TimeWasters highlights many of the excellent Web-based/lightweight downloadable titles that you can dive into within the space of a lunch break. This week, Chris Gampat explores Cream Wolf.
Cream Wolf is one of the more disturbing games I’ve played, but its makes me laugh hysterically because it was just so, so wrong. Being an Adult Swim game from the Cartoon Network, one can expects this type of craziness. Despite this, it is probably one of the best games I’ve played on that site and I constantly come back for more since I’ve been exploring it for a couple of days now.
The premise of Cream Wolf is this: you’re a hungry werewolf with an appetite…for children. And so you take up a job as an ice cream man living in a secluded area. Everyday/night, you drive out to town to serve them ice cream and fatten them up. On full moons, you lure them back to your hideout and totally rip them to bits.
The gameplay is relatively simple; it requires using “x” and the arrow keys. “X” allows you to play your music so that kids can follow you. Once they come to your truck, a mini game starts up that allows you to put different ice cream cones together. Time it correctly when they are rotating and you’ll score more points. Drive around feeding the kids and collecting ice cream cones in order to feed more kids. The more you feed them, the fatter they become and also the more dedicated a customer they become. Watch out for other drivers because then you get caught and have to start over again.
When the full moon comes, the screen becomes very trippy and you drive around playing your music and luring the kids over to your base. The dedicated customers will follow you until the bitter end, providing you can get to them while avoiding cars. Once there, you become a wolf and need to ravage them all in a certain amount of time. The more you ravage, the more ice cream options/flavors become available and therefore the more kids you can gather. Different colored children like different flavors. For example, blue kids want blueberry.
The music and sounds aren’t really anything special during the normal periods. However, when the trippy scenes start you really experience something a bit scary and perverse. Think Steven King’s IT combined with the scariest episode of the X-Files you’ve ever seen. Hell, they could probably be worked into some trance music and make for some BAMF chiptunes.
The graphics are pleasantly 8-bit. You’ll instantly be transported back to the Game Boy and Nintendo days. That’s not a bad thing at all. In fact, I could actually see this game being made on the Atari and given an NC-17 rating back in the day.
If you’re bored in the office and have a sick sense of humor, you’ll enjoy this game. On a more personal note, a reason why I enjoy this game is because it rips into the millions of Twilight fans that became sided with, “Team Jacob.” I can’t help but imagine all those little fans being lured back to a secluded area with Jacob now and letting him have his way with her them. So no one will ever see or hear from them again.
Still want a piece of Jacob now?
