Mostly games based off of movies IE Ghostbusters on NES or Rambo part 2 on NES, even though Rambo III was good on Genesis. Anyway Gremlins didn't turn out to be such a bad movie based game after all, it's like it's not even a movie based game, and more of a NES game. Gremlins 2 on NES, but wait where's Gremlins 1? Was the first one on the Atari 2600? So if that were to be they would have switched consoles. It's kind of like the Goonies 2 where America didn't get the first Goonies game, except Goonies 1 was in Japan, unlike Gremlins 2 on NES where as the first one is on the Atari 2600. Anyway onto the actual Gremlins 2 game. The menu screen is pretty much just the company that made it (SunSoft) shows the date of when the game was made, a Start option and a Password option to music, pretty much like many other old game menus. The intro starts off with Gizmo in a cage, then Gizmo's owner (Billy Peltzer) unlocks Gizmo out of his cage, so Gizmo can do all of the work. But if you didn't watch Gremlins 2 (Or Gremlins in general) you wouldn't know who had just unlocked Gizmo from his cage, and or why Gizmo was in a cage, or WHO Gizmo even was. On the first stage you start off walking in one direction (Forward) you have such enemies to fight like Tomato's, Bats, and Rats. With your only weapon being Tomato's. You have such pick ups as Silver Balls, a Explosive that looks like a Magnifying Glass, and a Pogo Stick (Which counts as invincibility). You must avoid dropping into the pit, or jumping/walking into the spikes. You will also find doors scattered in each level where you can buy stuff. The whole objective of the first stage would be to find an elevator, to advance to Stage 1-2. Once you get to Stage 1-2 you'll encounter a new enemy which seems to infest Stage 1-2 right when you get to the second left corner. It's a spider, that spits it's poison at you, but if you kill it, it will multiply into two fast spider babies, that will try to come at you trying to hurt you. Right when you find the new weapon (Which is a torch), you see a cutscene of a faucet dripping water, with Gizmo (Supposably screaming) Which when you've seen the little balls popping out of Gizmo, you know it's bad because they're the Gremlins! What'll Gizmo do! He can't simply kill over 100 Gremlins by himself! Which brings me back to the intro, why did Billy just let Gizmo go off and fight these enemies? With tomato's? Well poor Gizmo gets thrown into a local air vent by the newly born Gremlins, meaning you have to find a way out of the vent. By starting Stage 2-1 you must find your way out of the vent to kill the Gremlins once and for all, with your torch. Here you must fight Bats, Rats, even the poison spitting Spiders have come back to try and kill you, and Moving Bombs, you must also avoid the spike balls that go back and forth from vent wall to vent wall, sometimes pits (Why's there pits in a vent I do not know.), Spikes, and the electric lines. Here you've got to have fast reflexes otherwise you may just get hit by the spike ball, into the electric line, or get hit by the spike ball and fall into the pit. When you go past the first corner and go to the right, you'll see a darkened out person, right when you get close, he runs away. Could it be a Gremlin? Could it be a Human? Right after you find your way out of the vents you find yourself in some underground basement place of some sort. But this is where you can finally kill some evil Gremlins, such as flying Gremlins, fire breathing Gremlins, jumping Gremlins, and skateboarding Gremlins that throw explosives at you. You'll also have to avoid Spikes, Pits, and Spike Balls. The first fire Gremlin is about the hardest one to get (If you don't have a balloon) if you don't have a balloon you gotta take 1-9 hits since you have to get on the spike platform to the right, once you get to the other side you can finally kill the first fire breathing Gremlin. Right after you've advanced to the next stage you fight your first boss, he's pretty easy just avoid his jumps at you and his clawing, you'll then get a paperclip as a weapon (Why take paperclips and not keep the torch is beyond me, I mean yes the torch has a shorter shooting range but fire's more effective) . You also don't get a cutscene (Which is kind of lousy ;_ Anyway here on Stage 3-1 you'll be fighting Gremlins in the studio (Just like the movie) except they put a few more stages (Like the kitchen, Cemetery, etc) to make the stage longer. Anyway you'll have to fight against Hands that come out of the ground that throw things at you, flying Gremlins, jumping Gremlins, Green Gremlins that throw pineapples at you, and Bats (But these are bigger bats). You'll have to avoid Spikes, Spike Balls (Which are worse here due to them going round and round and round in circles), and Spikes that blow up. Stage 3-2 is like Studio part 2, but with different enemies such as Flying Gremlins, Jumping Gremlins, Bats, and Normal Gremlins that just run at you. You'll be avoiding Drills, Spike Balls, Electric Lines, and Lava. The second boss is the Electric Gremlin. He's actually easier then the first one if you stand farther away from him and just unload paperclips on him. Your third weapon is the bow like when Gizmo was pretending to be Rambo in the movie. Billy then comes in to capture the Electric Gremlin in the phone, which he should be helping you more then just appearing to capture the Electric Gremlin. Enemies in 4-1 are Flying Gremlins, Hurricane Grem- actually I just end this with the ending since this review is getting a little longer then needed. A Giant Spider Gremlin comes out of nowhere, meaning you have to kill it, with your trusty bow! The ending cutscene goes on, along with happy music. Does this mean the Gremlins get to live in peace and harmony? Erm, what's Billy doing? They don't get to live in peace and harmony after all? Nope, instead Billy unleashes the power of the Electric Gremlin on them melting every single one to happy NES music... That's kind of sick and twisted... But anyway on with the ratings. Gameplay: The Gameplay is quite good, pretty much no glitches occur. 10/10 Controls: Pretty easy to get used to and play. 10/10 Sound: It has new NES noises and songs, and sounds actually pretty good. 9/10 Graphics: This is another game where it had MINDBLOWING graphics at the time and brings nostalgia. The characters can also move quite good. 10/10 Replay Value: This is one of those games you play once, and play after weeks to get more enjoyment out of it. 7/10 Final Score: 36
No offense, but this was more like a walk through than a review. Even if I'm never going to play a game, I don't want to know how it ends. There may have been someone that would've wanted to play it, but now won't because of the ending spoiler. Nice attempt though. To see what an Epic review is, just check out anything by, 9NineBreaker9. He is the local game review guru.
the score is 46 not 36, and nice review by the way, but i agree with apophos. It's not supposed to be a walkthrough.
