![]() ![]() In terms of the three major rivals, Tad escapes in a car and flees Hawaii before Al can kill him.Karma Houdini: The CEO gets away with every dirty business trick in the book, and he even gets a Humanitarian award by the end of the game!.It Will Never Catch On: The CEO often insists that video streaming is just a fad.Felony Misdemeanor: Some of the ways The CEO commits the titular shakedowns include things like beating up the cashier and destroying the merchandise, as well as things like clogging the toilet with paper towels and dancing obnoxiously near customers.Evil Versus Evil: None of the characters in the game are traditionally sympathetic.However your character doesn't actually get any spending money until you get the option to set a salary for yourself. You can also unlock various multipliers such as false advertisement, credit cards and untested products to increase the values of the businesses. Several of the businesses require you to perform a Shakedown on the owner in order to make them available for purchase. An Entrepreneur Is You: The main goal of the game is to Take Over the City by buying up properties all over the island.The colors are more realistically tinted compared to the more colorful Retro City Rampage. Darker and Edgier: The game eschews pop-culture Reference Overdosed that adorns Retro City Rampage in favor of Take That! toward modern Mega-Corp business practices.in which you regularly intimidate and kick to submission for the sake of ownership. and how average people earn money in this world? If they're not into crime, White-Collar Crime or not like your protagonist, they're into lowly retail jobs such as cashiers. For instance, every single food and drink seems to be artificial, laced with preservatives, or filled with cost-cutting measures, common video game consoles are overloaded with advertising, so is the internet, also any tech gadgets not only cost a fortune but are also served as a subscription. Crapsack World: Everything in the world exist only to drain people out of their money with various schemes.Not that the opponents and the world at large are any better, though. Corrupt Corporate Executive: The protagonist soon has to resort to this in order to quickly save his business.However, they are dreadfully easy to break out of. Cardboard Prison: Some stores try to drop the person shaking them down into a "Loss Prevention Holding Unit" after they attempt their shakedown. ![]() Capitalism Is Bad: The game is not subtle at all about how this is its main message, being about every single dirty, underhanded, and predatory trick modern Mega Corps use to skirt around the law and government regulations, making their products worse to cut costs while also inflating prices, creating monopolies, and generally conning and fleecing their customers.The last you see of him is escaping Hawaii as a wanted criminal. First he was roped into faking gameplay video to promote "Gamer Cola" and then after having a rather stable shift job, got roped into doing crime with Scooter and Al for "publicity". Butt-Monkey: "Chad" AKA "MC Balm Drop" is this to highly exaggerated levels.Some cashiers will fight you head-on during Shakedowns.Some civilians will retaliate with handguns or baseball bats if you attack them.And Now for Someone Completely Different: The game will occasionally switch characters to focus on The CEO's attempt to rebuild his company, his son Scooter's GTA-esque street crime levels and Al, the "consultant" used to settle affairs overseas whose stages are purely combat oriented.Anachronism Stew: See Retro Universe below.Taking place 30 years after Retro City Rampage, it stars an old, overweight (soon to be) Corrupt Corporate Executive in a quest to save his floundering company via crooked business practices aided by his son and his hired gun, in 16-bit graphics and Synthwave soundtrack. The game uses same gameplay and graphic style as its predecessor (though where Retro City aimed for an 8-bit aesthetic, Shakedown tries to emulate the games of the 16-bit era), but the story this time leans less towards parody, and more heavily towards satire. And yes, you really are reading these last two consoles and dates correctly. It was released on May 7th, 2019 for Microsoft Windows on Epic Games Store, PlayStation 4, Play Station Vita, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch, followed by ports on July 9th, 2020 for the Wii and August 2020 for the Wii U (along with a Windows release via Steam). Shakedown: Hawaii, developed by Canadian studio Vblank Entertainment, is the spiritual sequel to Retro City Rampage. ![]()
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