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- Subject: RPG Reviews
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- Date: 31 Dec 1992 10:47 EST
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- Here are my reviews of the RPGs I have played.
- The systems I play are NES, SNES, Genesis
-
- Here is my system of rating.
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- A - great, the best
- B - good but not great
- C - average/typical
- D - bearly tolerable
- F - Hated it
-
-
- Things rated:
- Graphics - colors, size, flicker, animation, clarity, variety of monstors
- background.
- Sound - variety, enjoyability
- Manuel - clarity, descriptiveness, helpfulness, errors,
- theme/story - story flow, explanation scenes, intro of new characters
- ability to chose more than one route of progress.
- lenght of game - very long, long, medium, short, too short
- level of difficulty - hard, medium, easy
- Control during battle - control over the actions taking place during battle
- Outstanding features - explained
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- And now on with the games.
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- NES: 1 of several
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- Dragon Warrior II
-
- Graphics - D
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- Graphics are hard to see & have tons of flicker. There is no animation
- during fight scenes. Walk about animation consist of the characters feet
- and arms constantly moving even when their standing still. There is no
- background scene during fight scenes, monster pic is on a black background.
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- Sound - D
-
- there is some variety but the mario carts and metroid have better music
- than this.
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- Manuel - C
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- Gives description of characters and purpose of quest, description of
- character items and magic, color map of world included, some hints.
- This game is more for the experienced RPG player since very little help is
- given.
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- Theme/story - B
-
- the story flows reasonablly well, haven't run into many explanation scenes,
- introduced new characters well, able to pretty much explore as desired, I
- haven't been stopped from going into certain area very often but you do get
- killed if you go into areas before your characters are strong enough.
-
- Lenght of game - medium - long, I have not finished the game so its hard to
- say.
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- level of difficulty - hard
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- lots of searching, not much help/clues, can easily be killed, characters are
- weak and have very limited magic at least up to were you first have all three
- characters. If you leave the game for a while, like I did, it is very
- difficult to figure out what you were doing unless you took notes,
- which I don't.
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- Control during battle - A
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- You control who does what to whom at all times.
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- Outstanding/Unique feature - Change of color of status board when characters
- have been badly hurt or a character dies.
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- Next review - Dragon Warrior III
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