Quick Look: Guns, Gore & Cannoli

cannoli is the best pastry ever created I can't believe they don't know what a cannoli is omg.

Mobsters >>> Gangsters

@blueneurosis: worth the trip....
http://www.yelp.com/biz/madonia-brothers-bakery-bronx

Chicago peeps hit up Allegretti's for the best cannoli in town. Cannoli talk.

Not a lot of game here. Shame, name of the game and basic premise seemed cool.

I wonder if this quick look is still positive for the games sales, even though the opinion was negative.

I'm sure Vinny has made a Vinny Cannoli joke on the bombcast before, or at least something very similar.

@df-1: What did it say? I guess I missed it.

Love the art style and the mobster theme, but like the video says it needs analog aiming and I would remove the zombies , not that I am getting sick of zombie games, I just never ever liked them in the first place.

ENOUGH with the undead already! They're has-been's.

"Thamts suf gud connoleee."Well...that's enough quick look for me.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

Aww man, so much graphical promise, so little interesting gameplay.

Art Reminds me of the Penny Arcade RPG

Vinnie? What is this madness?!

Vinny should have been in on this.

With a 0 second Start to Crate, what can you expect?

The art style is a lot like the games Shank and the Thing-Thing games made by Crazy Monkey Games. Both art styles I really like and are definitely similar. However, I just wish a better game was attached to the great art style here. It looks like it has the potential to be good, but it just didn't quite get there.

Guns, Gore & Cannoli: The Vincent Caravella Story.

The BBC Micro (a UK thing) supported joysticks with potentiometers which worked 100%, including with the original version of Elite. To add fuel to your argument that was over 30 years ago.

Cannoli are bad. Eating a mass of ricotta cheese holds no appeal to me. Maybe if they were the size of ravioli I'd be way into it, but they're not.

I don't agree with the idea that a game like this needs to have analog aiming. It's just that any design choice that a game makes has to have a compelling reason for it and it doesn't necessarily seem like a great choice here. I don't think it looks all that interesting regardless of how the aiming system would be, though.

Well they at least had the smarts to put the exploding barrel a few more seconds down the hallway.

The reason there is no analog aiming is sadly quite clear: You would decimate this game if it was in there. Sure, it would take some getting used to, but all those enemies that rushed Dan in this QL wouldn't even make it halfway to him if he could control the shot. Especially with that tommy gun.

I've never not wanted to play as a mob enforcer before. Thanks, whoever made this game.

The flash-like tweening on the animation makes me feel dead inside.

Really like the art style and animations. Could use a bit more variety to the gameplay from what we've seen

SNOOZE

@csl316 said:

Yeah. On the other hand, Gunman Clive is like 1/5th the price of Guns, Gore, and Cannoli, and is probably a better game overall.

But that price difference is fair, because I think the Gunman Clive dev team is like 2 people, whereas this game probably had to pay way more people than that to make all of the art. But both games offer a similar Mega-Man-but-with-no-powers and basic 2D platforming experience, and I think either Gunman Clive game has more interesting gameplay and is a much lower price than this game.

It really is the Shank problem all over again where a bunch of artists put in some good work, but it doesn't count for much if they made a 2D action platformer that is just way too boring and mechanically simple.

Yeah, I was on my phone and didn't go in depth, but all your stuff makes sense.

What the people need to know is that as far as action-platformers go, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures is legitimately one of the best indie action games in recent times.