Risky Woods

The game looks and controls really nice (and the amiga version sounds nice as well). Now to the negatives: The game's not only hard, it's horribly unfair, unbalanced and unrewarding. It's basically a mix between a super-pretty amiga collect-a-thon and conemtporary arcade sidescrollig action game. It captures some of their best aspects (ie the graphics), and some of the worst: more power-downs than power-ups, useless weapon upgrades, a non-sop barrage of enemies unexpected instant death-traps, artificially extended gameplay, where only the graphics change, but everything else stays the same, a lame ending etc. I think the only reason to buy this is for nostalgia's sake, but be prepared for your rose tinted glasses to shatter really fast. I dug this one up about six years ago because I recalled kind of liking it, yet never getting too far. This time I managed to be much better at it, but having way less patience for this kind of bullcrap. It's way more playable than Deatbringer for example, but it's only marginally more enjoyable.

I played this game long ago on the Sega Megadrive, and I was blown away by the graphics and music. It such a great game that I finished it twice! Some might find it a bit difficult at first, but once you get used to the gameplay, you start to enjoy the game even more. I highly reccomend this game to anyone who enjoys tue kinds of games. A timeless classic!

A pretty well made platformer, especially considering how bad these games used to be on PC in the early 90s. Great graphics, good music and good gameplay. It has two related flaws: it's too short on one hand and too easy on the other. I've always found it strange that this game is considered difficult, it's true that the action is very fast, but enemies all have very similar behavior patterns, and once you've learned to use items (not all of them are good or useful in all situations), and to choose the weapons, it's quite easy.

This is a shame to pay for a game and being finally forced to play it in emulation because a bug prevent you to progress, i tried everything on the keyboard and nothing works to unlock doors in this version. Otherwise the game looks cool and fortunately the megadrive version is faithful to this one.