Barravento,...and we thought Final Fight was bad :-(

[ZEUSDAZ]

Well I have to say this is one of the crappiest beat'em-up's I've ever witnessed on our beloved A500, It's from Brazil and It's called Barravento,...whatever the f*ck that means


This "Shit Game Time" request is by youtuber "RayC" who wants me to play and shame this disgrace that saw the light of day on the most awesome games computer ever created.


Enjoy the vid and feel free to comment as I enjoy the feedback


Barravento SGT review: [ Show youtube player ]

[Foebane]

A simple type-in from one of the captions and Google Translate is your friend:

PORTUGUESE (the language of Brazil)
Ao ritmo do Barravento, a batida mais rápida e perigosa do berimbau, a luta ocorreu e houve apenas um vencedor.
Como prêmio, a ele foi atribuído o título de mestre BARRAVENTO.

ENGLISH
At the rhythm of Barravento, the fastest and most dangerous beat of the berimbau, the fight took place and there was only one winner.
As a prize, he was awarded the title of master BARRAVENTO.

(couldn't translate the berimbau, looks like it's a musical instrument of some kind)

Also, are you criticising Amiga scrolling, ONE PIXEL AT A TIME?? Of course it'll look jerky, it's called resolution!

[PortuguesePilot]

It's a bad game indeed. Although the concept is sound (Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that mixes music, dancing, athleticism, fighting techniques and bonding values) and Barravento is probably the ONLY game in the world that bases itself on Capoeira alone. (You have Eddy Gordo in the Tekken universe that uses an over-the-top version of Capoeira, and a couple of other characters, but that's about it).

The implementation is bad. Jerky scrolling, bad animations, very poor collision detection, almost no special moves or differentiation between characters and an overall sense that you're doing nothing except waggling the joystick and hitting the fire button. There's no criteria. There's no strategy. Basically, there's no gameplay.

The animation is, as we said, poor and they do look like they are mounted on an overboard on top of jelly, but the way they move side to side and wave their arms is actually typical of real Capoeira. Just watch some YouTube videos on it.

As a side note: In Brazil they speak a slightly different but 100% mutually intelligible version of Portuguese called Brazilian Portuguese. It's roughly the same difference as US English has to UK English and even less different than South American Spanish languages are to the European Castillian that birthed them. The same way that you don't say Americans speak "American", or Mexicans speak "Mexican", you shouldn't say that Brazilians speak "Brazilian" because there's no such language. They Speak Portuguese. Or, if you want to get technical, they speak Brazilian Portuguese.

[ZEUSDAZ]

Originally Posted by PortuguesePilot

It's a bad game indeed. Although the concept is sound (Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that mixes music, dancing, athleticism, fighting techniques and bonding values) and Barravento is probably the ONLY game in the world that bases itself on Capoeira alone. (You have Eddy Gordo in the Tekken universe that uses an over-the-top version of Capoeira, and a couple of other characters, but that's about it).

The implementation is bad. Jerky scrolling, bad animations, very poor collision detection, almost no special moves or differentiation between characters and an overall sense that you're doing nothing except waggling the joystick and hitting the fire button. There's no criteria. There's no strategy. Basically, there's no gameplay.

The animation is, as we said, poor and they do look like they are mounted on an overboard on top of jelly, but the way they move side to side and wave their arms is actually typical of real Capoeira. Just watch some YouTube videos on it.

As a side note: In Brazil they speak a slightly different but 100% mutually intelligible version of Portuguese called Brazilian Portuguese. It's roughly the same difference as US English has to UK English and even less different than South American Spanish languages are to the European Castillian that birthed them. The same way that you don't say Americans speak "American", or Mexicans speak "Mexican", you shouldn't say that Brazilians speak "Brazilian" because there's no such language. They Speak Portuguese. Or, if you want to get technical, they speak Brazilian Portuguese.

Wow that's some serious info and interesting to read, for Amiga standards I think it's safe to say it has fallen WAAAAAY short, dare we say could pass for a Tiertex game?!

It really is terrible I think we can all agree on, no actually terrible is too kind, it's just plopville

[Nobby_UK]

You have to kick knives away in the later levels

[Foebane]

Originally Posted by ZEUSDAZ

It really is terrible I think we can all agree on, no actually terrible is too kind, it's just plopville

The acid test is, to be honest: is it worse than Rise of the Robots?

[PortuguesePilot]

Originally Posted by Foebane

The acid test is, to be honest: is it worse than Rise of the Robots?

IMO, yes. And doesn't look as good...