Yes. I just realized I had missed a game. So I guess we will start the review off with that one game. So let’s do it.
This is the game I missed. It’s a sports game compliation. Woo. You can see why I forgot about this game. I don’t like most sports games and I don’t like most of these compliation games either. Most of them are just too hard for me to get anywhere in. I guess this game has fine graphics and sound for the time and I can see why others enjoy it but I don’t. I’m putting it in the bad category because I just don’;t like it. That’s the review you were sorely missing.
I don’t know what to say about most of the Classic NES games that haven’t been already said. I did this mostly to talk about the more unknown games. The stuff people never seem to discuss, however I felt I might as well talk about all the NES games and that includes the big name stuff that still does well today and Castlevania is fucking awesome. That’s all I can say is to agree with the majority and is a lot of fun to play. The graphics and music still hold up incredibly well. The gameplay has you whipping the shit out of Dracula and the Frankenstein Monster. The game is pretty fucking hard too but it’s more of that “well thought out challenging” hard and not ‘we just didn’t know what the fuck we were doing” hard. I’m pretty sure I don’t have to say anything else other than if you haven’t played this game you should.
This paragraph review will show maybe my hottest hot take when it comes to video games. CastleVania II is the only ‘Metroidvania” game that I like. I have never played Symphony of the Night and I’m not jazzed about ever doing so. I played some of those Castlevania GBA games and I wasn’t wowed by them. If I want to go search around and find things to get to new areas I will play Metroid. When I play Castlevania I want to slap around crazy monsters with a whip. That’s what I want. I much perfer the older Castlevania games that were mostly platformers with some elements of that in it. Keep Metroid and Castlevania apart is what I say. Still I actually like this game and think the only real problem is some of the “How the fuck was I know that I had to do that? You stupid jerk game” but otherwise I enjoy this game. I know all of this was a hot take but I don’t care. Agree with it or don’t.
This is the best Castlevania game on the NES, maybe the best Castlevania game period. It’s a massive improvement on the other two games. You get alternative paths and can one of several helpers to help you beat the game. The graphics, music and challenge factor have all been upped. I’ve beaten the first two Castlevania games but I have NOT beaten this one. It is a tough ass motherfucker of a game. I WILL hopefully do it once sometime soon but man, this is some hard shit. The game is totally worth playing and is highly recommended by me.
Another one of those “sports game compliation” type games that were all over the NES. I believe there’s ONE that I will be giving a good rating too. The rest I am just not a fan of. I don’t know what it is but these games want me to somehow input the craziest button combos EVER and also then do those crazy button combos incredibly quickly to get anywhere. I just don’t find that fun and despite the goofy comedy of this game (which does actually amuse me) I don’t find this game much fun. I do end up playing this one a fair amount hoping against everything that this time I finally get good at it and actually enjoy playing it but it never works out. Sad.
Oh goodie, it’s another Color Dreams game. Actually I should be saying it’s another Sachen game. Sachen I think was a Taiwaniese company that the Red Eye really tried to make a thing. I never saw a game under their actual name ever show up anywhere except for the ones Color Dreams bought and brought over. It’s a good thing too because the games they made were utter hogshit. This game is an annoying shitty pile of garbage that plays and controls poorly. Like “we made this garbage in one day” poorly. The controls are hideous and it just is annoying to play. Play control is probably the most important thing a game should have because you can look and sound good (not that this game does look or sound good) but if the game is annoying to control it’s all for naught. Anyway don’t play this game. It’s poop. it’s PORTNOYD poop.
Good games: 57
Bad Games: 48
Okay games: 14
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