Posted on: January 20, 2024
ekj7
游戏: 1115 评论: 4
Everything kills you
I have to admit, I don't have much nostalgia for these games. When they came out, I was already spoiled by the much better console platformers, so I played them for a few minutes at a friend's and then moved on to other games. The first few episodes are almost unplayable. Really poor level design with treats just seemingly thrown everywhere, like someone just randomly clicked all over the place in a level editor. The later games are much better with clearly more thought put into the layout and your character having additional abilities like grabbing onto platform edges to pull himself up. The large, animated enemies look great too. The problem I find with even these later episodes (and many of these early DOS platformers) is how unforgiving they can be. Touch anything and you die, even if you came crashing down on its head with a pogo stick. To make matters worse, the collision detection is spotty and, of course, not in your favour. Die and you have to start from the beginning of the level again. I find using DOSBox-X or DOSBox Pure with the snapshot or rewind feature really helps reduce the frustration in these cases and makes the game a lot more enjoyable.
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