A Sega platformer full of absurd humour where you play a headless hero who throws his own head at enemies. Charming, funny and underrated.
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Platformer1 player7+
Description
The player guides Chuck D. Head throwing his detachable head as a projectile in this Sega comic Mega Drive platformer. Published by Sega, released in Europe in July 1991. Comic platformer with Chuck whose detachable head serves as a weapon, varied levels and inventive bosses.
DEcapAttack review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
3/5
Music
★★★★★
"Memorable"
2/5
Story
★★★★★
"Classic"
The graphic idea holds in a gag sustained throughout: a headless hero, his torso adorned with a face, who unhooks his skull and throws it forward. The swamp, tomb and cloud scenery takes up that macabre humour with grinning bones and bone-shaped platforms, in a surprisingly bright palette.
DEcapAttack, a Sega platformer of absurd humour where the headless hero hurls his own at enemies, released in Europe. Its collector interest comes from a status as an underrated gem, long overlooked then rehabilitated. The European print stays modest, and the favoured target is the complete boxed copy, now less common for this quiet classic.
