22nd July 2012, 8:32 PM
PC - DD Steam Sale (last day(s)!)
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Satazius - $3 - indie shmup
Jamestown DLC - $1.80 - three more ships
Wizorb - $1.20 - indie breakout game with rpg features or something
SNES
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Inspector Gadget - $6.50, cart in box (no manual) - Decently fun platformer from Hudson. It's not incredible, but it is fun. Okay graphics, and I like how Gadget has a bunch of, well, gadgets to use. The main negatives are that there's no saving (come on, include passwords at least, it seems to have infinite continues) and that the story is really stupid -- it's a super-generic "rescue the girl" plot about Penny getting kidnapped and Gadget rescuing her. I remember reading about that back when this game came out ('93) and thinking that that was really stupid, because that story isn't good, but also more importantly because that entirely goes against the nature of the series. I mean, in Inspector Gadget, Gadget's a borderline-incompetent fool. When he succeeds, it's by accident. He always thinks Brain in thin disguises is a MAD agent, but always thinks the MAD agents are goodguys. He never realizes that Penny and Brain are always helping him (and that he'd rarely have succeeded without them). Etc. But in this game... nope, just another rescue the girl plot. :(
The GBC Inspector Gadget game is better, conceptually -- you can play as all three characters and switch between them at will, so it's got a bit of a Lost Vikings feel to it. I don't know if it's quite as good gameplay-wise as this one, though... Hudson did do a good job with the gameplay at least. It is a decent game though.
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Satazius - $3 - indie shmup
Jamestown DLC - $1.80 - three more ships
Wizorb - $1.20 - indie breakout game with rpg features or something
SNES
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Inspector Gadget - $6.50, cart in box (no manual) - Decently fun platformer from Hudson. It's not incredible, but it is fun. Okay graphics, and I like how Gadget has a bunch of, well, gadgets to use. The main negatives are that there's no saving (come on, include passwords at least, it seems to have infinite continues) and that the story is really stupid -- it's a super-generic "rescue the girl" plot about Penny getting kidnapped and Gadget rescuing her. I remember reading about that back when this game came out ('93) and thinking that that was really stupid, because that story isn't good, but also more importantly because that entirely goes against the nature of the series. I mean, in Inspector Gadget, Gadget's a borderline-incompetent fool. When he succeeds, it's by accident. He always thinks Brain in thin disguises is a MAD agent, but always thinks the MAD agents are goodguys. He never realizes that Penny and Brain are always helping him (and that he'd rarely have succeeded without them). Etc. But in this game... nope, just another rescue the girl plot. :(
The GBC Inspector Gadget game is better, conceptually -- you can play as all three characters and switch between them at will, so it's got a bit of a Lost Vikings feel to it. I don't know if it's quite as good gameplay-wise as this one, though... Hudson did do a good job with the gameplay at least. It is a decent game though.