Thunderbolt: "This Is a Cry For Help brings me back to those days. Not because it ships in box; in fact, all I received in the mail was a single CD nestled tightly in a smooth slip barely thicker than a few sheets a paper. But once I popped the disc in my drive, I began to get the feeling of nostalgia. This Is a Cry For Help, you see, is not just a game (or rather, compilation of games). It is a complete package, filled with comics, sketches, animations, and commentary. Before I played a single game, I already had the feeling that I'd received something that had some love put into it. That had, if I may be so whimsical, soul."
Edmund McMillen is an artist who has been creating all sorts of media for many years. Currently, he's prepping Super Meat Boy for WiiWare. McMillen recently celebrated 10 years of artistic independence with a compilation disc packed with his games, comics, animations, and sketches. It's called This is a Cry for Help, and for $10 you get over 17 games. Some are better than others, some are more art experiments than traditional games, but they're all worth a look. And there are some real gems in here, like Blast Miner, 2005 Independent Games Festival winner Gish, the original Meat Boy, and Clubby the Seal. Some of it is risqu?, like The C Word, which features male and female genitalia doing battle.
This is a collection for the "mature" gamer, by the way.
TGR Writes:
"McMillen has … how do we put it … a gross side. Sometimes it's a simple display of cartoonish gore in his work, and other times it's a vulgar presentation of graphic sexual content. In general, though, there's an obsession with fleshy parts and internal organs that persists through the majority of the CD."
