The year was 1985, and Nintendo was planning on making a new video game franchise known as Ice Climber, which is about an eskimo kid whacking enemies with a mallet and climbing mountains. It may not be anywhere near as well known as Mario, Pokemon, or The Legend of Zelda, but it's a good game regardless. How good do I think this game really is? Well, I will now tell you by making this new review, enjoy!

Graphics: 7/10 The graphics for Ice Climber is pretty good, even though it has a black background. The different sections of the mountain are colored differently which I think is pretty neat, instead of having it all be one color. The character designs also look very nice for a mid 1980's game. Overall, I think that Ice Climber has pretty nice graphics. For that reason, I'm giving the graphics a 7.

Sound: 5/10 Ice Climber has an okay soundtrack. I guess the music is kinda catchy, but it's nowhere near as catchy as other classics from around that time like Super Mario Bros soundtrack. Also, Ice Climber music is not memorable at all. The only way I'd recognize the music is if I were to start playing the game again. Overall, Ice Climber does have an okay soundtrack, therefore I'm giving the soundtrack for Ice Climber a 5.

Addictiveness: 8/10 Ice Climber is a pretty addicting game that you'll want to play a lot of times so that you can try and beat your high score. Climbing the mountains and beating up the enemies with your mallet is very satisfying. Also there's plenty of replay value because there's always a way for you to improve your high score, and since this game has great gameplay, you'll be wanting to get that new high score badly. For these reasons, I'm giving the addictiveness an 8.

Story: N/A Ice Climber really doesn't have much of a story. For that reason, I'm leaving this category blank.

Depth: 7/10 In Ice Climber, there are a total of 32 mountains for you to conquer, and those mountains are not easy for you to beat, so if you want to conquer all the mountains the game has to offer, then Ice Climbers will keep you busy for a long time. While there are games with more levels to beat than there are in this game, I say there's more than enough content in this game for me to give Ice Climber's depth a 7.

Difficulty: 9/10 Ice Climber can be a very difficult game because the mountains can be very slippery (ICE is in the title after all), and jumping onto platforms can be very tricky. The reason for this is because even though you're able to make high jumps, you barely able to move in a certain direction in the middle of your jump, which makes the bonus stages especially difficult. Ice Climber is a game that will test your skills as a gamer. Because the game is so hard, I'm giving the difficulty a 9.

Overall Score: 7/10 While Ice Climber may not be as good of a game as Mario 1 & 3, or Legend of Zelda, It's still a really good video game that people who are a fan of arcade style gaming should definitely try out at least once in their lifetime. It's got good graphics for an early 80's game, a good amount of levels, very addicting gameplay, and it provides a good challenge. Ice Climber may not be one of the very best titles on the NES, I think that it's still good enough to recieve a 7 out of 10 from me. I hope you enjoyed this review.

Good work again, gamer. I love that you explained the game well and kept it as short as you did. While a 1,000 word review of this would have been fine (assuming you didn't get off track with it), it's entirely unnecessary to try to make it that long. If this game is as simple as it looks, then even 500 words would be fine.

Anyway, good job writing and keeping the reader engaged as long as needed.

That was yet another good review of yours. It's short, yet informative. And you make comparisons to other games which is always a big plus for me.

However, since you already give your grade at the beginning of the paragraph I don't see why you would repeat at the end. It doesn't bring anything else.

Good job gamer! I've played this game today for the first time and now that I've read your review I have to agree with you on every point. The hammer is a great weapon but unlike Mario or Samus your jumps are terrible. The game has good graphics though.

Eirinn : Thanks a lot! I'm glad you think I did a good job with this review.

juuldude : I'm happy that you decided to give this game a try and that you agree with what I said about this game as well.

Yeah, it was one of those games I had never played so I wanted to try it out. And yeah, you worded everything well ^^