Dick Wilde 2 Delivers

Blast away incoming enemies, lean out of the way of attacks, rinse and repeat. It’s one of the cleaner, more concise takes on the genre. There’s no spinning you around in circles or tying you up in needless plot.

Dick Wilde 2 is incredibly simple: you move down a river raft while dodging projectiles, blowing up obstacles, and firing like mad at everything from angry birds to killer rat men. I’m not quite clear on exactly what happened to turn all of these animals both sentient and homicidal, but I’m glad that it did.

A wide range of enemy types and the cartoonish color scheme are some of the game’s highlights. You’ll fire wildly at deadly mollusks, kamikaze moles riding drills straight at your raft, poison-shooting snakes, jellyfish who generate an impervious electrical barrier, projectile-flinging beavers, and even fireball-spitting frogs.

With a solid combo of southern fried humor and fun shooting mechanics, there’s really not much to lose by trying out Dick Wilde 2.