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
Filed under: Retro
It was one those days at school when every teacher were ill. You have some Free hours and no idea what to do with you time. So I decided to start my SNES Emulator. After a few minutes of gaming games like: Yoshi’s Island and Super Mario Allstars, I remembered one special game I loved when I was a child. I don’t exactly now how much hours, days and weeks I spend with thinking of game’s name. The only things I knew were that it was a Orange cat which can run very fast and that it is a JumpN’Run.
Today I also think of the games name. Then I visited a Website were every SNES game is listed on. I choosed some Letters with “C” for cat.. and something like that. After minutes of reading game names I choosed the letter “B”… and there it was… The game I loved so many years… which I played togehter with my brother. It’s Bubsy!
Acctually it’s called: “Bubsy – Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind“
Story: (copied from: Wikipedia)
“The plot focuses on a race of fabric-stealing aliens called “Woolies”, who have stolen the world’s yarn ball supply (especially Bubsy’s, who owns the world’s largest collection). Naturally, Bubsy does not take too kindly to the theft and sets out to “humble” the Woolies.”
I compare Bubsy with Soni with some differences in the Gamedesign. Bubsy also have to collect items like the rings in Sonic. In Bubsy this is Yarn. You have this jump platforms in Sonic. In Bubsy this are Sewer which blews up it’s lid. In one thing I’m sure: Sonic is much faster than Bubsy. Bubsy is also fast but not THAT fast.
You jump, run and glide through the whole level and try to don’t TOUCH the enemys. Because if you do, you die with a funny animation. You don’t have to be afraid of running out of lifes. In Bubsy you find very much extra lifes, sometimes two at once. You can easy kill the enemys with jumping on their heads. In one level there are much Save Points from which you can start if you die. But you have to touch them, so if you forget you have to get back and touch it.
Bubsy has many skills to get those Woolies. He can jump…run… and glide. Yes, Bubsy has three abilities. The funny thing is ju can jump on: A,B, X and Y. With X and Y you can glide if you press them again. From A to Y the power of Bubsy’s jumps reduces. So: A is the strongest and Y the weakest jump.
Bubsy has no 2-Player options so that you have to switch the controller some times if you wanna play with a friend or your brother/sister.
In the end:
In my opinion this game is just amazing. It makes a lot of fun so that you wanna play it again, and again, and again and again.
Infos:
- Bubsy was released on: SNES, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Atari Jaguar, PC and Playstation.
- Bubsy had a pilot episode for an animated series in 1993.
- The Voice of Bubsy is Rob Paulson (MGS: TTS: Gray Fox or Pinky from “Pinky and the Brain”)
- The Playstation Version of Bubsy which is called: “Bubsy 3D” was the 8th Place of the worst games of all time.
Filed under: Retro
There Is one genre in this god damn world I cant actually play. Survival Horror. I clearly remember the day when I was like 11 years old, playing playstation with a friend. I suddenly inserted Resident Evil 1, as I thought it would be a cool zombie shooter.
After going through the dining-room, opening the door and seeing the first zombie, I never hit the “off” Button of a console that fast. I was scared. Im fascinated by the fear those games create, but I cant play one of those games for more than 10 minutes, even in the middle of a shining day. Im that much of a pussy.
Either way, yesterday I accidentally read about Clock-Tower for the SNES on Wikipedia. The story made me curious, so I went through dark-paths on the interwebs to look for this game.
You remember my 10 minute rule?
I closed my emulator after 10 minutes. It were exactly 10 minutes of playing.
Gameplay is easily explained. Move the Cursor around with your D-Pad, and interact with the enviroment via ABXY-Buttons.
So, instead of focusing on the gameplay,I’m going to focus on the enviroment. That is the main factor of making a game scary, right? There is no music most of the time, until you meet anything trying to harm you. The game itself is very dark, and the sound youll hear most is the sound of your footsteps.
Normally, when playing a Survival Horror, you expect 2 basic game elements. Trying to survive and feeling the horror. Any Survival Horror game I played gave me a Weapon to defend myself. I was able to defeat most of the evil creatures by shooting them, stabbing in their heart, basic stuff like that. But in Clock-Tower, you are defenseless. Thats right, the game gives you no possibility to fight. The main character is a defenseless 14 year old school girl. Youre constantly running away, trying to hide from the stalker, a nine year old boy with an oversized pair of scissors. He will attack you if youre in a room for too long ( havent stopped time for that yet ), if you enter a room youre not supposed to enter, if you enter a room youre supposed to enter, if you go through a hallway, if you climb up some stairs. You never have the chance to rest.
The most exciting fact about this game is : its an SNES game. You dont need kick-ass graphics of special light rendering algorithms to strike fear in a heart. The knowledge of being defenseless, the quiet atmosphere, your own footsteps, everything makes this game thrilling. And best of all : its non linear, you have the chance of doing what you want to do. And it has about 6-7 endings, which makes this game replayable. I’ll try to beat it. Honestly, I will _try_ .
