Alien 3 (SNES)

Genuinely terrible not good.

This one is almost half decent, so much so it's a real shame it's not.

The graphics have aged very well imo, and aside from the awkward jumping animation it's not far off Flashback levels of fluidity. The backgrounds are top notch to, it's league's better than the Mega Drive game.

The open structure of the levels is a decent idea and adds a decent amount of variety, but ultimately It's a bit to convoluted for its own good.

Like the Mega Drive game the controls are just a bit to stiff. It's not as bad as the Mega Drive game and coming off the back of that it almost feels good, but in reality it's far worse than many of its contemporaries.

This is one of the first times I feel the CVG High Five rating system I've adopted for this thread can't do the game justice.

It's one I want to like more than I do, a 2 feels harsh but a 3 would be far to generous.

2/5

My Reviews

I'd be up for any of those, Hagane especially but I think some have played through it in here. I played Wild Guns fairly recently but could do again, would be my last choice from that lot though, great as it is.

On a side note I do love a bit of SNESdrunk

Tossed a coin, True Lies it is

nick_md wrote:

On a side note of my own, do you have a link to a decent snes mini hack guide, retro? Or is it as easy as googling the question?

https://snesclassicmods.com/how-to-add-more-games-to-snes-classic-mini/

That mostly worked - just can't seem to get boxart to auto fill, and the google images option doesn't seem to work, will need to manually add.

Last question - does anyone have a reliable rom source? Looking for TL atm and can't find anything that isn't an exe or a spam site.

nick_md wrote:

That mostly worked - just can't seem to get boxart to auto fill, and the google images option doesn't seem to work, will need to manually add.

What version of Hakchi you got?

Have you tried right clicking and selecting > scrape selected games?

Ah what a fuckin game

If you want to add more systems or a SNES ROM doesn't work on the stock emulator, click the Modules tab at the top and select KMFD's mod hub.

Then click KMFD cores and add away, it should be easy enough to figure out from there.

Games up to PSone should run fine, although I can't vouch for how it'll look on the UI because I've only added games from the console of origin to my mini consoles. 

Bit silly I know, but it makes them look and feel all the more authentic and I really like using original pads with each system.

I'll give that a try after work, ta

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Super Spike Volleyball = best ever vg volleyball memories

Played a lot of this at uni - surprisingly good vb game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS5Iy2Uhuhs

Nice.

Gamecube got Beach Spikers - looks great. I haven't played it a huge amount but I remember it was a great slice of arcadey amusement.

I had similar thoughts on the two levels I did the other day, it's good enough but doesn't excel.

My main gripe was the control with shooting - it feels very 'sticky' or clunky, I don't feel the fixed-aim button really helps and I was always having to take care lining up shots, when I'd prefer a looser shooting that I could have more movement with. Plus the way there's no auto-switch weapon when you run out of ammo fucked me a couple of times.

But, like you say, by no means bad, I'm having fun and will go through a few more levels for sure. I also found the shotgun pretty satisfying to use.

More hot takes pending.

Was on my list to suggest but I figured it must've been done already - was one of my top few favourites on the system, absolutely loved it. Would definitely revisit (think I put it on the mini the other day).

The Pal version had a suicide cut from it, I believe.

I also doubt I clocked it in the day although I definitely remember getting very far. Great game.