My name is DJBendy, and I plan to make a blog about all kinds of games, retro or not!
What I aim to do:
– Provide helpful information about video games
– Act as a form of a game guide: Includes the recommended options for games, or the easiest path forward!
– Provide info about some of my favorite games!
– Have fun and enjoy the blog!
I can’t wait to begin and I’ll see you all in DJBendy’s Digital Dungeon!
– DJBendy
Hello again world! I would like to continue my honest review of Dan the Man, while waiting for Dan the Man 2 to release.
Dan the Man is full of secrets, including secret areas and secret items. Every secret area is unique in their own way. From timing your movement to a quick little optional fight, the secret areas are a great way to get weapons, food or more coins.
The unfortunate problem I have with some of these secret areas is that some require you to think of every way you can traverse in an area. You might need to jump in that one specific spot, find a differently marked wall, or even going to the left at the start of the stage. In all of Dan the Man, only two secret areas require the player to go left at the start of the stage, once in 8-1-2, and another one in Fright Zone. However, the secret areas provide weapons such as throwing knives, an RPG, and even a carlgustav. All weapons start off incredibly weak, but upgrading them to ultimate makes them extremely overpowered and overkill for any enemy in the game.
The first ever weapon you encounter are the shurikens. Upgrading them to ultimate electrifies them, making any enemy stunned for a brief moment of time. Very useful near the end game with shielded enemies or commandos, upgraded and deadlier versions of brutes. You can carry 40 shurikens when it is upgraded to ultimate. The second weapon, the modern rifle, is the best weapon in the game. Upgrading it to ultimate allows for bullets to pierce through enemies, if the bullet is not a critical hit. It is always useful and reliable with its fast fire rate and its maximum ammo being 50. The third weapon you are introduced to is the RPG7. It is the first weapon with an explosive radius, and upgrading it to ultimate makes it reload faster than normal. It’s maximum ammo is 16. You are introduced to throwing knives as the fourth weapon. Upgrading them to ultimate sets the blades of the knives on fire, useful for stopping enemies such as commandos. Like the shurikens, you can carry 40 knives when upgraded to ultimate. Fifth, you have an AK rifle. By default, it is an AK-47. Upgrading it to ultimate makes the shells explosive. You can carry 60 bullets with one AK rifle. Finally, you have the carlgustav. The carlgustav is the slowest, but it deals the most amount of damage per hit reliably. Upgrading it to ultimate makes the radius of the explosion increase by 50%. However, due to the slow nature of the carlgustav, I generally do not use it much.
Overall, the modern rifle is the best weapon in the game, and the carlgustav, while not being the worst, is the slowest and the least used.
To be continued, again 😛
Dan the Man is an mobile action platformer with beat em’ up mechanics, released in 2016 by Halfbrick Studios. From the unique retro feel of the game with unique pixel art, to the very unique story, Dan the Man is a very good platformer, in my opinion.
The mechanics are easy to learn and provide unique combos to deal with any enemy you face. With every upgrade, you gain another unique way to attack against the many fights the game gives you. There are also several weapons you can use to keep the distance between you and your enemies.
Your moveset starts off very limited, but upgrading your character puts more combos in your arsenal. Your regular combo starts off as a weak three hit combo, but maxing it out deals a considerable amount of damage and knockback. Your high kick is very useful once you unlock it, perfect for attacking enemies too high to reach. Your down kick is also useful to keep distance between you and the enemies, and upgrading it to max level allows you to down kick twice in a row. Your grab and throw is pathetic in the beginning, with it not being able to hurt other enemies, but rather stunning them very briefly. Maxing your grab and throw out deals a considerable amount of damage and knockback. Your sucker punch is very effective, however it is immediately outclassed by the basic and ultimate uppercuts. Finally, for shielded enemies, a power attack deals the most amount of damage in a single hit. Upgrading it to ultimate makes it one of the most powerful moves in the game.
You also have 4 characters to choose from. Dan, Josie, Barry, and the custom character. Of the 4 characters, the custom character is the best in the game’s story mode, thanks to the stat boosting clothes you can buy. In the game’s multiplayer mode, clothes do not matter for the custom (as of the first Golden Knight event). In multiplayer mode, the custom character is identical to Dan. Josie is slightly different from Dan, primarily due to her ultimate power attack going all around instead of one direction. Barry has a completely different move set. He deals the weakest amount of damage in a combo, his combo only goes up to three and his jetpack punch deals 50 damage, instead of 60 like the other characters. His ultimate power attack deals a maximum of 60 damage and goes all around like Josie’s, but Barry’s power attack does not move him in any direction. To balance this, Barry has a shotgun with unlimited ammo. His downkick also cannot be upgraded to hit twice, but the duration of the downkick is longer than the other characters. Due to the uniqueness of Barry’s moveset, Barry is very good in multiplayer.
The story was very unique, however the game has 8 webseries episodes you should watch after the prologue to get a better understanding of the story. If you’re like me, you probably didn’t watch the webseries or didn’t know it existed until a few years later. I highly recommend watching the webseries to understand the story better.
To be continued 🙂
DJBendy's Digital Dungeon 