That incorrigible “-hero” suffix is at it again, and much like its “-punk” cousin, is turning up in the strangest of places. While the fashioning of instruments from saliva-smeared bottles is usually the domain of toothless, overalls-clad bumpkins boldly wielding shotguns and inhabitingDeliverance-esque backwaters, the trend of turninganyinstrument at hand into a music sim has triumphed over this unjust assumption withJug Hero.Seriously, even I can’t make this kind of thing up.
Kevin Lim and Shawna Hein, the creators ofJug Hero, claim to have created the game out of a desire for “a more collaborative play dynamic in music games”, but the numerous empty bottles of Mississippi Mud seeminglyvitalto the game’s existence may betray their true intentions.Jug Heroand all the embarrassingly explicit facial contortions it requires will be at this year’sMaker Faire. Those of you in the Bay Area owe it to yourselves to go and have a look at this bold new evolution in the genre of music sims.
