Mr.President! Reviews

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    Mr.President! is another cash-grab attempt during the last leg of one of the most talked about United States presidential elections. You control a secret service body guard named ♥♥♥♥ Johnson, his nickname unsurprisingly is Rock-Hard, and you must protect presidential candidate Rump from sniper fire, bombs, and even ninjas. It's a slap-stick physics based game, similar in inspiration to that of Goat Simulator.

    So far we've had Campaign Clicker, a couple of Make America Great Again games, and a handful of strategy/simulation titles that've been themed after this popular current event. It goes without saying that among all of them, Mr.President! is indeed different. It's actually worth a few laughs over the course of its 10 level career, and there are bonus "wrestling" levels where you must elbow drop or headbutt Rump. Luckily what this title brings in humor makes up for the awful controls and terrible ragdoll physics.

    Each level is an obstacle course of chairs, crumbling pillars, breakable walls, barrels, swinging tampons (yes), and other hazards that you must either bypass or use to your advantage to get to Rump before the bullet does. The controls are... different, and they're both simple and complex. On one side you have your standard WSAD to move, coupled with the spacebar to jump, left mouse button to ragdoll, and right mouse button to slow down time. On the other side, there are a lot of keys that the developer tells you in-game to "figure out on your own", ones that will make you backflip, crouch, crawl, dance, shove, and other useful manuvers to move Rump out of the line of certain death.

    That being said, Johnson will trip over the smallest pebble more often than not, and his arch nemesis are stairs. This leaves you up to your own creative devices in order to get to Rump before the shot is fired, or the bomb explodes; heck, some levels even have you save him from falling tacos and burning crosses. It can be frustrating at times, and it's not a game that everyone is going to be good at. I personally beat the entire campaign and all of the bonus levels in under an hour and a half, and after I got used to the controls and really bad physics, I didn't find much of a challenge to the game.

    Do not mistake Mr.President! for a pro-(T)Rump game simply because you're repeatedly saving his life. There's a lot of graffiti that supports anti-(T)Rump ideals, and the theme of the campaign gets darker the closer you get to the end; trust me, the end is extremely satisfying for those who do not support this presidential candidate. It starts innocently enough at rallies, and quickly devolves into the anti-abortion, anti-women, KKK, Nazi, pro-nukes, and pro-war topics that have followed (T)Rump's campaign. The game is fun for what it is, but it's also heavily overpriced for its longevity. According to the store page, a portion of the proceeds goes to charity; which one is not included, nor the portion amount. This is really a purchase that's up to the individual, and their political stance. For what it's worth, it's not a terrible physics simulator... but Goat Simulator is so much better.

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