Erm, yeah. I guess I'm the 'local game review guru' or something to that nature... and, if that really is the case, I guess I have the lovely liberties of offering up some lovely advice, which may or may not be lovely. Or disheartening. Or harsh. Though it's more likely than not going to be critical but for the benefit of the reader. Firstly - pictures. Way too many of them. It's nice to include pictures to prove a point, such as showing readers the graphics or a humorous glitch, but including too many ultimately detracts from the bulk of the review, the actual text, as it is the text that conveys the tone of the review, be it negative or positive. I took some flak from another site for a review (Fable II) that had too many pictures - you have to remember that not everyone can view them well, either due to a poor Internet connection, their owning an old computer, or their resolution being set to a point where pictures that might normally be fine on your computer appear way too large and ultimately not viewable, which very well could be the case, as RomUlation is an extremely global community with notable users ranging from the US to the UK to Malaysia. Remember - one of the reasons that Starcraft and otherwise "low end" MMOs are popular is that they can be run by everyone, particularly those in Korea that are infamous for literally gaming themselves to death on computers that might otherwise be considered "low-end". ... and, yes, I've been criminal in having too large pictures, but you'd be surprised how hard it is to find good ones. And this review doesn't have any pictures that are too large, but it's nice to keep for future references. Secondly - the score. Check the review guidelines, as there are predetermined categories that you must grade the game by, those being Presentation (which I've interpreted as a conglomeration of menus, design, and visual aspects that are not immediately correlated with graphics), Sound (voice acting, sound effects, and background music), Graphics (both the sheer quality of the visuals and the aesthetic or design elements), Gameplay (the combined controls, story, and gameplay mechanic score that should be the largest, most important factor into the score) and Lasting Appeal (the replay value, length, and impact of the game). Each of these categories contains 10 points, making the whole/total score out of 50 points. ... I feel almost like a mod in saying all of this. HEAR ME AND OBEY (if you want to)! Thirdly - the actual definition of a review. Again, yours is more of a walkthrough than anything that comments upon the apparent quality of the game than an actual review wherein you examine each element of the game and critique it. While walkthroughs are good things to have, masquerading them as a review only serves to spoil the game for those who wanted to play it - what if I were to do a similar thing with, say, Fable II or Fallout 3? I would ruin the plot, and, in RPGs, the plot is most sentential part of the game, alienating people from it and causing them to not be able to play it correctly, as the entire backbone of the game has been shattered, and, as any currently functioning human knows, a fractured or otherwise shattered backbone kind of screws up your system. The largest problem this "review" has is that it is not actually a review - should you change this to be less of a walkthrough and more of a detailed look at why this game pwns or phails, I could see you becoming a great reviewer. Until then - unimpressed apparently official-unofficial 'local game review guru' is unimpressed, though he does see room for improvement. ... OKAY. That's ENTIRELY too much effort for one post. I get carried away way too damn easily. Half of this feels more like a random rant than actual criticism. But - all well. That was still fun. And my points, however vague and filled with nonsensical, unnecessary information, still stand. TLR version - cut down pictures, fix your scores, and make this more of an actual "review" and less of a "walkthrough".
The only time you can post alot of photos on a review I think, is when your review is about a game that was ROM hacked, usually to translate the game's language into something else, like English from Japanese. To compare how good or bad the translation was, or so you can let people know how odd or non-tradition the game is, & believe me alot of Japanese RPGs have elements that are not exactly Final Fantasy-esque. But the bad thing about posting alot of photos to let people know how a game works is it could choke people's connections making loading the review page a major pain. My last review is testament to that
@9NineBreaker9: I was just trying to give you the respect you deserve. I was originally going to say "Game review God", but changed my mind. In all honesty though, I don't think that I have ever read nicer reviews from anyone. The kudos are simply showing respect.
WARNING: CONTAINS GRATUITOUS AMOUNS OF AWESOME Right - to reiterate or to expand upon the picture idea, try to include them ONLY for when a point can't be made easily in text format. Or when the picture is really, really funny. Kinda like: See, even Stephen Colbert knows that Ret Pallies are next to useless. But, then again, he knows everything. ... for a funny comment on World of Warcraft's talent points. Or something like that - using humor to bring up a review is a fantastic technique (see: Zero Punctuation), and a timely picture can separate a sea of text. Centering the picture also allows it to be viewed easier (as far as I can tell, that's what knowledge I've gleaned and I haven't been told off/otherwise for doing so). $20 bucks says that your eyes skipped right over the first sentence and looked at the picture. That's another effect - including pictures can draw the reader away from the text, and including too many allows the reader to just look at the pretty pictures and not the meat of the entire review. Lolmagawd - I can has fan? Still - thanks XD
lol - I dunno, I just grabbed the first funny picture I could think of, and that one popped into my head. I haven't played with enough of them to see just how strong they are(n't), and whenever I do play in a group with one, my computer promptly dies, so I can't see exactly how much damage they contribute (and most pallies at my level are shoehorned into tanking, as I am into healing as a Shaman). That and I'm not at the endgame, nor will I ever be, so I'mma not see that any time soon. But... um... let's see... ...on topic... on topic... on... topic... Erm, Gremlins be trippin' balls...?
