I don’t know, I got a bug up my ass and I kinda want to at least finish the As before the end of this month. So that will probably mean two posts about NES games in a row. Anyway, here’s more As. Plus what could be a HOT TAKE. I don’t know.
Rare was one of the best publishers of the NES and SNES era. I don’t give a shit what portnoyd things because Battletoads was too hard for THE BIG BABY so he took it out on everything Rare like a BABY. Despite that I uh never really liked this game. I don’t know if thats a HOT TAKE but I’m considering it a HOT TAKE because I know people who love this game and give me grief for being like “It’s shitty pictionary with good music” which is what this game is. I don’t even like the actual board game pictionary for crying out loud. Well I’ve never actually played it but it would be like the last board game I would go for. You guess drawings and I don’t get it. I seriously don’t get it. This is literally boring as hell to me. Also I don’t know how Pat the NES Punk got popular when this was one of the games he chose to review. And spent 21 minutes doing it. I know one thing portnoyd and I will agree on is that if we were made to review a NES game on youtube we’d pick just about anything else than Anticipation, which is something I can’t talk about for 5 seconds let alone 21 minutes. A bad game that I don’t like.
I know you are probably expecting me to go YEAH ANOTHER POOPY SPORTS game because this was put out by ACCLAIM but well two things. I actually really really enjoy this game and think it’s probably the only basketball game on the NES I enjoy. And it was actually developed by rare. Maybe not assume things by the companies name you AVGN weirdo. Remember when people would parrot his points like he was an actual reviewer and not a goofy joke man on YouTube? That was a very annoying time. I like this game because I think it’s fun. I can punch dudes in the face AND actually score goals against the other team. Every other basketball game I play I end up being beaten by the computer because I have to jump in the right place to make the basket or shit like that. This game just cuts to the chase. The computers aren’t pushovers either but you can actually easily score baskets. Something I’ve never been able to do in any other basketball game on the NES.
You see this cover and you think, Holy shit this has to be bad ass. You don’t know what kind of game it is. It could be an a RPG (turn based or action) it could be a plat former. It could even be a strategy game. The last thing you think it would be is a chess game. I am not an old man sitting in Central Park in New York City so I don’t even know how to play chess. It’s also something that I feel even if I knew how to play I’d rather play with another actual person. Seems more fun that way. Still I gave this game another shot because the last time I played it was probably in 2006. It’s okay a bit different than chess but it’s still not a lot of fun. You play as either the light or dark side and then you fight each other in a little arena and the other monster or character always seems to end up having more fire power. I don’t know. I don’t like this game. I won’t be playing it again.
Arkanoid is a classic game where you have to bounce a ball around and smash it into blocks to make them disappear. Some blocks wont disappear and you gotta get the block into some weird areas and places. I like this game a decent amount but I am pretty terrible at it. I saw someone beat it on stream and it was awe-inspiring, even if they used the continue code built into the game. Anyway it has some great music, graphics, and creativity. It’s also hard as fucking hell. There’s really not much else to say about this game really. It’s just a good home port of an Arcade game but it’s gonna pull your dick around like a lunatic, it’s that hard.
We end this batch off with another game from our favorite American….Sammy! I apologize for that attempt at a joke there but still this is actually a pretty darn good little game. You play as an Elf girl and she’s going to find a magic wand or some shit in her fantasy elf world. You play in over one hundred top down levels. The problem is they pretty much repeat after like Level 25 or maybe 35? I don’t know. I just know that I’d rather just play a pretty good game that was 25 unique levels then have to play 125 or so to beat the game and get the real ending. I dunno, still I’d give Arkista’s Ring a look, it IS fun to play and I do like it quite a bit, it’s just you could have had the levels repeat like twice and 75 levels would have been plenty. It’s a bit much I guess is what I’m saying. Anyway a pretty good game to end this part off on. I always like it when the games are good to leave you with a warm feeling. I don’t know what I’m talking about anymore so I’m going to quit typing.
Anyway the ratings of Good, Bad and Okay in my mind are thus:
Good: 21
Bad: 11
Okay: 3 (I’m being nice to Anticpation because it’s box art is so hilariously shitty)
Next Time: We finish the As! Yay!
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