Super Mega Worm Review
Super mega worm leads a simple life. He lives underground in the comfort of cool soil and soothing darkness. He’s got a ravenous appetite, but food is plentiful. Unfortunately for him, he eats surface animals (including humans), and every time he emerges from the dirt he gets shot at by cops and military folks. But that’s life for super mega worm.
You control the worm using either tilt or a slider. We preferred the slider, but even it takes some getting used to. However, the action is so fun that you’ll enjoy it even if precise steering eludes you at first. The worm is incredibly powerful, capable of launching himself out of the ground and into the air, swallowing or destroying everything in his way. Controlling him is almost as satisfying as seeing the people flee in terror.
The people, along with the rest of the game, are drawn in a wonderfully appealing retro style. If there were any hint of realism, this game would be disturbing, but there’s not. The whole game is infused with a great (if twisted) sense of humor that kept us smiling the whole way through. Believe it or not, the main theme of the game is the importance of environmentalism.
Beef and milk in a single serving.
A health meter in the corner of the screen drains steadily, so you always need to be eating to replenish it and stay alive. Staying alive as long as possible is the goal of the game, but of course you’ll die eventually. For some reason the game has no leaderboards, so you won’t be able to see how your killing compares to the rest of the world’s.
As you eat and destroy, you’ll grow longer and gain new powers of destruction, although this takes quite a bit of time. You can even bounce off of trucks and airplanes to bring your murderous appetite into outer space before nosediving back into the ground.
Super Mega Worm’s high level of ridiculousness is its greatest asset. Its lack of leaderboards is a problem, and we wish there was a little more to do in the game, or that the upgrades came quicker. But despite that, we found plenty to love in this game, even if the hero is a hideous man-eating beast.
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