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(review)The Jungle Book is a video game adaptation released in 1994 by Virgin Interactive and East Point software for the DOS and other video game ...
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(review)The Jungle Book is a video game adaptation released in 1994 by Virgin Interactive and East Point software for the DOS and other video game consoles of the time. Obviously you play as Mowgli through 12 different levels, called chapters, in typical side-scrolling fashion while climbing vines, jumping gaps and dealing with different enemies. In each level you must find a certain number of red gems, out of a total of 15, and find a character waiting somewhere in the level - most of the time you have to find a friendly character (either Bagheera or Baloo the bear) but in some levels you have to find Kaa the snake, King Louie, or Shere Khan, in which case you will also have a boss battle with them. There is a difficulty setting where you can choose between "practice" "normal" and "hard" modes. These affect how many gems you have to collect to advance to the next level, how many lives you start off with, how much time you get for completing a level (yes, every level is timed), how many hits you take before dying, and how many hits an enemy takes before dying. In practice mode you have to collect 5 gems and the enemies take one hit to kill, in normal mode it's 10 gems and 2 hits and in hard mode it's 12 gems and 3 hits. Collecting all 15 gems takes you to a bonus level in-between the main levels where you collect different fruit which add up to your score, but the score is pretty useless, because it doesn't add up to an extra life and the game doesn't save it in a "hall of fame" or something - no, you beat the game, look at the score for 10 seconds and then it's back to 0. I guess you could write down the score every time, and compete with your friends, but that's not the point of the game. The goal is to beat the game not to get a highscore. So anyway, during the game you have assorted "jungle" weapons to fight with : regular bananas which are infinite but do the least damage, double bananas, which inflict twice the damage of the single banana, boomerangs, coconuts, and an invincibility mask that activates when you have it selected and protects you for the time indicated next to it. There is a life counter at the top left of the screen, which also acts as your life meter, the score in the middle and the remaining gems in the level to the right. At the bottom left is the current weapon and how many shots of it you have left, in the middle is the timer and a compass at the right which I haven't really figured out what it points at. There are three ways of dying, in which case you lose a life from the top left of the screen : one is the traditional way - getting hurt too much - the color on Mowgli's head in the upper left will deplete as energy is lost. You can refill by finding hearts. The other way of dying is falling in an instant death hazard like holes or water. Basically the entire bottom of the screen is an instant death. And finally you lose a life if the timer runs out. You can refill the timer by collecting an hourglass. The death sequence is pretty funny - two monkey doctors run in with a stretcher to carry you away. If you lose all your lives you get 3 continues from the begining of the level you died on, before geting a definitive "game over" and have to start the game from level 1. There is no way to save the game, you have to beat it in one sitting, which is a bit of a nuisance because it's a long game, and it gets tough quite quickly, especially on the "hard" difficulty where the timer for one thing is ruthless. For the time, the graphics are pretty good - they resemble the characters from the movie, they are cartoonish and colorful and the music is a really nice touch, reusing popular songs from the movie like the intro song, "Bare necessities" and king Louie's "I wanna be like you". Sure there is some stock music here and there but there wasn't a great variety of music in the movie to begin with so it's excusable. The game also seems to hit all the key scenes of the movie : the meeting with Kaa, the dawn patrol, the river scene, the ruins and the fight with king Louie, and of course the fight with Shere Khan, though the last two are a bit out of place because if you've watched the movie you'll know that Mowgli doesn't directly take on king Louie by himself - Baloo and Bagheera come to rescure him. And also he doesn't fight Shere Khan at the end, Baloo does, while Mowgli ties the flaming branch to his tail, scaring him of. Final verdict ? With the exception of the lack of a save feature, the game is definitely great for its time, give it a shot.
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Released in 1990, Silver Surfer is notorious for being one of the hardest game in the NES library. I decided to test this by making this playthroug...
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Released in 1990, Silver Surfer is notorious for being one of the hardest game in the NES library. I decided to test this by making this playthrough and what I can say is that it's not that easy indeed. The main reason why it's so difficult is because every hazard in the game is a one-hit death, even the floors and ceilings, not to mention the truck-load of enemies you have to deal with. However once you upgrade your weapon enough it's fairly easy, at least for a while because when you die the weapon also goes back to its original power. All I can advise you to do is press down the fire button and never let go. Every level is an endurance and you'll be begging for a powerup, which come in the form of icons with a letter on them. The letter "S" is the one which will give you an extra life. Much like in Mega Man you can choose which level to take on every time. There are 5 of them, with an additional one added after you complete the initial 5. Not a bad game but really frustrating
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