More than a year ago a extremely cute but macabre animated video managed to go viral on YouTube by showing different animals and characters dying in the most stupid ways that can occur. Its title, Dumb Ways to Die (Stupid ways to die in Spanish) followed the lines of a advertising campaign and awareness of the danger of falling onto the tracks of the Melbourne subwayWhether the campaign was a success or not when the message of the video is barely remembered is one thing, but what is certain is that the video gave attention as much or more than the game that grew out of it. A skill title where you try not to die stupidly and now has a sequel.
This is how it comes Dumb Ways to Die 2, a new installment that seeks to repeat the success of the previous title. And it is that for this repeats mechanics and gameplay, managing to present a game that is really addictive although with a diabolical difficulty, forcing the player to put all the senses on the screen and be able to react in the shortest possible time to save the different characters. With a message or not, it's a gore game but really fun and capable of hooking the user who has enough stomachto tolerate macabre scenes.Of course, all this with a lot of humor.
This is a game of skill in which quickness and eye-finger agility are the key to success. It is made up of 28 different levels or minigames starring some kind of absurd death. Whether it's running the 100 meter hurdles over electrified fences, riding dolphins, skiing on a rocket, playing curling with anti-personnel mines ”¦ the variety is the widest, crazy and at the same time hilarious In each level the player is urged to perform some action: tap on the screen to jump, turn the terminal to keep your balance, slide your finger quickly, etc.
Questions that, as a concept, are simple and fun to carry out. However, the complication comes with the randomness of the minigames, which appear in each game out of order so that the player doesn't have time to consider their mechanics.In addition, you always play against time, being able to see a bar at the top of the screen that descends faster and fasterin order to end the player's game. All this with the final satisfaction of unlocking new characters and meeting the new cast of this hilarious and gore awareness campaign.
In short, a fun and highly addictive game. Of course, you have to have a bit of black humor to enjoy the title to the fullest. All this accompanied by a very colorful childish aesthetic that makes this campaign even more surprising, which tries to convey the message of not playing or getting distracted when there are trains nearby. Game Dumb Ways to Die 2 is now available for iPhone and iPad It is Free, and can be downloaded from the App StoreOf course, it has integrated purchases to acquire tokens with which to unlock characters without investing so much time and skill in the game.
