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One time while I was hanging out with some friends, someone proposed the question. “If
you had an unlimited amount of money, what would be the first thing you bought?” Without
a second of hesitation I responded,” I would buy the zoo.” My other friend then added,
“and we could release all the animals and hunt them. It would be like be Jumanji, only
for real and with guns.” We all then had a good laugh about this. Why do I tell you
this tale? To allow you to understand the deep and undying love I have for zoo animals,
and more specifically giraffes. So when the PSN offered a mini called, “Hungry Giraffe,”
there was no question I wanted to play it.
You play as a giraffe, so the game is off to a good start. And I can infer that this
giraffe is quite hungry, one because the game is called “Hungry Giraffe,” and also because
all you do is feed this giraffe. The giraffe’s neck just keeps growing and growing and that
is the point the game. You keep this Giraffe’s neck growing. The way you do this is by eating
the food to feed this insanely hungry giraffe. This giraffe is willing to eat anything. There
are sandwiches, apples and strawberries. The more you eat, the faster your neck will grow.
Can you imagine what torture it would be if this giraffe was to get sick and need to throw
up. Awwww. That poor animal. If you miss too many items, you will start to slow down until
eventually you will fall to the bottom of the screen causing your game to end. So keep
eating those sandwiches so you keep growing and keep getting a higher score.
But it is not as easy as it sounds. Somehow suspended in the air are anvils and dumbbells.
While the dumbbells will just slow you down, the anvils will bring your giraffe to a complete
halt, and give him a terrible headache. As you grow you will start to see paths of food
to eat and hazards to avoid until you get into a good flow and just keep going up. Another
has your giraffe to throw up all over the screen, making you unable to see. There is
one more hazard, and it is a really groovy one. Have you ever wondered what it would
look like to see a giraffe tripping on LSD, I know I have. And I can finally witness this.
If you eat one of the pills, the screen will turn into something like a Quicksilver Messenger
Service Concert. It also reverses the controls, making it very easy to miss your food and
lose. To help you reach the top are chili peppers and hardhats. The hardhats you collect
to help with your defense, making you able to take a hit, unlike a certain Tom Brady.
The chili peppers make your giraffe freak out and shoot up without a care of the hazards,
tearing through them.
The game has a fun style that looks fairly good. It has nice and bright colors with some
cool effects. And the music is fantastic.
The game is not really intended for you to put hours into but rather a couple minutes
here and some there. It is great to play while you wait the “5 more minutes” your girlfriend
tells you as she is getting ready. Plus it stars a giraffe which is undeniable cool.