Moot_Geeza wrote:Knights of the Round - Switch (45 mins)
Funny how these scrolling beat 'em ups fare today. I thought this was absolute bobbins in comparison to Captain Commando. It's been a long time since I played Double Dragon but I'm convinced that had a wider range of moves than this. All this seemed to offer was a basic stab-stab-stab attack combo, an ineffective jumping slash and a special that didn't seem worth bothering with as it depleted more of your own energy bar than your opponent's. If Retro hadn't mentioned the block/parry I wouldn't have known it was there, so perhaps I played the entire game hammering two buttons when three were on offer. Certainly with my double button approach it never felt like the moveset was wide enough to deal with the bosses in particular, which puts it at a sub-TMNT standard in terms of flagrant coin guzzling - it's deal a hit and get one back stuff in places. The characters are varied at a glance, but they all felt equally underpowered in battle. Big chopper Percival is slow but can run (there's no specific running attack though, he just stops and performs a standard attack), I guess rapier Lancelot :eyes: moves a little quicker in general and the fifth character (Arthur, presumably carrying a moist Excalibur) probably deals damage somewhere in the middle. Meh. Always liked the look of this but wasn't feeling it at all. Golden Axe doesn't get nearly as much credit as it deserves in the 80s-into-90s scrolling beat 'em up hack 'n slash field. Yes, you gradually level up throughout the game here, but only to stay a step or two behind irritating enemies that love hogging the space just beyond outer edges of the screen. [3] My favourite bit was these two chaps in the background, so I'm glad someone's made a gif of them:
davyK wrote:Anyone ever play the Golden Axe versus fighter game that the Saturn got?
The Golden Axe track in Sonic Racing Transformed is a cracker.
retroking1981 wrote:Was a Saturn game I had when my collection was at its peak. Unfortunately like most ebay purchases in the early 2000s I only played it once to test it worked.davyK wrote:Anyone ever play the Golden Axe versus fighter game that the Saturn got? The Golden Axe track in Sonic Racing Transformed is a cracker.
ESWAT is great until level 3 when it gets nails.Moot_Geeza wrote:Any thoughts on ESWAT? I think I've only played a stage or two of the MD version. Borrowed the MS version for a while as a kid.
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