Posted on: September 3, 2023
DystopianDreamer
Verified ownerGames: 681 Reviews: 22
I wanted to like this game, but...
I grew up playing games on my Nintendo. I knew of 8 Eyes from back in the day because I saw it in Nintendo Power, but I never had a chance to play it. But it stuck in my mind because of how similar it looked to Castlevania 2, which I loved. I noticed this last week that it's on GOG, so I picked it up to try, and it's a disappointment. First, you don't get the game manual with GOG, I had to search for a scanned copy online. Managed to find it, which was good because it has key details of how to play the game in it that you'd miss if you just started to play the game without reading it. And through reading the manual I find out this game isn't as open world as I had thought, as you need to go through the worlds in a particular order as each boss is only vulnerable to one sword, and each boss you defeat will give you one new sword. And right after this I read the section on 'Lives' and alarm bells start ringing in my head. It says 'This is a one-life game. If you lose the life, the game is over. No free men are awarded. This is reality!' No my dude, this is a video game. I start playing and your guy moves like a slug and has a shorter range with his sword than just about every enemy. The combat isn't fun, you're basically trading hits with enemies and feels deliberately punishing. Like it goes beyond Nintendo Hard to blatantly unfair. I don't know if it's a problem with the port, or if this game always played this badly, but I had to give up on it. It just wasn't worth it, even though I like the concept they were going for, it's just lousy execution. Unless you know exactly what you're getting into here, like you played it back in the day and you really want that nostalgia hit, than I'd let this game stay back in the 80s. It did not age well, and I suspect it wasn't enjoyable even back in the day.
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