This thread is in response to a review for Wizards & Warriors on the NES. You are encouraged to view the review in a new window before reading this thread.
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Author: qxz
Posted: December 26, 2010 (09:01 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
JTD, I am also one of those guys who thought Wizards & Warriors was great gaming in the mid-1990s. My own recent playthroughs have tarnished my opinion of the game to some degree, though not as harshly as yours. I'm actually rather curious as through which perspective you were looking at W&W.
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Author: JoeTheDestroyer (Mod)
Posted: December 27, 2010 (01:14 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I never considered the angle at which I looked at it, but I think it would be from today's standards. Even judging it from then, I think it still doesn't quite hold up. It might have been a 5 or 6 then, though. I think I liked it much more as a kid mainly because I didn't know how to analyze a game back then. I only thought, "Hey, I can actually beat this game," and that meant something to me then because beating a game was a rare occasion. These days, not so much.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: December 27, 2010 (03:13 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
That's why I loved the game growing up, Joe. Its easiness. It was a game that I could go through and beat in a couple of hours, so I played it a lot. When I reviewed it, it was based on its own merits after not having played it for a number of years. I couldn't really understand why I liked it so much in the past.
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Author: qxz
Posted: December 27, 2010 (03:54 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I don't disagree that Wizards & Warriors is a game that's easy to complete. However, I find W&W's difficulty to be inconsistent -- especially if trying to complete the game on one credit -- but that's only because the enemies in the game cough up random goodies upon their deaths. I've had rounds where I've been able to make it far into the game due to a rather generous supply of health-restoring meat and red invulnerability potions; only once have I beaten W&W on the first credit. More often than not, I often have trouble making it past the third cave level before the dreaded "game over" screen.
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Author: JoeTheDestroyer (Mod)
Posted: December 27, 2010 (04:18 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
As for Ironsword, I remember that game being weird...like, there was this point a bit before the Earth monster (maybe when you enter the Earth level) where you suddenly can't continue anymore or something like that, isn't there?
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