The Final Specimen: Arrival

THis game starts of promissing with a decent music and decent arwork but immediatly you notice that there are no options, then you get thrown into a level of tubes with spykes at the sides even thoug you cant move in this pipe, only stay in the middle. the enmies that get thrown at you with no warning are easily killed but you first have to discover that you have to fight them and cant evade. this game broke me completely on level 3 where you encounter a bunch of pipes with arrows byut when you push the smae way as those arrows nothing happens and you still get thrown in to acid, every single time. due to this level and the price I dont reccomend buying this game my video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyvsGzMPccw

The “Extra-Life” -- the original gaming MacGuffin. As a kid, nothing matched the feeling of excitement when discovering a 1-Up in a secret area -- it was my first brush with an endorphin rush, and it’s where my love for gaming began. Though over time, the extra-life has slowly become somewhat of an antiquated notion; a relic of the gaming past. I never realized the nostalgic weight behind that feeling until I played The Final Specimen: Arrival, and when I found that glowing “T” in the suburban bushes of Doofusville. It’s a feeling I didn’t realize how much I had missed as a gamer, and it also made me convinced as to why TFS is a truly special entry in contemporary gaming. Modernity never graces itself anywhere throughout TFS in all avenues, allowing the player to resign themselves to an earlier time in gaming, and without compromise. The result: the player sinks into their seat, and a familiar feeling settles in and the player embarks on an uncontaminated, and highly sen...

Classic 90's platformer for sure. Has all the charm of the old games, with the frusration, confusion, and ultimate satisfaction with beating a level. Very solid ode to the old. Makes me feel like I was at the rental store, and this was my weekend game. Fun play, haven't beat it yet, but so far it has had a good learning curve. If you are itchin' for a nostalgic 90's platformer to bring back your childhood, look no further.

this game LOOKS like it was made in ms paint, but that is fine and so is everything else

I definitely recommend this game. The cartoony graphics are endearing and sometimes hilarious, the mechanics are simple but quite varied thoughout the game, the music is great, and the story is pretty funny. The hand-drawn style of the artwork is fairly unique, yet still gives the feel of an early 90's game. Easy mode is fairly straight forward, but hard mode provides a definite challenge. Definitely try out this game if you enjoy nostalgic platformers where you die a lot while laughing at the various ways you can die. One thing that is missing is the ability to continue where you left off between sessions. I think a standard save feature would take away from the challenge of the game, but I don't want to have to beat the whole thing in one sitting. Hopefully this feature is added soon.

When I first saw this game, I thought it was cheap because of the pixelated graphics. However, on further looks, I decided to give this game a chance. I started playing the game and loved its story, soundtrack, mechanics and envoirment (ironicly). The only thing I didn't like was the default controls, which I had to change at the beginning of the game. The Final Speciaman Arrival had 2 goals and did both of them very well. The first was to be comedic, and boy oh boy people don't seem to get this. The reason the game is made with the MS paint graphics is to be comedic! People would usually just use the graphics as source material for criticism. If you could just read the game description! The second goal this game had was to imitate platform games from the 90's they didn't do this to well but it does have the nostalgatic feeling of games like Super Mario Brothers. This was probably my favourite part of the game where you got to fight enemies and bosses with unique patterns in a unique w...

Very nice!!

I like the gameplay of this game, and it definetly has it appeal. It's really goofy, and it reminds me of something you would have watched on newgrounds. I'm not a fan of the graphics, and I know it's supposed to be that way. It's such a weird game to me, but the worst part has to be the music. I absolutely hate the music in this game, it's just so obnoxious and repetitive. It made me not want to continue at all. I'm a 90s kid, and this definetly made me feel like I was playing a low budgeted 90s game where you find at a flea market or something. The game is decent, but I just don't see myself recommending it. I feel bad, because the developers probably did his best to replicate that 90's type of pc gaming feeling. Which they succesfully did. I grew up playing snes capcom games, and I never really played games on pc back then. I was just never a fan of those pc games with questionalable graphics, and art style. This is one of those games where the gameplay is great, but the art style a...

The Final Specimen: Arrival is a funny and old school style game. Each level has its own unique challenges that keep you thinking and wondering what is coming up next especially the boss fights. Definitely recommend this game to everyone not just fans of 90s style games.

I'm not much of a gamer but it did hearken me back to the days of 90's PC games, not only that but it had a certain Rick & Morty, meets Mario Bros in Pitfall land vibe that was pretty fun! I'd recommend to 90's PC junkies and old time gaming system users like myself who enjoy having to figure out entertaining levels. Love the music!