KUNG FURY now on Youtube

[tezunegari]

Barbarianna, the hot viking with a minigun... riding a wolf... hunting Laseraptors.

[Tribble]

This will be... interesting.

[Rogue 9]

Oh my God, it's SO BAD. I could not stop laughing. 10/10, so bad it's good, would watch again.

[Sea Skimmer]

Its pretty damn amusing but a lot stronger in the first half then the second for certain.

[Tribble]

Its pretty damn amusing but a lot stronger in the first half then the second for certain.

Maybe, but the moment where Spoiler

the T-Rex and robot-eagle fought

was more than worth it.

As was the part where Kung Fury tried to Spoiler

arrest his spirit animal for obstruction of justice because it refused/couldn't bring him back to life

[Argosh]

That thing in his car ... Spoiler

HOFF9000

[Darth Nostril]

Its pretty damn amusing but a lot stronger in the first half then the second for certain.

Definitely, they tried to do too much with just half an hour and the last half fell like a failed souffle.

[bilateralrope]

I think what made the second half feel weak is that the fight scenes just dragged on without being interesting.

[Rogue 9]

I think what made the second half feel weak is that the fight scenes just dragged on without being interesting.

So much like Avengers 2, then? But yeah, I think the opening fight scene benefited greatly from the VHS tracking gag.

[Starglider]

I think what made the second half feel weak is that the fight scenes just dragged on without being interesting.

The direction was just poor on the Nazi base sequence. They gathered some cool characters but then just had them effortlessly mow down helpless milling extras for a minute or so. There was no actual fight with the nemesis. This part could have been much more exciting just with better framing, without spending any more on CGI. The Nazi moustache joke was bad pacing and should have been cut and replaced with something more interesting for the Vikings to do.

Still a lot of fun though and the music video was just perfect; you could easily imagine that being cut together from an actual 80s feature film.

[TOSDOC]

Definitely having 80's flashbacks with this one, especially with the Tracking. And the scene with them riding the T. Rex felt like it was right out of Heavy Metal. But the first half was better, especially where he
Spoiler

crushes the phone in his hand, and starts his car with his gun.

[Eleas]

The second half has one huge redeeming moment where Spoiler

the dinosaur (who hadn't shown any sign of intelligence before that point) turns to the camera and goes "teamwork is very important" while everyone LAUGHS HEARTILY. I loved Far Cry: Blood Dragon, but compared to UbiSoft's game, Kung Fury was much better at nailing the cringeworthy 80's staples such as blatantly preaching to the audience and the typically forced happy ending.

[Sea Skimmer]

I'm not sure I'd go that far. Maybe it means less to people not from the US, well actually I'm sure it does, but the Blood Dragon bit with 'winners don't do drugs' is almost impossible to match with anything else for pure 80s. That was actually displayed by almost every arcade machine in the country for years and years far into the 1990s, and it wouldn't surprise me if some machines still do it since the only thing that ever breaks on those machines is the screen and the joysticks. Not to mention Michael Biehn and Vietnam War TWO!

Also the end of blood dragon, with the Spoiler

missiles exploding into fireworks as you shoot them with a galting gun.

Kung Fury doesn't deliver so well on the pure raving gung ho absurdity like that except its opening bit, which is by far the best part. But I do love them both.

[Eleas]

I dunno. I mean, I get what you're saying and mostly I agree, I just felt Kung Fury got a lot more of the less overt but omnipresent '80s stuff in there. The Miami palm trees. The emphasis on (specifically) the bicep as manliness substitute. Hell, the gull-wing sports car is just pure evocative 80's jet fuel. And in the end, the blending of all those element into a coherent mess was what sold it for me.

Both Blood Dragon and Kung Fury are fantastic, but I felt BD was the weaker in that regard. It just didn't seem to know if it wanted to go for balls-to-the-wall stone-faced parody or self-awareness.

[Sea Skimmer]

Blood Dragon comes across like an actual 1980s movie and is very consistent, aside from that opening worst tutorial ever bit. Kung Fury is a string of gags about 1980s movies but really doesn't have a story, and some gags work far better then others. I suppose its really just not fair to compare them.

[Eleas]

No, it is tonally entirely inconsistent. The Benji gag. The shout-outs to video games. The aforementioned tutorial. The collectibles. Hell, the missions themselves. Half the time it's trying to be archly ironic, the other times it's playing it straight, and it never makes up its mind.

It's not the fault of the game in itself. No, this feels like it's on Jeffrey Yohalem, whose weakness as a writer is well known. I still can't dislike him though, because when Blood Dragon works, it really does work.