/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3410952
Yup. EJ2 was the first game I've owned. It annoyed me to no end. Not that the game was bad; it just had this forced variety of levels which I didn't really want or like.

For example, lvl 1 is just great—there are tons of different cool weapons, abilities, enemies, secrets, whatever. You learn the basic controls, physics, how to use Snott, etc.

But then comes Lorenzen's Soil, and you can only use one weapon in a level with pretty weird physics. OK, you think, maybe they just decided to give the player a slight break. And then you have Puppy Love.

By the time you beat it, you've probably grown hungry for just some more run & gun, if only to try all those fun weapons you had. But no! The devs decided it was time for Jim to turn into a different character and fly through a labyrinth lined with villi—again with different physics a la Balloon Fight (although I admit I kind of started to like it after dozens of plays). And level 5 is even further from all that! It's isometric shmup-like level where you have to bounce a fucking hot air balloon to the end of the stage, and try not to fuck it up with all the shit flying at you. And then, just to solidify the experience, you have ANOTHER Puppy Love.

I admit that the rest of the game has probably my favorite streak of stages—maybe aside from Udderly Abducted and, yeah, Puppy Love—again. But it's fucking ridiculous that exactly half of EJ2 is just some bullshit where you can't even shoot properly. The fucking irony of getting bonus weapons in Villi People which you barely even get a chance to use anywhere is just cruel.