Unit 13 is a good game, very much worth getting. It's nothing super-special, but it can be really enjoyable & fun, especially if you don't mind the lack of story and can enjoy the score attack aspect of the game.
Tried to work through my backlog because my new card is already full
Who was that guy here heralding Superfrog? I just played the game again after a long while and got frustrated within 15 minutes. That second world is just bullshit, so many leaps of faiths (I saw the markings, they don't help) and an overall annoying level design combined with the strangely floaty controls are just too much. I felt like the Angry Video Game Nerd.
World 1 was ok and I had some fun with it, even with the weird controls and oldschool/backwards gamedesign but world 2 is just bad and I am even playing the new levels, not the original ones.
I grew up with an Amiga and can't remember playing Superfrog or Alien Breed but had very fond memories of the platform so I bought those games. Maybe there was a good reason why I can't remember these games because both remakes by Team 17 suck.
I don't think I'll give the game another chance again any time soon.
And if explicit signs are not enough here implicit signs that tell you where to go, look at the banners in the bottom-left of the image that say where a trampoline is(they are not even necessary since you came from it!) or the coins on the top-right that tell you exactly what to do.
Or here coins tell you where platforms are(i got the missing coins)
And when a trampoline makes you go high the camera zooms out to let you see everything and in fact the sign is visible!
These are just some examples! There are many many more!
It has even a bonus that stops you when there's danger to run on spikes!
What more should the game do?
, i guess that decades of unopposed domain of platformers with ultra-short, ultra-linear, left-to-right levels did high damages to the idea of platformer.
Because it hasn't even been announced yet outside of Japan?
I think I figured it out last night (this morning?) after you clarified the internet connection thing. I'll be sure to post impressions here if I do get it working, although you'll have to make do with Resogun/Contrast since I haven't actually bought any retail games yet.
This was me reading this:
Every excuse is good to post that gif lol
Leaps of faith? signs that don't help? Annoying level design? Floaty jumps?
WHAT? was the first thing that came in mind but then i said to myself that you are probably right, i look at superfrog through rose tinted lenses, you are neutral instead.
I can deal with annoying level design, maybe we have different ideas about level design, but leaps of faith? Signs that don't help? I remember superfrog to be over-guided, over-signed and over-safe.
But again it could be me, so since superfrog is still on my vita i decided to play those levels to see the truth.
Now vitagaf please help me, did i have visions? Am i the only one who saw signals EVERYWHERE, even where they are absolutely not necessary?
Jumping higher than mario doesn't mean being floaty, superfrog's high jumps help you reach high places while in ascension and when you go down they let you land where you want thanks to their high maneuverability.
After many months since the last time i played it in 15 minutes i made 3 levels without even dying and the beginning of the forth, so maybe you are not that good to it?
New levels are a piece of cake compared to the classic ones(man i'm still not able to do the last classic levels, i don't remember the game to be so hard...)!
It's really sad for me reading those things coming from an amiga owner
Anyway thanks to you i replayed it and i'll do it more often, especially to hear the original egyptian theme that i loved so much when i was a kid.
Something I didn't see comments about yet: how does the battery hold up during RP?
So here I am standing and it tells me not to jump to the left when I am going down. OK, I think, then I'll keep to the right.
Going down keeping to the right I find this. Oh yeah, there is a X marking telling me not to jump down there but how am I supposed to see that from above or react to it while falling? Sure, If I hadn't kept myself all to the right I wouldn't have died but I had to know that beforehand.
At this location you can only see the X marking when you are standing on the platform above, not the fire and safe platform beneath. I made the screenshot this way so you can see it better. It tells me not to fall into the middle except the middle is the only place where I can safely land.
I agree that amiga remakes sucks, superfrog included(graphics should have been better for example, and there are some changes from the original, but overall is not that bad), other than that i don't agree on the rest.
In this one there is an explicit sign that tells you where not to go and 2 implicit signs made by bonuses that tell you where to go. What developers should have added? The entire area where you can go is filled with signs!
here there are 2 platforms keeping you safe
Ok this sign is on the wrong place, but it's not even necessary since there is a platform that keeps you safe.
