To ensure peace, Khan says, Prince Myer must travel to the northern mountain to burn the Seven Bells in the sacred flame, burn down the seven bell towers in Rubas' magic palace, and, ultimately, defeat Rubas himself.'
HOW DOES THE GAME LIVE UP TO IT'S EXPLANATION/BOX ART? (5/10)
This game looks sweet, and this guy looks like a bad ass from the depths of Robert E. Howard's brain. Let's flip it over and read the back. Sounds like a pretty cool game other than these magic bells or whatever, but hey let's get this.
Well after the first five minutes of play... I have no idea what I'm doing, and the only thing that lives up to the cover art is the helmet, sorta, and the sword. This guy doesn't look anything like the Bad ass on the cover, and the game so far has nothing to do with the plot line, i think, other than the bell collecting from Bosses..
HOW IS THE GAME PLAY? (2/10)
Well this game, though looked awesome from the box art, plays like a really bad zelda rip off. Now, my main problem with the game isn't it's ungodly difficult everything, it's that every time you get hit by a monster/baddie you bounce like a quarter of the screen. Which wouldn't be a problem if it didn't constantly make you fly off the first tower you are on and die. (Dieing causes you to lose any of the money you've accumulated back to 50
The second problem is that instead of using your sword, you throw one from your constant supply of swords. Now that doesn't sound to bad at thought, but you can only throw one at a time. And, maybe that doesn't sound too bad either, other than every single enemy in this game takes about 5-300 hits to kill. Everything, even the blue blob that just moves up and down on the screen in front of you.
The third part wrong with the game is that you are so bombarded with normal villains that you die constantly. You only start with 100 HP, but everything hits you with the power of a boss, so you are constantly getting killed. Even though every time you have game over, which is just about every 3 to 5 minutes when you first start playing, there are Heart items randomly around the game that up your HP by 10. These do respawn after you die. So you can get some health up pretty quickly... not that it really helps.
HOW DOES THE GAME LIVE UP TO IT'S GENRE? (4/10)
It's one of the better Zelda style top down games. The controls are a little wonky at start, but the game forces you to get used to them with how hard it is. Which again, wouldn't be so hard if things actually died when you hit them a couple times. AND--- if at the beginning of the game you didn't get bumped off the castle tower and die constantly. But, the gamer shouldn't be forced to learn how control something by getting the shit kicked out of him or her while trying to have fun. AND- you get stuck on walls constantly and get gang banged by enemies if you didn't stand back and kill them all before progressing.
THE 'GAME OVER' ALL? (37%)
Now the way that I rate things, some stuff will get a decent score over all, this game obviously didn't. I would say if you want to play a game that is so evilly hard that it makes you want to beat your fists into the mattress or couch cushions, so you don't have to replace all the holes in your walls, by all means go pick this game up. It is one of the cheaper games on the system. I think I paid like two of three dollars for it, which oddly enough is the rating this game is getting. There are a lot of really bad games on the nintendo system (as well as every other), and I don't classify this game as bad, it's just so frustratingly hard that it makes you want to break your nintendo instead of hug it.
arbitrary credit for gore and nudity = 0 bonus points
-Felix "the Brett" Prescott
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