05-31-2015, 04:06 AM
Here is my first mini review for the GameCom... focusing on Williams Arcade Classics, a game Ashens ripped to shreds in his reviews. Originally posted to my Facebook, but I updated it a bit...
This is a collection of five ports of Defender, Defender II, Joust, Sinistar, and Robotron 2084. While the game is playable, it has a few things preventing it from being truly good...
First off, the blurry LCD. It's not really an issue with Sinistar, Joust, or Robotron, but it makes playing the Defender games tough. When you move at full speed, you can hardly see the enemy projectiles and smaller aliens.
Secondly, speed. The Defender games have okay speed, but Joust is a bit slow but playable. Robotron and Sinistar.... well, Robotron plays decently enough the first few levels in. After level five, the amount of enemies starts slowing the game to a crawl and causes your control to lag a bit. Sinistar runs at a slow framerate and it ends up ruining the experience.
One last note about Robotron... it's far too easy. If you leave bonuses set at 10,000 points, you can really rack up the extra lives. The only way to get some difficulty out of it is to set bonuses at 20,000 and play on Hard, Robotron is meant to be hard... I can't even get past the fourth wave in the Genesis port, which is faithful to the arcade board. With the Game.com, I can last above Wave 30 and still have extra lives left.
Overall, this is just 'meh'. Playable, but nothing exciting. I can see why Ashens ripped this game as he appears to be an arcade game collector. Robotron is also far too easy in this particular port.
This is a collection of five ports of Defender, Defender II, Joust, Sinistar, and Robotron 2084. While the game is playable, it has a few things preventing it from being truly good...
First off, the blurry LCD. It's not really an issue with Sinistar, Joust, or Robotron, but it makes playing the Defender games tough. When you move at full speed, you can hardly see the enemy projectiles and smaller aliens.
Secondly, speed. The Defender games have okay speed, but Joust is a bit slow but playable. Robotron and Sinistar.... well, Robotron plays decently enough the first few levels in. After level five, the amount of enemies starts slowing the game to a crawl and causes your control to lag a bit. Sinistar runs at a slow framerate and it ends up ruining the experience.
One last note about Robotron... it's far too easy. If you leave bonuses set at 10,000 points, you can really rack up the extra lives. The only way to get some difficulty out of it is to set bonuses at 20,000 and play on Hard, Robotron is meant to be hard... I can't even get past the fourth wave in the Genesis port, which is faithful to the arcade board. With the Game.com, I can last above Wave 30 and still have extra lives left.
Overall, this is just 'meh'. Playable, but nothing exciting. I can see why Ashens ripped this game as he appears to be an arcade game collector. Robotron is also far too easy in this particular port.
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