20th April 2010, 12:20 PM
First -- Yeah, fix that spelling error, "Whily" is a pretty obvious and big mistake.
Second, Front Mission: Gun Hazard was actually released in February 1996, not in 1993.
Of the Genesis Shinobi games, I like Shadow Dancer far more than Revenge of Shinobi or Shinobi III. The latter two are perhaps more popular, but I just like Shadow Dancer's gameplay a whole lot better. Revenge of Shinobi and Shinobi III somehow just don't hold my interest, I get bored and quit a couple of levels in with both games... with Shadow Dancer though, while I've never beaten it (it's quite challenging), I have gotten to the last level and have played the game a lot. It's strategic, memorization-heavy, and incredibly fun... it's one of my favorite Genesis sidescrollers, no question.
Also, as I said, Landstalker is definitely one of the best Zelda clones ever. I got it last year not having spent much time with it before, but I was really, really impressed... it's a huge, deep, complex and yet simple, and extremely well made game. Interesting characters, good graphics and sound, a pretty well done story, great gameplay, good controls (isometric movement can be tricky, but it works here), great level designs, some good writing... there's really not much of anything bad I can s ay about it, except that it's too bad that none of the sequels play like it.
Oh, in your list of its "sequels" you forgot one, TimeStalkers for the Dreamcast. But as I said none play like LandStalker. LadyStalker is an RPG with random battles. Dark Savior is the most like Landstalker and has very similar isometric platform jumping, but has fighting game ish combat fights that take a while but are spread out, instead of the Zeldaish combat of Landstalker. It's also got multiple routes through the game, etc. TimeStalkers is a dungeon crawling RPG with a pretty simple and fun for the genre grid based battle system (it's not a separate battle mode, you fight in the dungeon), and also is sort of a "reunion" game or something like that, because the main characters of LandStalker and LadyStalker, one of the characters from Shining in the Darkness (their first game), and more are all playable. :)
Second, Front Mission: Gun Hazard was actually released in February 1996, not in 1993.
Of the Genesis Shinobi games, I like Shadow Dancer far more than Revenge of Shinobi or Shinobi III. The latter two are perhaps more popular, but I just like Shadow Dancer's gameplay a whole lot better. Revenge of Shinobi and Shinobi III somehow just don't hold my interest, I get bored and quit a couple of levels in with both games... with Shadow Dancer though, while I've never beaten it (it's quite challenging), I have gotten to the last level and have played the game a lot. It's strategic, memorization-heavy, and incredibly fun... it's one of my favorite Genesis sidescrollers, no question.
Also, as I said, Landstalker is definitely one of the best Zelda clones ever. I got it last year not having spent much time with it before, but I was really, really impressed... it's a huge, deep, complex and yet simple, and extremely well made game. Interesting characters, good graphics and sound, a pretty well done story, great gameplay, good controls (isometric movement can be tricky, but it works here), great level designs, some good writing... there's really not much of anything bad I can s ay about it, except that it's too bad that none of the sequels play like it.
Oh, in your list of its "sequels" you forgot one, TimeStalkers for the Dreamcast. But as I said none play like LandStalker. LadyStalker is an RPG with random battles. Dark Savior is the most like Landstalker and has very similar isometric platform jumping, but has fighting game ish combat fights that take a while but are spread out, instead of the Zeldaish combat of Landstalker. It's also got multiple routes through the game, etc. TimeStalkers is a dungeon crawling RPG with a pretty simple and fun for the genre grid based battle system (it's not a separate battle mode, you fight in the dungeon), and also is sort of a "reunion" game or something like that, because the main characters of LandStalker and LadyStalker, one of the characters from Shining in the Darkness (their first game), and more are all playable. :)
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