Overall 9.2 Graphics 9.5 Sound 8.5 Addictive 7 Story 9 Depth 6.5 Difficulty 6
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Golden Ax arcade jlh
Sega's 1989 Golden Ax has five levels of sword or ax slash em up action! Pick between three heroes each having different magic abilities and strengths, plus each character has a special attack. Plenty of enemies and bosses, plus creatures that you can ride on, such as a red dragon that hurls fire balls across the screen, a blue dragon that breathes fire on the ground and a wingless bird type creature that whips its tail at enemies.
Depth: 8
Having only five levels and it is a pretty straight forward game, I still rated the depth pretty high because the three heroes have different magic and strengths. The girl warrior has the most powerful magic (fire) and is pretty fast but is weaker then the others. The dwarf has the lowest magic (lightning) but he has the strongest regular attack. The barbarian has medium level magic (earth) and medium strength and speed.Character attacks include a running attack, two different jumping attacks and a special attack that is different with two characters. So after beating this game with one character it is fun to play as the other two as well, adding to the depth of the game.
Overall: 8
A great game, if you like beat em up games then I definitely recommend playing this one. The music is cool, player control is good and the graphics and boards are nice, so yea I gave it an 8.
Graphics: 9
The enemies and boards are well drawn or pixelated. Plenty of different enemies, some are the same but different levels of the same enemy are coloured different according to their strength level. The different types and levels of magic each hero possesses are fun to watch. Some of the boards are pretty unique adding to the graphics and the overall score of this games rating.
Sound: 8
The only thing missing is voice affects, other then that this game has cool barbarian song tracks that fit the game nicely. Other sound effects included in attacking, using magic and when you eliminate your enemies.
Addictiveness: 7
Kind of a low score for a great game but after you play the game with all three characters and see all the levels of magic, it's a pretty done deal. While it is a fun game to play I rated the replay value a 7.
Story: 8
Although I'm hard to please with most video game stories and this game has a typical bad guy takes the king and queen hostage, I rated it pretty high just because of the little things in the story like the elves that give and take magic from you, multiply and unique enemies and the beasts you can control add to the score of the story rating.
Difficulty: 7
This game can be challenging unless you have an endless amount of quarters to spend. The player controls are good and the enemy's patterns aren't that hard to figure out, it is just a challenge to beat, witch is a good thing.
Graphics 9 Sound 8 Addictive 7 Story 8 Depth 8 Difficulty 7
Review Rating: 5/5
Submitted: 11-16-12
Review Replies: 0
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Golden Axe for Coin-op classgame
As of right now, anything goes, but isn't this a MAME? yes but technically I never played this during a vacation so......technically I can do this right here right now. There are alot of things that are different from the coin-op version than the home release, I should start with the story.
Gameplay and Story: The game begins with a dude with crutches and the bad guys finish him off, and the character we
selected approaches the soldier by name....which is Alex. Oh I always though that this was Sega's subtle way of saying that they weren't going to make any more Alex Kidd games, guess I was wrong (though during the demo stuff we find out that the characters we
select have lost more than Alex, the dwarf lost his brother, the dude with the sword lost his mother, and the female warrior...yeah sorry I forgot everyone's names, lost her parents to Death Adder). So with their weapons they fight these soldiers, ride dragons, go after thieves that have magic pots and food to extend your life bar, and save the king and princess.
Graphics: Well there is a slight difference here, the eagle and the turtle? their eyes move now and not much else.
Sound: well to be honest, it's not much to write home about it's a bit longer though.
Addictive: Well it's hard to be addicted to a game that doesn't last very long.
Depth: Well unfortunately this game is shorter than the home release versions, we don't get a final battle with whoever Death Adder was taking orders from, after we save the king and the princess we go back to the map and it says Fin, and then we go to a cut scene where we see a bunch of kids playing the game and all the characters pop up and they go around the city. Oh I almost forgot we see alot more of the bad people we're supposed to fight beating up innocent civilians.
Difficulty: The one thing I do hate about coin-op games is that it doesn't come with the options that the home release would have, and by that I mean strengthening my lifeline, thank god coin-ops allow for more chances.
Post-review follow up: Well this was fun to play at least, but I had to play this on a different site because the MAME won't work on RetroArch and the JS Emulator is having a loading issue right now. I wish I knew if any of the other games I owned were also Coin Ops since I've enjoyed playing the coin-op versions as well wish I could play Streets of Rage for coin-op though. I'll give it a good score but it loses a point in the overall rating because it's short
Graphics 10 Sound 9 Addictive 7 Story 10 Depth 5 Difficulty 5
Review Rating: 3/5
Submitted: 07-06-21
Review Replies: 1
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