What is This Thing?
| What is This Thing? | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | DJ Yoshiman |
| Announce Date | Unknown |
| Release Date | October 2010 |
| Genre | Platform |
| Players | 1 |
| Input | Keyboard |
| Medium | Multimedia Fusion |
| Platform | Windows |
| Status | Released |
What is This Thing? is a highly unconventional platform game made by DJ Yoshiman and first submitted for Nintendo Community Fangame Convention 2010. Only one episode has been produced thus far, but DJ Yoshiman says that more episodes will be made in the future, which will be based on more recent events.
Gameplay
The game begins with Mario having a vision of Luigi and Peach suffering some abstract form of calamity. Mario then boards an airship and does battle with a mutant Bowser, which several people had difficulty figuring out how to beat. After the battle, the game features screens from Paper Mario World, Super Mario Storm, and other games before the action moves onto a lengthy cutscene and several zany mini-games involving characters from MFGG's early days, like Nite Shadow and Supertoad2k.
Reception
WiTT met with mixed reactions. The average score for the game was lower than quite a few considerably lower-profile games. These low scores are mostly due to the fact the majority of the people playing the game had little or no knowledge of the numerous obscure references that appear in the game. Among those familiar with the themes presented in the game, reviewers were generally impressed with DJ Yoshiman's high-quality original music and enjoyed some of the tributes to the past, while frequently complaining about the game's slow start.
