Bad Hotel is a conceptual blend of common ideas brought together in a unique way. It’s a game about looping music through the creation of a hotel empire, where the sounds of commerce and architectural function ring out in waves of syncopated patterns, pulsing throughout each expanded section of the hotel. And your landlord, the aptly named Tarnation Tadstock, desperate for his slice of the pie, sends all manner of deadly creatures to demolish your empire so that he might collect on insurance. So the hotel must be protected. All of these diverse concepts are then washed over with an appealing Art Deco aesthetic, while somehow still managing to stay whole and self-complete.
[Calvin Kemph, Thunderbolt]
Hardcore Gamer: Ah, pancakes! The perfect breakfast food. They fill you up and cost nothing to make. They also helped inspire this Indie Royale bundle…somehow. For $3.50, you get Gentlemen!, Survivor Squad, Eleusis, Gimbal, Talisman Prologue, and Bad Hotel.
Hardcore Droid:
"Of all the things I hate about Bad Hotel, at the very top of that list is sound design. Forgive me. Calling it a “sound design” is an insult to designers, and an even greater insult to sound. This tower defense game rewards you for defending your base by pumping an endless series of high-pitched electronic blips into your delicate, darling little ears until they bleed—nay! Gush—as though Bad Hotel were Lucy Liu and your eardrums that Japanese dude from Kill Bill who just got beheaded. It’s hard for me to actually describe the audio without immediately getting worked up into a fury (I’ve been listening to a detox of Now That’s What I Call Drops of Rain Gently Hitting My Window! 5 for the past two weeks), but if you can imagine a House Music intro with deep car alarm influences, that’s a pretty good approximation."
Posted by Mick Fraser
Within minutes of starting Bad Hotel you know you’re into something new. Lucky Frame’s infuriating, addictive musical tower-defence game presents a wonderfully effective marriage of genres straight off the bat, even if it does get incredibly hard, incredibly fast.
