Realms of Chaos

.... is shite. It's plain and simple and the first thing I wanted to get off my chest. The music is absolutely unbearably shite. The first thing that comes to mind, looking at the screenshots and realizing it's a sword and sorcery game, are definitely not some generic tunes that sound like they belong in a childrens jump 'n run game. At it's best, the music sounds like a bad version of the bowsers castle theme in the original Mario bros. games. That said, the rest of the game is pretty great. Realms of Chaos is a fairly straightforward action platformer, set in a fantasy world, every 80s and 90s child could dream of. You fight awesome enemies, like catpeople (Putting out fire with gasoline) with maces and swords, wolves, lizards, skeletons, golems and, and of course, annoying bats, with your sword and magic, which you can upgrade by collecting enough loot. The levels are, like I said, pretty straight forward, so seldom is there any backtracking that needs to be done. But that doesn't mean that it's a walk in the park. The game can be pretty unforgiving at times, especially in the later levels and in the bossfights, which you have to try over and over again, until you eventually find its weakness or learn the pattern. But defeating a boss, after dying 20+ times and closing the game in frustration, feels pretty rewarding. So if you want an action game that screams cheesy 80s fantasy, you are willing to fail a few times, and you turn the godawful music off and listen to your own powermetal playlist, this game is worth every second and every failed attempt.

If you like platforming games in general or just old games in particular then you'll love Realms of Chaos. One of the first games to let you switch characters on the fly.

It doesn't stand out as much as similar platformers from the Shareware era, but it a solid game. The two-character swapping option is novel, and it offers a decent challenge, but I can't recommend spending more than three bucks for it.

Realms of Chaos is one of the most basic games of it's genres. Released two years after masterpieces like Shinobi III or Mega Man X, it feels like a throwback to late 80ies arcade titles in comparison. It's just so overly simplistic, sure switching characters is a nice touch (though the girl is just an overall better character, with her projectiles having 3 hitboxes thus able to keep monsters much better at bay if you decide not skip them entirely) and some of the graphics are indeed nice (while others can be best described as bland - especially the final catacombs). But the worlds seem static, even drab at times. Enemies have the most generic attack patterns and are not particularly pretty to look at. Levels are for the most part a very linear affair without exciting setpieces or clever/interesting leveldesign. Bossbattles, despite the impressive size of the monsters, are lame excercises in button mashing. Realms of Chaos boils down to a rather unsatisfying if not boring experience, especially if you are familiar with the genre.

I loved hard game since my childhood, lots frustration for great pleasure later. Hours of Ninja Giden and Contra are part of my live, i feel happy when game what can give me this same feelings what game mentioned before. But that is not one from that games! Diffuculty is hard, very hard being more precision, but that difficulty come from bad desing boss fights. No things expected, all what they have are box of suprises, nasty ones. What is oposide of rest of the game, is slow by relax meaning but still clunky, compare to others platformers on market. There is nothing what different it from others mediocer games. You can skip it, and if you looks for good bossfights skip it even more.