The Last Eichhof
“The Last Eichhof is a very interesting game. It's amusing at best.”
Made around the same time as SPISPOPD, The Last Eichhof is a vertical scrolling shmup created by a couple of guys in Switzerland. Considering its status of neutrality, it's up to its denizens to find their own conflicts. In this case, you take the role of a beer bottle who shoots down other varieties of alcohol in order to save the Eichhof brewery from corporate sellout.[1] How amazing! The last time anyone has witnessed a work of entertainment that expresses a concern regarding free enterprise and be funny would be Wonder Showzen from '06 to '07.
A better explanation of what's going on[edit | edit source]
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After deploying your beer bottle, you go out and shoot down the afformented varieties of alcohol in order to gain as many litres of brew as possible instead of aiming for points. In the middle of a level, you can go to the pub and buy 6 more bottles to help your central bottle. Besides the usual drinks, you'll have to face off against the likes of the Windows logo, Pac-Man, the MacIntosh Apple logo, and the flying toaster screensaver. With 5 levels, this should be capable of providing a decent amount of entertainment to the player in question. If samples taken from the TV sitcom Parker Lewis Can't Lose or music from Edelweiss and Pink Floyd wouldn't entice you from trying this unique title, then I don't know what will. In other news, the source code is now free- allowing for variations on the adventure whether it'd be sequels or your own original opus. You can even have it surround any of the major Illogicopedian events if you want to! That'd be really nice, don't you think?
Film[edit | edit source]
With permission from the developers, The Last Eichhof is going to be made into a movie; in fact, development for it is going on right now!
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Notes[edit | edit source]
- ↑ [1] Eichhof is the local brewery of Lucerne, Switzerland. Unlike most other large Swiss breweries, who were bought out by international enterprises, they still remain the largest independent brewery of Switzerland today. This accounts for the plot of this game: the enemies you're battling are all somehow related to other big breweries, like the castle of Feldschlösschen (the biggest Swiss brewery) or the logo of Löwenbräu from Munich, Germany. You have to fight them off in order to prevent them from buying out the Eichhof brewery, hence the title of the game.