![]() The RiG can be used to pick up and move pretty much anything in the game world, including enemies. The RiG is, as described earlier, sort of a laser-lasso type thing: imagine a grappling hook mixed with Indiana Jones’ whip mixed with a crane arm mixed with a Ghostbusters proton pack, and that’s the RiG. What really sets Wild 9 apart from other action platformers is Wex’s main weapon, the RiG, and the puzzles that result from its implementation. While the game is rendered in full 3D, you can only move within two dimensions (the freefall stages, which I will get to in a moment, notwithstanding). Wild 9 is a 3D side-scrolling platformer with action elements. Each member of the nine has a special power they can give to Wex: one character is an indestructible human bomb, another is a living battery, and so on. ![]() Only nine rebels in the entire universe have the power to stop him (the titular Wild 9), and their leader, Wex, has to travel from planet to planet to collect them. Wild 9 is a cartoony romp, full of innocuous violence and sometimes awful, sometimes hilarious one-liners by the surfer-dude hero, Wex.īasically, the story goes like this: an Evil Alien Robot Thing has laid waste to the galaxy. The preliminary advertisements for Wild 9 included the line (and I’m summarizing, because it was nine effing years ago), “Who pissed off the guys at Shiny?” The implication of the marketing was that Dave Perry, producer of the friendly Earthworm Jim games, had decided to make a much darker and more malicious side-scroller with Wild 9 than the company had ever produced before. Hit the jump to see Shiny’s bastard child of sidescrolling. Wild 9, a 3D side-scroller where the hero uses a space-lasso to torture and murder his enemies, is one of these games. You may be one of the unlucky few whose only understanding of Shiny Entertainment came from the regrettably subpar Matrix games, but rest assured that there was indeed a time when Dave Perry’s studio pumped out a few truly fun games. If you think “Shiny,” you should either think of (A) a slang word from the Firefly universe used to denote something pleasing, or (B) the development company that created Earthworm Jim.
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