Quick Look: Guns, Gore & Cannoli

Vinnie Cannolivella

I'm so sorry

More quick than look on this one.

Seems like this is going to be offensive.

Looks nice at least.

Im surprised GBeast didnt do this quicklook.

I like the art style. But the game itself looks kinda boring.

It's a bummer to see it come out so...plain. For a moment I was excited that it might go for a crazy Metal Slug vibe.

Go to your room.

And next time anyone goes to New York, go to Pasticceria Rocco in the West Village for a solid cannoli.

that steam message near the end...

I believe Vinny mentioned during VinnyVania that he passed on the game for somewhat obvious reasons. You could just rewatch that Pizza Shop game's video for an accurate simulation of what the Quick Look would have been.

Ah, didnt watch Vinnyvania yet,

The art and animations are fantastic, I think if these guys make another game and listen to criticisms it should be great.

Quickest Quick Look all decade?

I'm not sure I understand the great praise this was getting for its visuals. It looks fine, but not really fantastic or anything?

Huh. This could be interesting on sale.

With a bit more (mechanical) depth this could be something.

Leave the Guns and Gore.......take the Cannoli.

THUG! TOWN!

There will never be world peace as long as there is guns and gore.

Cannoli makes the world go round.

A zombie game where you can't aim at zombie heads is doing it wrong.

Zombies? what's that?!

Nah really too many zombie games in the last 10 years. Dead rising, Left 4 Dead, Dead Island, Call of Duty, the Batman Arkham series. LITERALLY EVERY GAME.

How has @danryckert never had a cannoli? It's one of the most delicious foods the gods ever gave to mankind, and it's full of cheese!

Maybe it's because I'm Italian and on the east coast, but of all the crazy-ass Dan shit that's come up in his time at GameInformer and Giant Bomb, I just can't handle the idea that he doesn't even know what a cannoli is.

Dan, go eat a cannoli. Any cannoli--there are no bad ones, even if they're not all that fresh or have been refrigerated.

P.S. Don't refrigerate your cannoli, you maniacs.

@majortoms: I wouldn't mind another Left 4 Dead!

Looks like they improved it a lot since I played it at an event last year. Glad to see more Belgian games getting coverage lately (Divinity, Tale of Tale games etc...). But Crazy Monkey still has a loooong way to go.

Judging from the video the camera looks janky as fuck.
I haven't played the full game yet but what I played last year it looked good (not this good) but was boring as hell. Controls were annoying. And I got swarmed from all sides but that was because I suck :)

I'd really love another metal slug type game!

aiming would eliminate some frustration but I don't think it would make this a good game.

The game IS fun, but man... like Dan, I was expecting something more like Metal Slug. This feels more like an average browser game. And the main character is annoying as hell after about 20 minutes.

But my biggest issue with it is that it makes me want a nice cannoli, and there's nowhere to get one around here.

Here in Italy you would probably be accused of blasphemy :D the ricotta has to be fresh and of good quality, it makes a world of difference

Finally the mob-themed reimagining of Skull Cracker we've all been waiting for!

Oh, like you've never eaten an old cannoli and enjoyed it.

Fresh is always better, but there is no such thing as a bad cannoli.

I googled Cannoli and it looked frikkin' delicious.

@spoonman671: oh, pesonally i've eaten and enjoyed things a lot worse than old cannoli :D but people here (especially if they are from sicily) tend to be very strict about the quality of the ricotta inside, both for the cannolo and for the cassata (wich is actually my favourite sicilian dessert)

Vinigawa McCaravellaburgito

God cannolis are delicious.

I'm not so sure about the gameplay, but man do the touches in the art and design, like the way the checkpoint works like an old traffic light, make me want to play this game.

DanRyckert: dota sux

This game can't be good since they don't use an Oxford comma.

That's not how you spell Vinny.

This is garbage

Really dig the art in this game.

It's going to take most longer to read the comments than it did to watch this QL

reminds me of shank, really nice art but super boring and repetitive gameplay

The lack of aiming first made me think "Well, Mega Man can't aim, and those games are fine." Then I remembered that steep inclines are rare in those games. They appear more often in the X series, but those games make up for the lack of aiming with increased mobility.

So I guess at the very least, this Quick Look got me thinking about game design. Thanks, Guns, Gore, & Cannoli!

The sound effect for firing the shotgun sounds identical to the Barrett .50 Cal. from Modern Warfare 2. I don't know, I just couldn't help but notice.

#NewWilhelmScream

Kinda reminds me of Gunman Clive. I really liked Gunman Clive 1 and 2.

yea, that's a shame.

it looks great but, for this type of game, the inability to shoot in any other direction is inexcusable. no idea what the dev's were thinking.

it's like all the focus went towards aesthetics, and gameplay (y'know, the, uh, most important element) was secondary.

Huh, I saw this on the sked without the "Quick Look" part and assumed this would be a Vinny feature.

Cannolis are fantastic Dan. Get a cannoli.

Why would you take obvious time and effort to make a game look pretty cool and not include very, very basic aiming mechanics?

I wonder how hard it is to add analog aiming to a game...it can't be that hard, people were doing it 20 years ago.

I agree with what Jeff said in the QL, that if they added analog aiming, it would probably make it too easy. Hell, it looked easy enough as it was without it