26th February 2003, 6:44 PM
I'm not sure if X7 is fully 3D or just 2 1/2 D like Yoshi's Story.
Anyway, original 3 levels? The original had 4 levels. The NES version had one removed (the other three had minor alterations as well). Adding new moves wasn't all. The whole design of all the extra levels was very different. Although there was a slight puzzle attribute one could say was in the first 4 levels, they just emphasized surviving. The new levels (all 96 of them) not only were much larger than a single screen, they required you to do a lot of things before you could use the exit. The whole idea was of a puzzle game nature. It could be compaired to Lost Vikings, in that it's an action puzzle, though the comparison stops there. You had to think about how enemies acted to get some key or jump just right to hit a switch BEFORE something happens or whatnot. And this was just in the 5 or so levels I played on a friend's copy. While super expansion is an accurate word I'd use, I use it knowing that calling it that is kinda inaccurate since the first four levels are almost there purely for legacy's sake. Donkey Kong for gameboy was most assuredly it's own seperate and unique game.
Anyway, original 3 levels? The original had 4 levels. The NES version had one removed (the other three had minor alterations as well). Adding new moves wasn't all. The whole design of all the extra levels was very different. Although there was a slight puzzle attribute one could say was in the first 4 levels, they just emphasized surviving. The new levels (all 96 of them) not only were much larger than a single screen, they required you to do a lot of things before you could use the exit. The whole idea was of a puzzle game nature. It could be compaired to Lost Vikings, in that it's an action puzzle, though the comparison stops there. You had to think about how enemies acted to get some key or jump just right to hit a switch BEFORE something happens or whatnot. And this was just in the 5 or so levels I played on a friend's copy. While super expansion is an accurate word I'd use, I use it knowing that calling it that is kinda inaccurate since the first four levels are almost there purely for legacy's sake. Donkey Kong for gameboy was most assuredly it's own seperate and unique game.
"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)