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1 Adventure 2 Many by dragonpup
01-22-17 09:59 AM
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One Adventure Too Many?
Introduction:
1 Adventure 2 Many is hard to review, as it is a small "ROM-hack" of an already small game. It modifies Adventure, as clued in by the title, an early and fundamental adventure game, by changing the cosmetic look of dragons and other on-screen items, while also replacing the Easter Egg room with a more personal message from the "hacker". That is all there is to the hack of this game, so drawing the line between reviewing the hack and the base game is slightly uncomfortable. Except for the obviously changed graphics, I will review the rest of the game as if I were reviewing Adventure.
Graphics:
The graphics have been improved a small bit over the vanilla game, but the differences are sometimes even negligible. Dragons share the same body structure as before, the smaller items almost seem unchanged, and wider graphical changes are not made. Finally, Adventure has a glitch where if there are multiple entities of the combined types of enemies and or carriable items are on the screen at once, carriable items and even walls can suddenly disappear. This even eliminates the entity's collision detection. This very glitch allows for the Easter Egg to exist. I don't think the ROM hack detracted from the graphics at all however, and Adventure still has above graphics compared to many Atari 2600 games. Colors stand out and are used very effectively for level design. (The themed labyrinths, especially the orange labyrinth's limited light, was very masterful for this period in game design.) The enemy types are clearly differentiable. The use of a pixel as the protagonist aids the immersion. This leads me to believe that this game deserves a 7 for its graphics.
Sound:
Quite honestly, the sound is average. It gets the job done of notifying the player that an items has been picked up, or that an enemy is attacking, but otherwise there is no flourish. There was never much room for flourish, but I think the game's sound effects ... Read the rest of this Review
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