Hell Pie Review

Hell Pie reminds me a lot of Conker’s Bad Fur Day, but that’s not necessarily a compliment. Like Conker, Hell Pie is a cutesy 3D platformer on the surface that revels in poop jokes, gore, foul language, and tasteless movie parodies. I don’t remember Conker’s Bad Fur Day being particularly funny as a teenager, though, so 20 years later, that kind of juvenile humor is even more wasted on me. However, I do like the premise. You’re a demon tasked with finding ingredients to make a birthday pie for Satan, and of course the ingredient list is ridiculous. A little too ridiculous, though, as it includes things like used tampons and stillborn chickens. See, it’s “funny,” because it’s gross…

If you can look past all that, the actual gameplay is really solid. This is a 3D platformer collectathon similar to all of the N64 Rare classics. Notably, you have a swing mechanic that allows you to swing mid-air at any time. You can also upgrade this skill to be able to swing multiple times before needing to touch ground. Soon, you’re zipping around the levels in absurd ways that feel like you might be breaking the game if you didn’t know better. It’s a lot of fun and really rewarding to swing over to some obscure platform that was hiding a collectible. It’s too bad the gross-out humor creates such a disconnect overall, because the core of this game perfectly scratches that 3D platformer itch otherwise.

Reviewer

Clark
I love gaming so much, I wrote a book about it.

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Clark

I love gaming so much, I wrote a book about it.