What a poor game. The pre-PS1-era visuals don’t exactly help, but the collision detection, pop-up, clipping, low quality textures and awful camera basically kill it. That, and the fact it was almost half an hour between save points – not good for a handheld game really, is it? I set about the first level – well, the first bit before the first level and the first level itself. I knew Rayman DS was just a port, but I didn’t realise …
Ah yes, a trio of awful, shameless ripoffs on a handheld with a design like the PSP, but with the power of a VMU. Excellent. I am of course, talking about my new Gameking II. It’s like a Gameking, only shaped differently and has a screen light. Not that the screen light is a lot of good, as although it illuminates the screen pretty well, there is now a “backdrop” to the screen – a picture of some mountains – …
Yes! Already! I only got it yesterday, but it is already over and done. It seems World 7 didn’t have a boss at the end, and World 8 wasn’t really a level, just a quick run through a couple of easy things and then the boss – Drawica. Once his (or her, probably – it is a witch after all) patterns became clear, she was pretty easy. And then, as was pretty likely going from most games these days, there …
Really plowed through this today, and I’m now up to World 7 (out of, it seems, 8). In fact, I only stopped playing due to the battery in my DS coming close to running out. Things are getting somewhat harder now, with lots going on at once to worry about – things flying at you, electrified walls, spinning spikes and all sorts all at once. Luckily, there are plenty of restart points, and lives are easy enough to pick up. …
It’s like Yoshi Touch & Go, but with actual proper levels! And Kirby! The levels I’ve done so far (the first two worlds) have been pretty good – varied, nice graphics, but very easy so far. I’m only “4.7%” complete though, it seems, so I’m sure things will get harder. The bosses are a bit different to your usual games too. You have three to pick at the end of each world (the same three each time), and you have …
Ludicrous name aside, this is actually a pretty good platformer. See – it is possible to make decent 2D platformers in this day and age. It’s a shame the tilt sensor is either “on” or “off”, however – there’s no analogueness to it. And my brain doesn’t work backwards well enough to work out I need to tilt left to move everything right, and vice versa. But anyway. Completed all of the first two “worlds”, which involved turning into a …
This game is too hard, and based too much on luck. Much like game-card-mate Cool 104 Joker then, really. I managed a whopping 164 points on this today, but it would have been much higher if it wasn’t for the fact I got a “blocker” tile, which I had to use to kill off three potential lines. I have unlocked another “theme” though, which doesn’t alter the game in any way but makes a change nonetheless.
Not a particularly successful play today on this. I did managed to complete the Pharoh level on my second attempt – once I’d figured you could smash the huge gold boulders, my coins racked up pretty quickly. Sadly, I had less luck in Frontiersville, although I did come pretty close. As for the Resident Evil Racoon City level – that’s just plain impossible. FACT. You have to get Nemesis to drop all of his coins, but you have to hit …
Oh ho – what hilarious punnage. Yes, anyway – I had a few goes today, managing to storm through the actual level (Chapter 12) I was stuck on and making it to the boss. Who was hard. Not hard as in, bloody difficult, but hard as in “I know what I need to do and it seems to hurt him but even though I keep doing it he doesn’t die and whoops I’ve run out of time Game Over”. Finally, …
Chapter 12… is a bit hard. Well, 12-1 to 12-4 are easy enough, but 12-5 is difficult. There are so many switches you have to keep active, things to shoot, things to bomb and it gets pretty cluttered leaving you without much room to actually draw things. I had one ghosty left, and ran out of time. On my second go, I ran out of Pac Men (mans?) due to so many of them getting jammed between explodey ghosties, which …
Chapter 11 completed now. Struggled a little on the last round, with it’s clutteredness – there was nowhere to actually draw stuff. Managed it in the end though. Now, Chapter 12… which seems to be the last level in “Book I”.
Chapter 10 defeaterat0rized! I just can’t do arrows in any direction other than up. My brain can’t rotate the shape you need to draw, so I have to rotate the DS instead – not ideal in the heat of the game. Anyway, this chapter is bombtastic, and you have to kill the boss at the end by use of the bombs too. And he is dead. And eaten.
Finished a few more levels. I think I’m getting the hang of it now. First up today was Booty Bay again, which I found pretty easy. One trick I’ve found is to try and “prank” the same group of people several times in quick sucession. Also, the sharks are an excellent weapon if you have a hoover – let them out, run and hide, and suck up the coins from a safe spot. After that was the Casino level, which …
I did wonder if I was nearing the end of the game when the “level select” markers seemed to fill the entire map. Some of the final few levels are bloody hard though, or at least would be, if I hadn’t have played Original Mode for a fair while and unlocked some useful power-ups. Level 19 was the hardest by far. It looks like a “normal” Invaders screen, but the invaders move up rather than down – trying to escape. …
And, magically, the 72-in-1 also has a Famicom cart slot (although you have to put the cartridges in upside down). So I played this for a while. Actually did pretty well, managing some 18 rounds before I was finally out of points. Normally I struggle to last 5 or 6. One hand of 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 Characters / 7-8-9 Bamboo / Pair of Green Dragons was most impressive, until I found I got only about 5,000 points for it, and not the …