If you’re a fan of frustratingly difficult platformers, crude humor, old NES games, or the AVGN on YouTube, then you should check this game out. It pretty much plays like a NES game, though the graphics and music are *slightly* more modern. It’s hard, but not too hard. It gets easier if you keep practicing, and is very rewarding when you manage to finish a level. There’s also tons of references to NES games, which you’ll probably know from AVGN’s videos, and the music is awesome too.

My only complaint is that it seems to crash quite a lot, especially when I’m near the end of a level. Ugh. Maybe that's just me.

I found it hard to masturbate to this.
Oh well, at least i tried.

The AVGN adventures game is a challenging a yet fun experience the game is really hard so it seems like the diffculty you have experienced when you played those old games as a kid. But what really made this game fun was the nerd's dialogue from picking up a power up to dying for the forty-fouth time. Overall this game is great

James Rolfe agrees to help the Looney Toons play a basketball game vs. alien slavers to determine their freedom.

I've beaten the game, and let me tell you. This game is no cake walk.
Let's start out with me saying I am a big AVGN fan, but I am NOT gonna give this game a 10/10
I feel it deserves more of a 7.5-8.5/10.
Pros:
-The game feels nice and fluent with Xbox 360 controller.
-There is many hidden characters and cameos to find in the game.
-The game is in the style of retro video games, and has many nerd references.
-The game is very rewarding(not kidding when I say I did a 30 minute dance after beating the final boss).
-The game has a difficulty option(which I am surprised it did thanks to the Ghosts n' Goblins game).
Those are just a few of the Pros.
Cons:
-The humor in this game is nothing but AVGN references, nothing else.
-The Game's hidden characters aren't necessary, they are only used to find other cameos.You can beat the whole game with Nerd.
-The game holds extremely cheap deaths, such as the level Boo! Haunted House. You play tunnel vision, and there are death blocks EVERYWHERE.
-The bosses seem to all be the same except for few, they all seem to fly around(Satan,Unicorn,Fred ♥♥♥♥s,Where Did you Learn to Fly?) and others.
-The games cameos make little to no sense except for few. Some that make sense are ♥♥♥♥ Pickle, and Pat The NES Punk. However there is random people such as Angry Joe, and Egoraptor. People who never have been seen in AVGN episodes.
Overall, I recommend this game if you enjoy the 2D platformers still and are up for a challenge.
But let's be honest, if this game didn't have the nerd in it, nobody would have bought it.

This game is basically a step by step recreation of everything the nerd hates, which makes it pretty entertaining

Being bad and poorly designed on purpose doesn't really work.

You know, just because it's AVGN themed doesn't excuse the level design. Intentionally ♥♥♥♥ty level design is still ♥♥♥♥ty level design.

That said, it gives you enough checkpoints to get through each level through trial and error.

Until you get to LAughin' Jokin' Numbnuts.

They didn't even ♥♥♥♥ing try to make the last level somewhat playable, it's just a ♥♥♥♥♥torm of traps, more traps, and even more traps.

Just don't ♥♥♥♥ing buy this game. It's really a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ shame how horribly designed it is.

AVGN Adventures, a game where you play different levels that are a mix of horrible game AVGN has reviewed. There are lots of cameos, cool powerups, characters, and lots of challenge. This game is probably harder than Mega Man games. Also you CAN'T save if you play on Normal or the mode below it, just how NES games could'nt save, well most of them. You can only save on Easy mode... I recommened this game for AVGN fans but if you're not a fan I'm sure you'll like this game, just prepare to die 1,000,000,000,000 times.

If you're looking for a ♥♥♥♥ty game that sucks ♥♥♥, then go away. If you want a top-notch game with insane difficulty even on the Easy Mode with great Spritework, 8-Bit Music, and awesome platforming just like the good ol' NES days, then this game is for you. After you beat this, you'll die enough time times, you'll start swearing like an AVGN. Great Game, Great Buy.

-♦Tomo億Senpie♦

Good game.But SUPER hard already even on EASY seting it is extremely hard too play. enemies are very difficult + you have traps everiwhere and booms ,crazy !!!
I just finished fitst lvl,and i am alvredy raging like Nerd .
But the game is awesome,no problem what so ever whit like music or atmosphere or glitches ,bugs everithing is just fine on that side. Perfect game but more for hardcore players !!!
9/10

I nearly broke my controller after the first 20 minutes. That's how awesome this game is.

Before people get angry, yes I like AVGN, I like challenging platformers, I like chiptune music and 8-bit grapichs, etc. and I really really wanted to like this game.

However, I am also of the opinion that if you are parodying something by doing the same thing ironically and then charging money for it, you are still doing the same thing as the thing you parody, and there lies the real problem: strip away the funny presentation and this is the very type of game that James Rolfe makes fun of in his videos, a game filled with fake difficulty to artificially pad out the play time.

Yes, I get it, it's meta jokes, and the jokes are fun... the first time, then comes the major grind to actually beat the levels with insane unfair difficulty. The levels are fairly well designed in of themselves and are amusingly parodying many of the games reviewed on the show, but the platforming controls are rather stiff, hitboxes are often bigger/smaller than they look and obviously the game does everything to kill you as much as possible, though not in a funny "invisible block near a pit" kind of way which would give it a bit of a puzzle element, here it's just by throwing a lot of ♥♥♥♥ at you at once and having you deal with it through sheer pressure.

