The SNES was my second gaming console. When I came to Germany (I am Russian) I bought it for like 23 bucks, along with games. I always bought some games when I saw them, so in the end, before I bought my Gamecube, I had like 30 games. My favourite game after so many years is still this one: SUPER CASTLEVANIA IV. I bought the original catridge with a ripped-off cover, so I couldn’t sell it after all those years. It flies around in my room, but I don’t have a SNES anymore. So I downloaded a ROM (you CAN play Roms on an emulator, if you got the original game) and started playing again, and I still do sometimes.
Super Castlevania IV returns with Dracula as the main antagonist. You are Simon Belmont, member of a family that leads a confrontation with Dracula every hundred years, when he revives himself and spreads his destructive power. Armed with a whip, “and your courage”, you are sent out to Transylvania to stop Dracula. On your way, you will meet up terrific creatures which have met with Draculas power.
Whenever I play the game, I get back to my childhood. The retro graphics and the soundeffects always get me. Stillt, for the standards that were at the release of the game, this one is pretty detailed. The whole game constists of specific levels, each cut into semilevels, and at the last one a big boss-enemy awaits you. Starting with a skeleton knight on his horse, you will later meet up with a big golem, or even at the end with the reaper. Each level is somehow specified on the environment – at half of the game you will even enter Draculas castle, a gigantic bulding with at least 5 levels. Beside your whip (which can be enhanced to a chain whip), you will be able to collect various secondary weapons, like knives, boomerangs or flame potions (like molotov-cocktails), and also you will collect little heart-like objects as counters for the secondary weapon. You get points for every action, so try to make a big score.
What I really like at this game is that after you finished it, you start again, but now the difficulty is raised. In the same levels monsters appear to need more hits for a kill, or there are even more monsters. That is what makes this game interesting even when you played through.
I recommend to play this game. Go, buy a SNES, buy this freakin’ game and start over. Why are you still sitting here, GET IT! Ò__ó
First up me (Hace) got a new avatar! Because I don’t want to have the Tee anymore.
Now the game review:
Sometimes when I sit at home alone for a few hours… I getting bored even with internet. Then I think of things in the early or farther away past which make the boredom an end. I remembered a Beat’em Up game which I played together with my brother when we were young and the playstation 2/3 wasn’t released. So I looked in my whole bunch of games until I found a N64 version of this game. Yeah I know that the controll sucks a*s but… yeah I was too lazy searching for the Playstation 1 Version.
Yeah Fighting Force is a usual Beat’em-Up. You choose one from four characters called: Hawk, Smasher, Mace and Alana. Story? F*ck the story! This is a Beat’em Up! The only thing you have to know is: Me good guy.. They bad guys. But the story is about a rich very bad guy in a long manteau who do bad things.
The Gameplay is easy. B is for Kick a*sses, A is for punch the s*it out of guys. L is for running. And the you have some sort of special attackl. If you press L+A then your character use his special attack. It’s the best attack in game but everytime you use it it drains your life. The funny thing in Fighting Force is that you can find weapons in your environment. If you see a steel pipe somewhere you can use the A button to take it and beat the crap out of guys. You can also use a bottle, guns or knifes. The game is partet in stages you have to clear to get further. But you can decide on your own where you want to go. After every boss you can choose between two stages you can go. But before you can decide between two options you have to reach a special score. You can earn scores with beat up the most guys or destroy the environment. But the most easiest is to beat guys and collect the gold bars, money or diamonds they left behind.
Of course life as an fighting machine isn’t easy and sometimes you take some damage. To heal yourself you have to pick u p some food. You can beat guys so they drop some food, which in my eyes look like sandwiches and amm awkward hot-dogs. You also can destroy a coke vending machine so the coke comes out or destroy a hot-dog stall so the hot-dogs flew out. Somethings in this game are quiet bad. At first the game is very hard for one player. You only have two lives and alone there were used up very fast. Then the bosses. Sure they are beatable but it’s quiet hard. You have to run away… kick him away and this loop is to do until the boss is dead. And the last and badest thing is that you don’t get any varity. You only beat guys in every imaginable part of a city like: park, subway, parking lot… a military base… something like that. You don’t get any more moves. You only have the basic moves the whole game! But I did not exactly know that because of the hard gameplay i wasn’t able to beat the game. Maybe in the next time because I WANT to beat it now!
Yeah all in one my opinion of the game is now since I’m an adult amm yeah… The game ist just f*cking amazing! In 2-Player mode this game is funny as hell. But only for a few hours of gaming then you have to wait until your head says: “I want to beat bad guys” again.
I would say… 3/5 Stars.
Facts:
- In Japan the game is called Metal fist.
- Althougt the low presentation of violence, the game got an FSK 18.
- Fighting Force got an sequel called: Fighting Force 2 which is released on: PS1 and Sega Dreamcast.
- The game was published by Eidos Interactive
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is saying more than a thousand words. Due to the actual Killergame debate going on, I have found a picture I personally find very amusing.
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There’s a very lovely prank for little kids today: “When I was as old as you, there were only 150 Pokémon!”
The big Launchparty for the new released Pokémon “Platinum”-Version was at May 22nd, and my friend invited me to join. The whole party was pretty interesting for newbies and hardcore-nerds (like “What’s the highest possible special-attack-value of a Gengar at LV.50?”), but for me, there was this problem: I haven’t seen my DS and the inserted Diamond Version since last year. It’s gone, and I don’t even know where.
Well, the entry was half an hour later than expected, so we waited outside. At the entrance there were three entertainers costumed as the three start pokémon from which you can choose one at the beginning of the game. You could also download a special promo-pokémon you cannot get in the game, as long as you’re on the launchparty. The party was filled with dozens of DS-consoles to try out the new Platinum-Version, also there was an entertainment stage, and lots of merchandise, like posters and stickers. Celebrities like “Marco”, a human Pokémon-encyclopedia, and the german singer “Oli P.” where on the stafe and entertained the people, as the background was filled with the english songs from the anime. In the afternoon there was a cosplay-competition, since the biggest anime-fans came as figures from the anime and even as pokémon. At the near end of the party was a lottery where you could win a brandnew Nintendo DSi, the improved handheld of Nintendo.
A joke was the fact that my friend couldn’t stand it and bought Platinum before he even met with me. So, during the whole party he mostly played it, till his DS went off. xD
Also it was a joke when my friend asked Marco a question he couldn’t answer. My friend knew the answer, and it was fun to see him knowing more than Marco.
In the end, the party was still a bit boring for me. Not because of the fact that i was probably the only one without a DS and a pokémon game, but because it was just too much. It was a whole bunch of weeabos and hardcore-Pokémon-Nerds who don’t fight like normal players anymore.
I think I’m gonna take me and my cam along with my best pal to the Pokémon-Championship in Berlin. If I’ll do so, I’ll also write about it here.
