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Still, if you do manage to pull through and enjoy the whole trilogy, or just want to skip the gameplay in favor of the story due to the Fast Mode difficulty setting, then I think you’ll find a pretty good finale to a fun trilogy of strategy RPGs.
Bubble Ghost Remake’s newer levels just don’t compare to the simplistic fun those levels offered. It greatly expands upon the original concept, but maybe a bit too much.
Sure, you have local co-op, but there’s little else to take away from the overall experience and nothing really memorable about it besides the Cho Aniki-esque humor and the overpowered muscular forms you can take up to obliterate bosses.
While Beyond may be pretty simple and a game you can jump into and know what to do right away, that doesn’t mean it can’t be some serious fun, and I found it to be a great and chill way to break some bricks while passing the time. Choice Provisions really did the concept great justice here!
From stages that offer some of the best horizontal shooting action on the entire console without hesitation, to a fun romp of stages that still offer a lot of enjoyment even at the lowest lows, this game is an easy recommend for fans of SNES action games. Really if it was just the horizontal shooting levels, I’d even say it’s a game so good I could recommend to everyone.
Just don’t expect this to be the GBA’s surprise Ninja Gaiden II or Shinobi III tier masterpiece, and compared to other Konami action games, this one is pretty simple in comparison.
Thankfully, the games do the talking here, and I find some of these games are absolutely worth everyone’s time. If you happen to click with one of the GBA simulators and want more of that action? Well, there’s only around several more games mandating you win a hundred duels each to go through, so you’ll be kept well busy for a long, long time.
Ultimately, X-Out Resurfaced is a shooter that’s definitely more fun for fans of the original game compared to a newcomer such as myself. A lot of QOL tweaks help make the game enjoyable to play and less tedious than the Amiga original, but make no mistake, Resurfaced is still a very vicious experience.
This one’s just really darn fun to scorechase in, and I definitely see myself revisiting those Arcade leaderboards over and over in the months to come, especially with how silky smooth this port feels as a whole.
Sorcerian this ain’t, but you’ll be finding some fun in rolling the dice and clearing scenarios no matter how experienced at these kind of games you are, and I’m just happy to see one of the most obscure Technos franchises get the western release it missed out on.
This 40th Anniversary edition somehow manages to be outright terrible in so many ways. No D-Pad controls, weird input timing, one of the most hideous presentations I’ve ever dealt with here on SFG, and a lot of baffling design choices led to this remake being pretty darn infuriating and very unfun to play.
All in all, a well emulated, if simplistic set of sports games where I’m happy to say Qubyte has greatly improved their compilation skills since I last covered them; sadly, the lack of bonus material still stings a little bit for me, even if the core games themselves are mostly fun.
Still, if you’ve always been curious what an Arcade game would be like in 3D without completely reinventing everything, Snow Bros Wonderland is a fun example of that possibility.
While I am happy to see SEEP’s interesting catalog get introduced to a new audience, Ninja 1987 is a pretty disappointing start to that trend.
At the very least, this is a great value regardless of where you choose to play it, and the best proof of how Tetris is a timeless concept that’ll continue to be engaging for years and years to come.
But as it stands, Card-En-Ciel is just a decent time that will ultimately appeal to you more if you like Inti’s style a lot and are willing to deal with the bland barriers in the way of a very fun combat system.
Really, I’m at least glad this set had more time in the oven to not be a total disaster like the first volume, and I can even say this is a decent little collection of games if you like shooting titles. Sadly, with no real extras or any bonuses besides online leaderboards, this is still a really steep ask for the price point, and I once again feel that all three of these titles would have been far better as Arcade Archives titles.
The improved speed and slight QOL make the game more fun to play than the original version, yes, but the smaller screen and weird controls sorta offset those gains, and even the QOL doesn’t do much to help the fact that the first Aero is an incredibly tedious series of chores that aren’t all that fun to play around with.
Taking out the dull, tedious chores from the first game, some of the slow paced movement from the second game, and adding in a bunch of way more engaging combat mechanics and several techniques rewarding skilled play, and you have yourselves a really darn fun action platformer.
While I can’t say I’m a megafan now after playing this, I’m way happier to say I finally have a Worms game under my belt that entertained me, which I couldn’t say about my last Worms experience; GBA Worms Blast.