/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10258067]

Decent platformers for handhelds? I was positively surprised by DKL - if only they had decreased the size of the sprites for handheld so I could see more than three character-widths ahead...

[Anonymous No.10258072]

[Anonymous No.10258085]

Check out >>10257834 and pic related. Super Mario Land 2 and some of the Sonic GG/SMS games are also pretty solid. GBC has Mega Man Xtreme games, a weird DKC port, Shantae, Santa Claus Jr, and a few others

[Anonymous No.10258102]

>>10258085
I've been playing the sequel to your picture lately and it's been surprisingly good. Absolutely insane pick for a Switch remake though. Anyways, those kinds of puzzle platformers suit handhelds well.

[Anonymous No.10258118]

>>10258085
>DK 94'
that really is the best GB game all days forever.

[Anonymous No.10258235]

>>10258067
I grew up with a Gameboy but no SNES, and therefore DKL over DKC. I love all three games. The two Kirby's Dream Land games for GB are excellent as well (the first is short an easy, but the "extra" hard mode is surprisingly tough. 2 is just a charming good time). Super Mario Land 1 is a bit basic, but 2 is a solid Mario game and once the series becomes Wario Land it's very much it's own thing. The Mega Man GB series has it's fans, but I never found one that grabbed me like the SNES ones. If we're talking about games for later handhelds, though, the Mega Man Zero series for GBA is *chef's kiss.*

[Anonymous No.10258287]

Wario Land 4 is one of the best platformers of all time.

[Anonymous No.10258320]

>>10258287
I've always meant to check these games out. Should I jump straight into 4 or is it worth playing the earlier games first?

[Anonymous No.10258326]

>>10258320
They're all pretty different so you can start with 4 or any other game in the series.

[Anonymous No.10258398]

>>10258067
obligatory 6 Golden Coins. Goes without saying, but still a great game.

[Anonymous No.10258414]

>>10258235
I grew up with dkc but as I get older I like the way dkl looks with pallettes, I think left b or left a or someshit, anyways.... Yeah

[Anonymous No.10258428]

>>10258102
MvDK is a worthy successor, a pity everything afterwards wasn't

[Anonymous No.10258456]

castlevania 2

[Anonymous No.10258976]

>>10258067
>Decent platformers for handhelds?
I'm going to give OP an early Christmas present and list some good Game Gear stuff, Sonic and Disney to be more specific, since those are the highlight platformers of the console to me:

Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic Chaos
Sonic Triple Trouble
"Castle of Illusion" starring Mickey Mouse
"Land of Illusion" starring Mickey Mouse
"Legend of Illusion" starring Mickey Mouse
"Lucky Dime Caper" starring Donald Duck
"Deep Duck Trouble" starring Donald Duck

[Anonymous No.10258985]

>>10258067
The Smurfs is a banger, though im pretty sure the dragon boss cant be beat if you play it on the hard difficulty. Only other criticism i have is using lines is a little slippery.

[Anonymous No.10258992]

>>10258985
*using vines

[Anonymous No.10258994]

>>10258428
>Stages mostly boil down to switch puzzles with none of the clever and at times sadistic design of the '94 game
Nah.

[Anonymous No.10259063]

>>10258067
some of the metroid games are good.

[Anonymous No.10259075]

On GB, Looney Tunes and Hammerin Harry are some high tier games that people don't really talk about.
Whichever Batman game is the really good one too. I think It's Batman: The Animated Series.

[Anonymous No.10260595]

>>10259063
all*

[Anonymous No.10260801]

>>10258085
>insert larp about not knowing about the game thinking it was just a port of the original DK arcade only to be lol mind blown.

[Anonymous No.10260806]

>>10258320
4 is worst in the series. It’s just a standard platform we. Play 2 and 3 first as they actually do things somewhat unique for the time

[Anonymous No.10260824]

>>10260801
This literally happened to me though

[Anonymous No.10261514]

>>10258067
The klonoa games for the wonderswan are, like, excellent handheld platformers.

Also the Wario Land serie is fantastic.

[Anonymous No.10261516]

>>10258287
I've always prefered Wario Land 3, for some reasons.

