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| 90snostalga:
Do you know off the top, if there are any great platformers other than the Mario games? |
| badATchaos:
Binary Land is okay. The difficult curve really ramps up fast. It definitely has a lot of charm though. Most of the good platformers that were in Japan also came to NA/EU. There's a lot of bad ones that didn't make it over. ;) I haven't played it myself but I guess Kid Dracula is suppose to be good. Although it might not be a "true" platformer. Some people enjoy the Wagyan Land series. I wasn't too impressed personally. The one I played felt like a less fun Kirby. I found a couple in my lot that were okay. Nothing close to Super Mario Bros quality but still enjoyable. Ninja Hattori-kun and Ninja JaJaMaru-kun. They both start off kind of slow but get better. Another (non-platformer) game I just thought of was Bird Week. I heard other people mention it before on other forums. I ended up getting it in that lot of Famicom games I bought, and as it turns out its not that bad. Really cute game. You play as a mother bird collecting bugs to feed your chicks. When you feed them enough the grow up and fly away, and you proceed to the next level. The further you get the more enemy animals (like hawks) are out to kill you. Funny enough out of that 100 game lot it's probably the only one I'm gonna keep. Not that the other ones are bad per-say.... ;) |
| badATchaos:
If you want a laughably bad game there's Sherlock Holmes: Hakushaku Reijou Yuukai Jiken. One of the games I picked up in that lot. The game is mostly top-down with platforming sections. I think the developer had a good premise for a game but just failed. Failed hard. You play has Mr. Holmes trying to solve a kidnapping of this young girl. As you wonder around the cityscapes looking for clues everyone is trying to kill you. Your only imitate means of defense is to kick the living day lights out of people. You soon find yourself kicking henchmen and little old ladies alike! I mean, no one wants you to solve this mystery. It's like these towns folk don't want you to this girl or something. That doesn't deter good old Sherlock. For clues you basically have to interrogate people. It order to initiate a conversation you have to kick the crap out of them first; then they tell you what you want. (Or at least I think they do. I can't tell because it's all in Japanese.) You also collect money the same way. Which you need in order to progress to the next town to find clues. So... maybe that's why the towns people hate you. Because you just go around kicking and robbing everyone. Makes sense. In the platforming sections are weird too. For example the kick and jump button are one in the same. So somethings if your jumping across a gap you might kick something or someone on the other side you didn't mean to. During the first platforming section I met up with a henchmen with a gun and once you meet one there isn't much you can do. They're projectiles are so fast that if they appear unexpectedly there's no way you can avoid it, you're dead. Not just dead: Game Over. You only have one life and no continues. On top if it all the hit detection (if you want to call it that) is pretty bad. Some enemies might take one hit to kill but you'll probably attack 3 or 4 times before you'll hit anything because the animation is so awkward. As an enemy is touching you they do constant damage to your life bar. So if you get swarmed by 4 or 5 enemies at once you're dead in a few seconds if you don't get the heck out of there. |
| foxhack:
Maybe I'm a little bit biased here, but I recommend Akumajou Special: Boku Dracula Kun!, Wai Wai World 2: SOS Paseri Jou!, Yume Penguin Monogatari, and Kyattou Ninden Teyandee. ::) Bonus: You don't need to know Japanese to enjoy these games, there's no language requirement to play and complete them. |
| badATchaos:
Yeah, Yume Penguin Monogatari looks good. I'll have to pick it up at some point. Are the Penguins suppose to be from Binary Land? Their design is very similar. |
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