P rank the Funny War level _ Pizza Tower

Imagine being in the FUCKIN trenches and you see an italian man running mach 12 through your entire squad and you, and all because you brought a watch with you and your squad happened to stand in a horizontal line.

some of the sprites for this game are fucking feral

According to Pizzatowerguy/McPig, Peppino is a veteran so this level was hell to go through as it was for the rest of us.

I love how some of the combo rankings are "unclean", "ill-willed", and stuff that sounds like you're playing a hack n slash with psychological themes/demonic imagery when you're actually playing as a man literally named "Peppino Spaghetti" running at mach 5 with a shotgun

Peppino is so feral that he avoids landmines by running over them faster than they can explode An absolute beast

hell yeah man you gotta love how Peppino's reward for kicking progressively more ass is visible improvement in his self-image it's cheering.

pizza face is an asshole who seems to be out to torture peppino for no real reason, including traumatizing him, so the ending is one of the greatest payoffs of all time.

Honestly the P rank is one of the most brilliant optional challenges I've ever seen in a video game. The fact that every level can be finished in one combo is an absolutely genius design choice.

I love how the combo counter gets more and more uncomfortable with the actions that are taking place after a certain threshold.

This is what Wario Land on copious amounts of coke would be like lmao

This character seems to be experiencing all possible emotions at once. This is gonna be a hell of a speedgame.

Small panicked pizza man furiously fighting to save his livelihood and having ptsd is a very good videogame trope that we just dont see anymore. This game rocks

words cannnot do it justice, this game is fucking insane, its off your meds padded white room insane, im fully convinced the dev played the whole game in his head before even coding or drawing it. this isnt a reflection of artistic vision, its the version that lives in your head, the one without budget or logic or a need to justify design desisions. its nuts and i fuckin love it

Since Peppino is rumored to be a War Veteran, imagine being in the goddamn trenches of World War 2 in 1942 and just seeing a 3 foot tall Italian jump out of a trench and kill 5 people in a matter of seconds by running into them

I've already said this, but there is something so visceral about this level. The funny Italian man you play as has a PTSD-induced mental breakdown as marching and sargent’s whistles play in the background of the OST, as he goes wild with a shotgun while simultaneously hallucinating his friend fighting alongside him. Even potentially seeing enemies as humans, which so far haven’t been actual enemies. The saddest part of it all is how after the war he became an indebted anxious wreck, something which most veterans suffer from. I’m probably overlooking this and some people have said that PTG has ret-conned this, but it’s too good of a coincidence for me not to comment on.

This game has a stronger sense of momentum than any Sonic installment

War is hard enough on it’s own. Now getting a P rank on it really takes some dedication, wow.

I love how every level is like, food themed, and then there's just "War"

Listening closely, this all but confirmed my theory they used a bit of frog DNA while making Fake Peppino here, as the Peppino Clone enemies seem to make genuine frog noises. Maybe for the most part, that was ironed out with Fake Peppino, but it still seems genuinely unfinished visually, with the unstable solidity, unmerged and unmoving eyes, disgruntled and gibberish "speech", etc. It even learned how to asexually reproduce infinitely.

As an Italian I can confirm that this is what we have to go trough