/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3746370
Earthworm Jim, if you get past gimmick stages

>>3643218
Not good? Well, I can certainly say I prefer them to gimmicky stages. Especially when I had all those guns to choose from which I never got to shoot anyway. I only really liked Villi People, somehow I started liking it after 50+ plays.

EWJ1 had pretty OK platforming and run 'n' gun really. Nothing extraordinary, but it wasn't bad either.

At least we can agree EWJ had poor gimmicky stages.

>>3440897
> That quiz was incredible.
You mean GrOoVy?!

>>3440690
Why?

Imagine you bought this game back when it came out. You await some great run n' gun adventure, you saw the great first level and though: "wow, if the whole game is exactly like this, this might be the best game EVER".

Well, fuck you.

On level 3, you get Puppy Love, which is not "run", and not even "gun". It's a kind of a "bonus" stage, but it lasts longer than some normal levels in the game. There's nothing you can do to speed it up; it doesn't have any variety, and it's always exactly the same.

It's akin to some old Game and Watch title. Except you don't move in fixed positions, you do so gradually, you have a tiny trampoline in your hands, and fuck if I know where exactly it begins and where it ends. Oh yeah, Jim can also jump forward—a feature you HAVE to use later. Needless to say, it's even harder to aim than the trampoline.

Bounce the puppies. Go back. Bounce the puppies. Go back. Rinse. Wash. Repeat. Oh, did I mention you get Puppy Love every 3 levels? In a game where you barely even get normal run n' gun levels until around Level Ate. Yeah.

Just makes you wonder why the devs were SO desperate to make all those gimmicky levels, when they had everything going for a good run n' gun—from the arsenal to new abilities.

>>3325719
That's small potatoes compared to the quiz in Earthworm Jim 2.