5th December 2003, 4:34 PM
Yeah, the original didn't have super intelligent buddies either, and if I remember correctly they couldn't even take damage. But, it didn't matter because once the hero died, game over regardless of the status of the ally.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)