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To Hell With The Ugly

ARTE Experience · May 30, 2023

PC · PS5 · Series X|S · PS4 · Xbox One · Switch

Mature

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You’re Rocky, a 20 year old young man with a certain charm that doesn’t go unnoticed. After a night out at the Zooty Slammer, you wake up in a strange hospital, kidnapped and drugged. Whatever they did to you last night, they did it. And now it’s too late for apologies, you need to get to the bottom of this… Rocky style. ABOUT TO HELL WITH THE UGLY Finalist in the 2023 IGF awards in “Excellence in Visual Arts” and showcased in the Day of the Devs 10th anniversary, To Hell With the Ugly is an adventure game set in a 1950s LA film noir setting. Play as Rock Bailey, a blond and handsome young man who systematically refuses all advances made to him. To the dismay of everybody around him, he stubbornly saves himself until the day he turns 20. Everything changes when he is drugged and kidnapped outside the Zooty Slammer jazz club and wakes up in a strange hospital. They stole something from him, something very personal, and he wants revenge. Help Rocky get to the bottom of this mystery and find out the truth behind it. To Hell with the Ugly is an adventure game with a focus on narration. Rocky has already lost part of his pride, he won’t shy away from combat if it takes him closer to the revenge he seeks. With his journalist partner Gary, they will have to gather clues from crime scenes and use them to make assumptions and solve puzzles, explore all the nooks and crannies of 1950s LA and let their fists do the talking in turn-based combat.

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  • TheXboxHub

    Dave Ozzy · Jul 19, 2023

    7.0
    We were sprinting to the end of To Hell With The Ugly with a very strong score in mind – until that ending hit. It’s thrown us for a loop, as the characters would say. But it undercuts everything else so dramatically that we can’t help reflect it in the score. Which is a shame, as this jazz-tinged narrative adventure is as stylish as it is daft, and we don’t get enough of its like on the Xbox.

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