Posted on: December 10, 2017
Malek86
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Supposedly aimed at children, but...
Another one of Apogee's platformers, among the lesser known ones. There was no smooth scrolling yet, so you get tile scrolling like in Duke Nukem 1, although the graphics here look more detailed and there's actual music (sound effects are still limited to PC Speaker though, which sounds okay in Dosbox but gets annoying very soon on real hardware). Unfortunately, with more detailed graphics, the lack of smooth scrolling becomes much more noticeable than in Duke Nukem 1. Between the cutesy story and colorful backgrounds, it sounds like the game was aimed at children, but by god, is this thing brutal. The excessive zoom doesn't help at all, but some later levels would still be ridiculous even in other games. The first episode, which is probably the one most people played as it was shareware, is easy enough. But from the second episode, the difficulty ramps up a lot, with enemies just outside of your view range thatwill inevitably hit you during a jump. It gets to the point where it feels harder than Monster Bash. And your health doesn't even refill at the start of a level. Kids might have enjoyed this in its day, but I wonder how many people actually finished it. There are far better platformers out there.
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