Blog:Penguin Dash in a Nutshell

Penguin Dash in a Nutshell is a game on Scratch that was made by PokemonYesDoraNo. The game was a remix of Penguin Dash 1 and was published to the site on July 29, 2019. However, it was criticized for its extreme difficulty, soundtrack, and bad presentation.

Plot
The Great Element melted all of Antarctica and the penguin has to defeat The Great Element to stop Antarctica from melting. To stop him however, he must defeat the bosses in a battle to return them back to normal and then defeat The Great Element once for all.

Gameplay
The player controls the protagonist, Penguin by pressing the left and right arrow keys to move the protagonist, pressing the up button will allow the protagonist to jump and the player can use their mouse to progress through some sections of the game. The player must go through five worlds by platforming from background to background while avoiding the lava. The player now takes twice the amount of damage compared to the original and it's basically a more challenging version of the original game. There's obstacles that can even instant-kill the player.

Why It Intentionally Sucks
=Redeeming Qualities==
 * 1) First of all, this game is notorious for it's extremely unforgiving difficulty that can give even some of the hardest Super Mario levels a run for its money. Examples include the following such as:
 * 2) *On the title screen, the logo has been replaced with text telling the player to "Press F to play", doing so would result a jumpscare by the K-Fee Zombie then leading to the player to get rickrolled, this is the only easy part of the game.
 * 3) *It is also extremely punishing to win considering that every time the player dies. They have to restart all the way back to World 1.
 * 4) *Poor level design throughout the game.
 * 5) *The level design mostly contains levels that require the player to perform extremely precise jumps.
 * 6) **The second scene of the first world has a fast moving cow in which the player must step on the cow otherwise they will be killed by the lava.
 * 7) **Some scenes use orange to disguise lava, though it's easy to figure out the difference.
 * 8) **Some scenes contains extremely thin platforms to where it's nearly impossible to land on them, especially if there's lava.
 * 9) **One scene in world four requires the player to bounce to the other side.
 * 10) The bosses are also extremely frustrating due to their artificial difficulty, all of them have extremely high health.
 * 11) **The first boss (Bad Johnathon) is basically luck, there's a 1/3 chance of a button appearing. It scrolls way too fast to where the player may die since it's worsened by the fact that the player bounces after jumping. He takes twenty hits to kill.
 * 12) **The second boss (Bad Girl) is not too bad, though it's annoying since there's a 666 that goes to random places which can bring in unpredictable difficulties. She takes twenty hits to kill.
 * 13) **The third boss (Grayscale Bird) throws feathers at extremely fast rates, requiring the player to click-mash in order to win. Worse, a error in the code where at -8 health, the boss would refuse to die regardless of what the player does, making the boss unbeatable. He takes twenty hits to kill.
 * 14) ***Speaking of errors, after defeating the said boss. The game would softlock to where penguin couldn't access the next level.
 * 15) **The fourth boss (Baby Sheep) throws wool so fast to where it's near impossible to avoid them, even at infinite health. The player must constantly bounce on the boss in order to defeat the boss. He takes thirty-one hits to kill.
 * 16) **The final boss (Element) is by far the worst final boss, as it has fast pace attacks along with a extremely high health bar, taking one hundred and two hits to kill.
 * 17) ***To add insult to injury, the final boss has a final phase where elements would constantly clone themselves which will instantly kill the player thanks to the random position script.
 * 18) The soundtrack for the game is pure earrape.
 * 19) *Before the sound editor was patched, users can make sound effects very loud. The developer used this in order to make songs play at full blast.
 * 20) **The normal version of Rickroll and the "but it gets faster" variant are both extremely loud.
 * 21) **Worlds 1, 2, 4, and the first phase of the final boss are at full blast, which can possibly damage speakers.
 * 22) It also tries to be hip and cool with outdated memes such as Penguin dabbing when the player beats a world.
 * 23) *Originally, when the player died; there would be outdated memes such as "Wombo Combo" and "GET NOSCOPED!" playing.
 * 24) *A sprite is called "IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZOR", which is basically a laser used in the World 2 boss.
 * 25) *Zazoo Kid shows "Press Z" though it does not associate with the Zazoo Kid.
 * 26) Some of the world names don't make any sense such as World 3, which is called North Korea.
 * 27) The plot is generic as it's basically the cliched "x stops y by defeating z" plot.
 * 1) The game can be funny to certain audiences due to how bad it is.
 * 2) Some of the soundtrack is at normal volume such as World 3 and the final phase of the final boss are at normal volume.

The Game
You can play the game here.