[Review] – Mark Leung: Revenge of the Bitch

In terms of gameplay, you have all the standard moves like healing and attack spells, counterattacks, and power attacks. Classes range from basic fighters, to sorcerers and even combat skaters, warriors who fight their enemies with ice skates. All of the characters have a main class and can choose a support class to add abilities to their repertoire.

One of the main highlights of the game is the live action cutscenes. At most major plot points a cutscene will trigger, with all of the characters played by real people in surprisingly good costumes and areas considering the low budget. These are some of the most hilarious moments in the game, and blend seamlessly with actual gameplay. The live action scenes are highly reminiscent of one of Mark Leung's earlier works,

Unfortunately the game suffers from a multitude of technical issues. I found that the anti-aliasing option was completely broken. Attempting to turn it on will either crash the game, or make it not load any textures but the background, leaving only wireframes floating around clouds and water. It is also fairly easy for the game to crash, triggered by loading glitches like encountering enemies while transitioning to a new area, or just at random. The developer's are very aware of the bugs and are hard at work fixing them. In the meantime, the game is still very playable if you save often, which you should do anyways in any RPG you play. And the graphics still look pretty good in their own stylized way, even without antialiasing. For such a small development team with no publisher, the game is still very well made, all things considered.

At around 20 hours long, the game is a full feature length title, despite the impression you may get from it being a spoof RPG. For $13, Mark Leung: Revenge of the Bitch is a pretty good value for all the "lol"s and "wtf"s you will get out of it. And humor aside, it actually plays pretty well as an actual RPG, despite the glitches. You can check out the demo and buy the game at MarkLeung.com.

So, to quote the game's website, "delete some porn and free up your disk space for something way the f*ck better!"