Chubby Mess - Dunkelschwamm

  


    Fight tons of chumtoads in this very short map. Watch fun cutscenes where scientists mess up (who could have seen that coming!), fight a bunch of chumtoads, kill a boss, and celebrate victory.

SCMapDB page

Author: the-middleman

Date of release: 2014

Maps in package: 2 (includes another map we didn't play or review)

Map review of Chubby Mess

(originally posted on SCMapDB)

by GrandmasterJ | July 23, 2023 | 1077 characters

    Chubby Mess is a real short map that certainly had a vision. There's an opening cutscene that very naturally (if a little drawn-out) explains the situation: science did what science shouldn't, mixing big and many and chumtoads. The result is a chubby mess.

    There are three phases to the map: first run from masses of snarks (chubbies) spawning in huge casecading numbers, then run back the way you came to destroy the mother chubby with explosives. The third part comes before both: the aforementioned very long cutscene.

    When the map starts, players have only the medkit. After the initial flight, players are given a bunch of things, like an M16 with underbarrel grenades, a shotgun, and an RPG. This makes cleaning up the rest of the map pretty easy over all, but thrilling and a spectacle nonetheless.

    Overall, give Chubby Mess a go. It takes like no time at all, has a funny cutscene, and has more chubbies your eyeballs can fathom.

Pros:

  • The intro cutscene does a great job of explaining how the problem happened. It's clever and cute
  • The chubby spawners are really effective, and a spectacle to behold
  • It feels great to get armed after initially running from the chaos
  • The cutscene-chase-retaliate formulate isn't taken advantage of often in Sven Co-op. It's used to great effect here
  • Map looks decent

Cons:

  • Chubby mother looks pretty bad
  • While visually exciting, defeating the chubby mess is a pretty simple matter overall
  • The cutscene does go on long after I was like "Yeah I get it." This is owed mostly to how stiff scientists are with their blocking and business.

Score: 7.9 / 10

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