With much of the last few weeks spent traversing the world of Lord British, I can honestly say that I wont miss it much. Exodus was far to undirected for my tastes, and while Quest of the Avatar had many more interesting ideas it ultimately had many more flaws.
I didnt have high hopes for Warriors of Destiny, but I did expect it to follow the trend and improve slightly upon Quest of the Avatar. Within the first several minutes of playing it was quite obvious that wouldnt be the case. It basically took everything I disliked about the first two games and upped the ante with some terrible controls. Yes thats right, RPGs can apparently have bad controls.
It was painfully obvious that this game was meant to be played on a PC that the developers either had trouble porting it over or were just plain lazy. Just walking around is slow and unresponsive. Pulling out your cursor to interact with the world is equally as frustrating and the very shallow inventory, both active and inactive, are constantly agonizing. The game also has a very annoying overworld theme playing continuously that makes the Hydlide soundtrack worth shelling out $100 for.
I do have one good thing say about it though. NO MOONGATE TRAVEL, WOOHOOO!!!!!! (well you have to twice to get to a shrine, but you dont need to use them to go from town to town like in the previous two titles). This isnt really a bonus for the game, its just a bonus in comparison to the previous two.
To sharpen my senses after losing many hours to these RPGs I decided to pop in something I've been wanting to play for a couple years now, but didnt have a copy until recently. Darkwing Duck! Cant go wrong with a Capcom/Disney titles on the NES right?
It was a solid game, but I honestly thought I'd enjoy it much more than I did. The shooting was fairly slow and occasionally I had issue with the jump mechanic and the hit recovery. Not a bad game though just didnt hit the spot like I always though it would.
Future Plans - I'm slightly RPG'd out at the moment so I'm going to take a brief break from the genre and play some faster moving games. I was able to trade for Bucky O'Hare not to long ago and that has been a BIG want for a long time so I'm looking forward to checking that one out. Also gonna try out Kick Master and King's Knight in the near future.
I've been having trouble getting my Ultima videos to upload to youtube as they keep failing in the processing stage. I'll give them each another try, but if it doesnt work I suppose I'll have to chop them in half to reduce the size and see if I cant upload them in 2 or more parts.....groan.
