Call Lo Wang for a good time!
Lo Wang makes prank calls, funny remarks when dismembering others with his sword, can jump really high and move really fast. He also happens to be Chinese and speaks English with an accent. Some reviewers think that this portrayal is racist and therefore the game is not merely bad, but morally repugnant. If you agree with them, don't play. No one's forcing you. Everyone else can download and enjoy some of the most fun I've had in a game for ages, and 2019 is the first time I've played this game so it's not just nostalgia.
I played this free GOG version of the game with ProASM's source port instead of the bundled dosbox, and with his high res texture pack. This makes it look like the redux version. I don't think I could stand the extra pixelated dos version, and I didn't really want to buy the redux version.
I'm not sure if the original has cut scenes. It certainly didn't when I played with the ProASM source port. There is a story linking the levels but one level jumps to another in a jarring way. For example, one level you're in a floating sky fortress, and the next you're in an airport where a plane has crashed into the building but there's no cutscene or explanation to transition between the two. The gameplay is great so I didn't mind that much but it would have been nice to have some sort of story to fill in the gaps.
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