Beavis & Butthead: Do U (PC)
Not your ‘typical’ lame-brained adventure.
To be totally honest, after getting Windows XP running, this is one of two games I had to review (the other being Goosebumps Escape from Horrorland).
My folks may have despised Beavis & Butthead but we still somehow managed to get the game Beavis & Butthead: Do U; a point and click adventure game through a college campus in the hopes of an amazing party with chicks.
I mention in the review, we’ve had a lot of exploratory type games set in and around their high-school and home town (Virtual Stupidity for the PC and the two separate console Beavis and Butthead games for the Sega Mega Drive and Super Nintendo). Taking the boys out of familiar territory probably gave the development team a little more room to breathe and even though there’s appearances by Stuart and Van Driessen, characters like Todd, Principal McVicker and Daria are all absent.
Compared to the cartoon series (which was actually on hiatus for several years before this game came out), Do U is a bit vanilla. Beavis and Butthead get up to plenty of destruction, but nothing too malicious or violent. The boys are funny and there’s still a good element of toilet humour but I feel a game like this would have really benefited with some ‘bad’ endings where the boys get beaten up or some kind of enemies that harass you. In Do U, you’re free to wander the campus at your own pace, practically annoying everyone and everything.
That’s my final complaint, there’s only one ending you can get. Point and Click adventures have abysmal re-playability, so I suppose if there’s any element they’re going to skimp on, I’d choose it to be multiple pathways but with so many ways to fail, it’s a shame they didn’t try and incorporating a few alternatives.
If you’re a fan of Beavis & Butthead, Do U is a solid adventure title that came out when the fans needed it most. Like most games we play here at the Leftover Culture Review, you probably won’t think so highly of the game if you’re not a big fan of that franchise. It’s dripping with Beavis & Butthead humour and as far as the TV shows and even the movie are concerned, it’s a medium where you’ll be spending a lot more time with the boys, so be prepared for an onslaught of awesomely terrible humour, terrible people and extremely feeble attempts at getting laid by college sluts.