It’s not often I actually care about a multiplayer game. But this one is different. There’s no killing involved. No blood. No gore. No “AHAHAHA YOU SUX NOOB!!” 10 year old shouting in his mic.
So what exactly is Transformice? For one thing, it has nothing to do with Transformers. Or even transforming mice (yes, that was an Oxymoron moment there). But being able to play as a cute, little brown mouse who wants some cheese.
The object is to control your mouse to the cheese, and make it back to the mouse hole. Sounds simple, yes? It’s not. In each level there are challenges you and your rodent teammates must face to get the cheese. Exploding bombs. Sheer cliffs. Trick floors you can fall through.
But don’t fear. Because you have help in the form of a “Shaman” mouse. A powerful, magic mouse that can summon platforms and stuff to help the others get the cheese. You can easily tell who’s the Shaman with the blue markings on the fur, and the feather on the head. Anyone can be a Shaman. But only one of the top five highest-scoring players can become one. Though it’s so easy to get points.
When you become a Shaman, you have to think fast. Not only do you have a time limit to get the cheese and bring it back to the mouse hole, you got real players that can cuss at you for fucking up. But all you do is basically select something like a board, position the location with your mouse cursor, then press and hold down your Left Mouse button until it’s spawned.
The majority of players, like myself, are noobs to being a Shaman. Some will panic and quit. Others like myself will be going “Shit!” for spawning the wrong object and getting the other mice trapped.
And others will just fall off the cliff and suicide, forcing the other mice to follow him to their deaths like the lemmings they are.
Still, don’t fret if you do suck. I do as well. The comic part is actually from the fucking up! You see, as Shaman you can also make things spazz out and kill everyone.. including yourself if you’re in the way. It’s the physics of the game that make people laugh. One of the best parts of being a Shaman is using the cannonballs. You can fire them at other players, knocking them into the bubbly abyss and watching them yell profane words such as “FFFUUUUUUUU–“.
Bubbly abyss? You remember that I said there’s no blood or gore, right? Try jumping off and where you land turns into bubbles, for some unknown reason.
Back to Shaman powah, sometimes you can have two Shamans in a map. Usually the blue-named one is the good Shaman, and the pink-named one is the bad Shaman. I however have seen that I can actually help out my fellow mice as a pink-named Shaman.
Going past it, let’s talk about actually playing the game. Now, anyone can play. It’s completely free of charge, even if you register. But if you do register, you’ll also “unlock” the power to increase your rank, and join the realtime room chat. It’s not required that you do register, though.
The only setbacks about the game are, the maps often repeat, and there’s no sounds. But sometimes sounds can distract you from the spazzing anvil snake heading right for you.
The other setback is occasionally, the game server will go down in the middle of a round. This is due to either too much stress on the server, or someone crashed it.
Alright, so. You wanna play and get some cheeeeese? Just click this link and put on your mouse face. *_*
You can also download this perfectly safe Adobe Flash Fullscreen version, which is useful for people with low resolutions, such as myself. Just place both files of the zip into a folder, run the exec, then go to File, click Open, then Browse on the window and select the .swf file.
Why are you still reading this for? Go get some cheese! You know you love it. Because this game is damn addicting. So addicting that people are losing sleep and/or late for work due to it.
UPDATE: Just released. Ten new challenge-filled maps (like the spazzing anvil demon), and cheese-purchasable hats/glasses for your mouse to wear to separate you from the crowd.
To buy a hat or a pair of glasses, you must have the required number of cheese. Currently it is ranged from 20 cheese, to 500 cheese.
The # of cheese you collect isn’t your points. But all the cheese you have collected and brought back to the mouse hole safely.
Grind fests are probably going to be a common theme due to this. So expect alot of server downtime.