirit that comes to kill you by running back to the truck that needs said gasoline. Guess what? You'll be told that you still need a key and a battery, and the spirit will swoop down and destroy you.

And there is where I ended my "adventure" with President Evil; the haphazardly thrown together piece of junk that it is. In fact, that's where most people end their time with the game, if they get that far. I've only managed to find one gameplay video on YouTube, and the guy couldn't find the jerrycan so he rage quit. To be fair, the store page does make it clear that President Evil is a bad game, but that's no excuse for it being so abhorrently unpolished; some of the letter cards aren't even able to be picked up. Do yourself a favor and steer as far clear from this one as possible.

Rating: 0.5/5.0 - Abysmal, avoid it like the plague.
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