The Guardian Legend: Most underrated NES game ever
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Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
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Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
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Golgo 13 Top Secret Episode - A game that was years ahead of its time. Mature themes, an adult story, varied game play and a high body count, it was a mature game at a time that games were still considered a pastime for kids only.
Section Z - This game is for the truly hardcore. A skill based shooter so hard that it will make your throw your controller, then pick it up to re try.
Crystalis - it borrows heavily from the first Legend of Zelda. While its not as original or innovative, in many ways its a more complete, more enjoyable adventure, and that is saying allot.
I LOVED Crystalis. Another fantastic, overlooked game. I sense a trend here.
Feel old yet?
I love that game. Every time I go into the used dame store around here its thirty dollar price tags taunts my existence.
Man those were some good times. Almost want to fire up an emulator now.
Also, I feel sad that I had to google the name
Atari was real!
I remember renting games at video stores when I was little! I was always angry because my parents wouldn't let me go in the little room with the swinging saloon style doors on it. They also wouldn't tell me why for a long time, which made me want to go in there even more.
oh, to be young again.
I never played this game. Very cool perspective though. Did it age well?
One of my favorite game on NES and unique music.
Basically, take most of the gameplay you know about Adventure island and throw a majority of it out the window. Then add in exploration, magic, and of course some swords and armor with some rather fine platforming.
And, of course, you can find in game versions of your old Adventure Island classic weapons in there too.
I don't know much about how well it was received. I'd imagine most people barely paid any attention to it at all, and the gameplay is so incredibly far removed from the rest of the series that it probably didn't find too much of a home for the fans the series had. It's a shame, since there's a lot of fun to be had with it.
ADDENDUM: Adventure Island 4 seems to have messed around with the gameplay elements found here as well, though that's for the NES, and isn't quite so far removed from the series as this one is.
I was a huge RPG fan back in the day, sadly I sold a lot of my collection. I am slowly trying to build it back up again. While I was too young to really be able to get my hands on any games for the NES that my dad didn't want to play as well, I did play all all the Dragon Warriors, and Final Fantasy.
But as for my favorite SNES game, I can't even remember the name of it. All I remember was that it was a top down like Zelda, but it had a stupid amount of puzzles in it, and you collected sprites that followed you around and helped you in battle. I always thought the name was Puzzle Quest, or something like that but through all my research I never found an SNES game by that name. I am still looking though, I am only really missing that and Lufia games for my SNES collection.
As for your "puzzle quest" game, I've played quite a few SNES RPGs and yet I'm not sure. You can start by going through this list and see if anything jumps out at you. If not, consider that it may have not even been a SNES game and was actually a Genesis or even a Gameboy Advance game, and thus expand your search. Yes, unlikely you remembered wrong, but the fact you can't find it yet leads me to this thought, and the GBA is basically a portable SNES so the graphics are very similar.
Good luck in your hunt, and be sure to report back if you do find it. I'm intrigued to try this game.