10th November 2010, 9:37 PM
Game Boy
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Zen: Intergalactic Ninja - Licensed game based on a TV series I don't ever remember watching. I do remember this game though, my cousins had it in the mid '90s. It's not a difficult game, as you'd probably expect from a licensed Game Boy game, but fun. It's a Konami game, almost certainly running on the GB TMNT engine, also used in the first two Game Boy TMNT sidescrollers. Like those games this is a slow-paced side scrolling platformer/beat em up, and it's fun if very short and not too hard. I got this a few months ago, but stopped at the level 4 boss and only returned to it today; I figured out the 4th boss' pattern, and got past him and then beat level 5, the last level, too.
Gameplay wise (that is, aside from the length and low to moderate difficulty), the main negative is that, just like with those two TMNT games, the game is very slow paced. Zen walks really slowly. I know they did this to keep the game's levels longer and flowing right (because of the quite large sprites), if you could go faster this game would be quite short... but still, having to watch your character crawl along, and with no speed-up function too, can be annoying. Still a decent game, though. I'd like to try the NES Zen game too, if I remember right it's isometric.
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Zen: Intergalactic Ninja - Licensed game based on a TV series I don't ever remember watching. I do remember this game though, my cousins had it in the mid '90s. It's not a difficult game, as you'd probably expect from a licensed Game Boy game, but fun. It's a Konami game, almost certainly running on the GB TMNT engine, also used in the first two Game Boy TMNT sidescrollers. Like those games this is a slow-paced side scrolling platformer/beat em up, and it's fun if very short and not too hard. I got this a few months ago, but stopped at the level 4 boss and only returned to it today; I figured out the 4th boss' pattern, and got past him and then beat level 5, the last level, too.
Gameplay wise (that is, aside from the length and low to moderate difficulty), the main negative is that, just like with those two TMNT games, the game is very slow paced. Zen walks really slowly. I know they did this to keep the game's levels longer and flowing right (because of the quite large sprites), if you could go faster this game would be quite short... but still, having to watch your character crawl along, and with no speed-up function too, can be annoying. Still a decent game, though. I'd like to try the NES Zen game too, if I remember right it's isometric.