Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Review by: thenumberone - 5.1/10
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein(Super Nintendo )Well, in all honesty, I only decided to play this game as it had no review that met the minimum requirements, i didnt want to scrap what was there and leave it reviewless. Before then i left quite a few single reviews which were as little as 10 words so there was some kind of review, now im switching policys. so yeh, review incoming.
The game starts with a somewhat unimaginative title sequence, with a slide of words which progress so slow i can only imagine it was designed for very young children or they were trying to bulk out the gam, either way, the general gist of the thing is its set in bavaria (thats germany to you) in the early 19th century, and oddly enough its about frankenstein (the detectives in the audience may have divulged that from the title, high five).
you get the traditional mansion against a thundery backdrop image after this and then a cross of clip and picture shots basically showing the creation of Frankensteins monster (trivia fact, the monster was not called frankenstein, that was its creators name).
Aaaannnnyyyyyyyy who...
Actual game reviewing time i guess.
The game starts with you at the university where you are apparently created.
I say you as i think you are meant to be frankensteins monster, its kind of hard to tell though because youre wearing a trench coat and carrying a staff, which can fire some kind of magic bolt which dosent even hit people unless you stand well back from them, i tried crouching and firing it but it dosent actualy work while crouching. I thought it would come in handy shooting people on stairs (because then it wont just fly over there heads) but i quickly realised the npc's cant actually use stairs.
I assume the character is the monster due to the fact he's gray and pitchfork wielding villagers are after your head on a platter, or maybe theyre just not very sociable n germany, either way, youre droped right in it.
I began by descending the stairs, the natural enemy of all humans apparently, and fought one of said pitchfork wielding civilians. More came and i continued before realising it was compltely poitless because they just kept spawning out of doors.
So i carried on avoiding the plantpots being endlessly dropped out of windows.
There are a few unarmed women in the street which you cant attack because you may be a monster but yore also a gentleman...
Eventually my not so epic rampage took me to a wall in the middle of the street.
The germans were clearly far ahead of the world, pulling a few nooses protruding from the walls and jumping from window shelf to window shel allowed me to get on a magical floating platform, which took me up to the top of the roof, where it then jumped off and over the pointless wall, only to land unharmed on the other side.
Really, that was about all i could take.
So the conclusive damge?
Graphics-3
The fact i had to just assume the guy was the monster says it all really, it should be pretty clear cut but the quality was so dirt poor i would have thought it was just an ill white guy if i didn't know what the game was.
And the people youre being chased by? The civilians looked like peasant militia with outfits and everything, and there were random soldiers with rifles randomly thrown in, what theyre doing sporadicly strewn around a university is beyond me.
Sound-3
I was plesently surprised the tune changed when i went fom the title menu to the gameplay, but then even that began to wear on my nerves.
Apart from music its sadly lacking, you get the worst impression of a breaking pot when they chuck it out the windows, im serious, i dont know what it sounds like, maybe somones stomach when nature calls.
You get a sound when you brandish your hittin' stick although that is the usuel rubbish cliche woosh.
And the enemy dont make any noises, the soldiers make a tap noise when they stab you with there sword, beyond that...
Addictiveness-1
Those of you who are exceptionally perceptive may have seen this one coming, i never found this particularly fun, i kept playing in order to actually gain some progression but the sheerm ridiculous nature of the game and the whole never ending enemy kinda got on my nerves, im not a massive fan of platformers but iv played some worthy of the title good or even decent, this however, is not one of them.
Story-1
Using the word story to describe this game is a gross ,isuse of the english language, seriously, you get droped in at the deepend with this one, no explanation of whats happned or what youre meant to do. It could at least hae explained how you end up walking around with an angry mob in every doorway.
Depth-3
This game could have 115 levels for all i know, what i do know is none of them will get much better and its doubtfull any make up for the frankly pitifull start.
Difficulty-8
Wow, the first large rating and its not a good thing, The frankly lousy controls and the fact the enemy just keep coming was a major put off and trying to work your way up and along ledges was made prtty difficult by the constant barage of enemys, and not the, oh great, a challenge, sort of difficult, more the, damnit man, what where they thinking whn they made this kind of difficult.
All this culminates to a fairely lousy rating.
OVERALL-5.1
I would reserve 1 for a truely godawfull game that bugs and dosent work, as far as im concerned, 5 is a pretty big fail, the game works fine and is consistant, its just a shame its consistantly lame.
I would predict quite a few people would completely disagree with me so by all means, have a shot, just dont expect a miracle because apparently they ran dry after our monster friend was created...
Graphics
3 Sound
3 Addictive
1 Depth
3 Story
1 Difficulty
8
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