/vr/ - Retro Games

Woah this game is sooo terrible.

I bought it because it was an action adventure/action rpg for the Mega Drive, and I love this genre beause I grew up with it playing games like Illusion Of Time/Gaia, Terranigma and Secret of Mana.

But man does this game suck. It was released in 1995 but it feels like a late 80's game. There are just so many design flaws it's just a chore to play.

>unintuitive controls
crouch and jump are the same button, so sometimes when you wanna jump you crouch first which makes platforming segments more difficult than they have to be. double tapping in a direction makes you run, which is okay, but combining it with platforming segment where you have to navigate tiny platforms with miniscule movement you often just run into a pit instead of just moving a tiny bit.

>flawed and repetitive combat
many attacks are triggered like in a fighting game or beat em up, with circle inputs or stuff like RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B. Seems like a cool concept, but in the game itself it's just overly complex an unnecessary. Sometimes you even trigger attack combos you just didn't want to trigger, which let you stuck in an attack animation and can result in cheap hits. And the game already has many many cheap hits. Jumping down a ledge? BOOM unavoidable enemy attack outta nowhere!
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