Also while other fake difficulty parody games like I Wanna Be That Guy at least have the decensy to not throw you back to the beginning unless you pick the higher difficulties when you die, here it does just that on everything but Easy when running out of extra lives which I find to be a major flaw from a modern perspective, no matter how retro or thematically appropriate it is. And before you say "just go play on Easy then", I would if it didn't give me more HP than normal, make bosses stupidly easy to beat and lock off several achivements, which obviously isn't very enjoyable, and it still doesn't fix the hitbox and stiff controller issue.

Ignoring the difficulty, the game is also rather short. If you get good at this I could imagine you would be able to beat the entire thing in 2-3 hours, though it does have a fair ammount of hidden secrets and replay value for the really really hardcore crowd when you unlock the truly ridicolous difficulty levels, so it's not that big of a problem, but still worth noting.

Basically, if you don't mind NES games that beat your ♥♥♥ with fake difficulty to the max and aren't affraid to start from the beginning of a stage (or the game itself) every time you die, you will probably love this game. Fans of AVGN may also appreciate the referencial humor to both the show itself and the games that he have played. However, the game still isn't up to modern standards in many respects, and it is rather hypocritical, and therefor I cannot recommend it to everyone. It's basically an extremely niche title with a (relatively) mass appeal brand attached to it, but if you don't fall into that niche it might not be worth the frustration no matter how much you like AVGN. If Steam had a "middle" option I would have picked that, but for now I am sad to say I will have to give it a thumbs down personally.

Also, I think James did a disadvantage to the game by reviewing it himself and showing off all the best bits in the video, made playing the actual thing feel a bit less special.

AVGN Adventures tries to be the kind of game the Nerd goes crazy over because it is horrible. And it is. The game is unnecessarily unfair because of floaty controls, inaccurate hit detection, and absolutely annoying respawning enemies.
Or my favourite, the one-hit death blocks.

Just because the game is aware of how horrible it is and criticizes its own difficulty in fourth wall breaking dialogue -- which, to be fair, does match the spirit of the AVGN perfectly -- does not make it a good game.

Unlike actual hard games from the NES era, think of the Megamans and the like, this game simply frustrates the hell out of me and gives me no incentive to want to continue other than seeing more AVGN style death quotes.

Skip it or get it only on a huge discount.

This game is brutal and devilshly ingenius in its design. Every time you die its your fault not the games and the game does it on an irritating and hardcore manner. It punches you in the balls and flips you off at the the same time, it makes it personnel and dares you you to come back back for more, but when you conquer ANYTHING in this game its like winning the superbowl, while getting a high 5 from Chuck Norris's beard fist. In short its hard as hell but so gratifying in the end.

This game is a great platformer full of angering deathtraps, insane bosses and level design, and that classic AVGN humor. Influenced by some of the greatest (and worst) of the 8-bit era, This game is gonna take you back to the past! and.. y'know... I'm also an achievement. so I can't complain in the least, even though this game has made me swear, kick up a storm, and blatantly damage my own controller.

Run, Jump, Shoot, Die.

Though this game is somewhat of a novelty it plays true to the world that James Rolfe has created. Being a long time AVGN fan I can say that, if you are the same as me and have been following the nerd then you will appreciate supporting him by purchasing the game and having some fun with the game.

My biggest complaint is the this game is DAMN hard, and as it should be, being remeinscient of NES hard titles, it likes to take all of the biggest annoying things of the old school video game design and bring them about for a laugh or too.

You can beat the levels I beat 2 of them, but I struggled, and I don't know if it was worth, it's aggravating, and it's awesome everything that I think they were trying to capture with this game design.

Much like the AVGN himself, this game just tries too hard to be funny and clever, and ends up being unoriginal and dull. If anyone should have known how to fashion a good NES-styled game, it should be someone who's played and reviewed hundreds of them, no? Sadly...no.

Yes this is going to get hated but its kinda sad when games like Akane the kunoichi are better at being platformers than this game. The major problem with AVGN is quite simply "we forgot people would be paying money for this." the satire about a person being trapped in a bad game you play is largely lost when you have to shell out money to play a bad game.

That's really the feeling I got the whole way through the game, the tropes and nods to the AVGN series are funny and entertaining but the bad game gets in the way quite hard. I really think they tried so hard to capture the "crap nes era experiences" that they forgot not only would people have to play this game but people would be paying money. its almost like it'd been less offensive to me had I paid for a movie instead, to watch someone else suffer through the game for my amusement than play the game myself.

What makes this game terrible? death blocks that kill you instantly just to touch them which are EVERYWHERE to the point it felt like "we couldn't come up with something here so we'll fill content with these cheap deaths". "I wanna be the guy" style tricks and barebones mechanics are all over this game, however IWBTG was free and this you pay money for, so it makes things a lot more sour.

If you are an AVGN fan you already own this game so I wont be convincing you, but to anyone else looking at this game as a person looking for a platformer to play I def say wait for a sale, because the only appeal of this game comes from the tropes and humor nods to the series, the gameplay is powerglove bad. when I beat the game I did not feel like a winner, I felt like I used drugs.