Jay and Silent Bob Taking Gaming In The Duo's First Video Game
Yes, there's drug activity. Duh.
Kevin Smith is still making movies. Really, that should probably be the headline here. Red State was pretty decent, if not bizarre. Tusk had some ingenious body horror that really faltered up until about a third of the way through the movie, but that walrus suit was pretty sweet. Oh, and Jason Mewes still exists, puttering around with Kevin Smith. So for some
Now, now. You might think Kevin Smith has enough money to fund a game himself, what with Clerks being the cult hit it was and people still quoting it to this day for reasons which I cannot fathom. In any case, the game's called Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt
Chronic Blunt Punch is a side-scrolling 2.5D multiplayer brawler where Jay and Silent Bob have to seek out their "long-lost pot customers" who are trapped in an Orwellian mega super shopping mall. It is a "Utopian labyrinth" and you've got to clear out the mall as you head through it, likely kicking, punching, and slapping anyone who gets in your way.
Getting a look at early images of the game, however, I think it should have been an RPG rather than yet another brawling game. These graphics lend themselves well to what could be an interesting and surreal RPG, but instead we'll probably be stuck with lackluster multiplayer button-mashing. Kevin Smith is surprisingly insightful in many of his projects, so maybe this will be more interesting than it sounds.
If you want to be involved, you can head over to the project's Fig page and fund it
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replyBrittany Vincent posted a new article, Jay and Silent Bob Taking Gaming In The Duo's First Video Game
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Nah, seems way to early to me.
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I'm gonna say 15 years too late.
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Yeah, a GBA-era handheld J&SB action RPG would have went over very well around the time that Strikes Back was released, but no one in their right mind would have touched that with a 10 meter cattle prod. A game, based on a series of pretty hard R rated movies (ostensibly with drug references), that the highest grossing of which was a controversial religious comedy (Dogma was his highest grosser to date and Strikes Back barely made more money than Dogma).
Heck, even one based on the all-too-short lived Clerks cartoon would have went well and fit with the source material but that ship sailed a long time ago. If the Penny Arcade guys could make like, 4 games or whatever they ended up with, it is surprising (but not that surprising) that someone would have made a game based on Kevin Smith's Viewaskewniverse before now, when 50 Fingers is making...what, the third of his trilogy of terrible horror films, then Mallrats 2 and then Clerks 3?
Back to the well, indeed.
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