[Anonymous No.10261920]

>>10258067
>Star wars empire strikes back
>Super star wars return of the Jedi
>Balloon kid
>Oddworld adventures 1/2
>Antz
>Gex 2/3
>Atlantis the Lost empire
>The mummy

[Anonymous No.10262007]

>>10260824
I think that happened to most of us lol

[Anonymous No.10262662]

>>10258085
Xtreme 2 is such a good game. Being able to play as Zero in an 8-bit game is really cool.

[Anonymous No.10263242]

>>10258085
>some of the Sonic GG/SMS games are also pretty solid
I owned Sonic 2 for the Game Gear and I fucking hated it. Borderline unplayable. The Sonic Advance games are pretty good though.

[Anonymous No.10263684]

>>10263242
I still don't understand how they thought it was fine for release... they didn't optimize it for the Game Gear's screen at all, like they did for Sonic 1, and the worst part is that there are sections here made HARDER than the Master System, it makes no sense... the 1st boss is the main thing that comes to mind, on Master System, where you already have a better resolution, the bombs always bounce low... and then on the Game Gear where you CAN'T SEE MUCH they changed it so the BOMBS BOUNCE DIFFERENT EACH TIME. I'll never forgive them for doing that to my kid self.

P.S. If you haven't already, play the Master System version, it's actually an excellent Sonic title on that console and I love playing it, it's just that they didn't optimize it at all while porting it to the Game Gear, but it's a good game.

[Anonymous No.10263724]

>>10263684
>P.S. If you haven't already, play the Master System version, it's actually an excellent Sonic title on that console and I love playing it, it's just that they didn't optimize it at all while porting it to the Game Gear, but it's a good game.
I might check it out, I remember getting walled by the minecart level since you can't see jack ahead of you in the GG version.

[Anonymous No.10264250]

>>10263724
I hope you have a fun time if you get around to playing it, changing the version genuinely made this one go from one of my least favorite Sonic titles to one of my favorites by far, it becomes a lot more manageable when you can actually see things like in the Genesis titles... also, getting a 100% completion run here is a lot more fun, at least compared to the Genesis version, because the Special Stages in Sonic 2 are a pain, while in this one you just find the Chaos Emeralds in the levels by exploring, it's really fun, though some are placed in really cheap places to find without a guide or something... but if you don't get 100% Tails dies in the end, so do it. Anyways, cheers!

[Anonymous No.10264882]

>>10258067
I've finished both Sonic & Tails and Sonic & Tails 2 recently, and I have to say... they feel like a lot of missed potential, because of one change they've made from the previous duology... the emeralds. In Sonic 1 and Sonic 2, you just found them in the levels, which was fun as it gave the player a good incentive to explore... but in this duology we had the return of special stages for the emeralds... I don't mind these much, but after getting used to not having them in the previous titles, it's not an exciting thing to see them back, especially since they're not much fun, especially on Sonic & Tails 2... also, Sonic & Tails asks you to get 100 rings to just access the special stages, this means levels are filled with rings, which makes them quite an easy time if you're just playing from point A to B, and levels are way too short... also, nothing gets my blood boiling more than getting around 90 rings only to get hit. Sonic & Tails 2 is probably a bit better in regards to accessing them, but the level design in them, especially special stage 3 and 5... I didn't enjoy playing it, at all, and it's a shame, since these titles feel a lot more like the Genesis titles, with a spin dash and even super peel out, a lot more slopes too... but level design and special stages make them a lot worse. I don't want to give people the wrong idea though, both are good video games, but could've been a lot more, still worth a playthrough though.

[Anonymous No.10265265]

>>10258067

I did love Donkey Kong Land on the GameBoy. But I never actually played it on a real GameBoy, only through the Super GameBoy. I think the game plays better on the SGB.

[Anonymous No.10265296]

>>10258067
Yeah, DKL looks like a fucking mess on an original GameBoy.

[Anonymous No.10265302]

>>10258287
now we are waiting decades for a good wario game because they must inject new ideas on the gameplay
fucking faggots

[Anonymous No.10265321]

>>10258067

[Anonymous No.10265332]

I think the Bill and Ted game is the only Gameboy platformer I actually finished.

Very basic, but surprisingly fun.

[Anonymous No.10265340]

...Why is Kirby so underrated?

[Anonymous No.10265363]

>>10265340
Because it looks really cool but doesn't have much. It's 20 minutes long and even the Extra mode is pretty basic aside from a few bosses.