Review GigaDeathNullGolem 2/5 · May 2, 2020
Not Recommended.
I discovered this game through steam admittedly. Apparently the wonderful folks who brought us the infamous night trap kept the footage from their FMV works and have overhauled them for remakes. I'd never heard of this game as I didnt have the CD based systems, but I'd been looking to play light gun games because i found a way to …
I discovered this game through steam admittedly. Apparently the wonderful folks who brought us the infamous night trap kept the footage from their FMV works and have overhauled them for remakes. I'd never heard of this game as I didnt have the CD based systems, but I'd been looking to play light gun games because i found a way to play them on PC and figured this would be short so why not check out a likely horrible game on a matching less than ideal system 3DO!
The game is a side scrolling light gun shooting game of sorts, but the enemies just come at you in a straight line and you mow them down with your automatic rifle in sequential order. It's not really a refelex game. The trick is the timing as you can fire more shots without pause if you get the rhythm right. There arent many maps and each one is maybe a whole minute and a half to 2 minutes long. the enemy patterns do not change and ther is no variety. the only real strong point is... if you guessed the B-movie acting, you guessed right.
Full Ganja Jacket. Pump some soul into their wicked hearts, Trigger-Man
I wont spoil what little fun there is to be had in this, but the videos in this are about as silly as you'd expect. In the end this game did have one thing going for it which caught my eye, after you complete the initial game sequence it opens up in a kind of 'adventure mode' where you can not only pick and choose various kinds of missions on the map screen
it also features (get ready) a fully interactive Encarta 95 style multimedia encyclopedia, for all 15 of the games lore items! WHOA.
This island will shape you into a vodoo loremaster in no time mon!
But the fact the game had that kind of background concept and could have actually been a fantastic adventure game with shooting and cutscenes. it falls short because the game play in it is really poor.
Winning this game is something I couldnt pull off, you actually have to hoard ammo types of increasing strength and you will fall back to your weaker ones when they deplete. This is a pretty boring chore but playing the game is in fact a resource management thing and its actually a bit reminiscent of survival horror genre before those games even came out.
Corpse Killer's mail problem to sink it from lackluster luekworm to cold turkey is the end sequence which is too damn hard for stupid reasons. Even with full stocked health and ammo, you have to actually apparently kill a certain unknown amount of zombies before they reach you or you have to basically repeat the whole damn game over again until you do it right, after a few tries i gave up.
This game isn't good but it did have some nice original genre blending thoughts with the adventure and surival horror aspects for something so early. too bad its poorly executed, it isnt bad to play with a light gun though (i used a wiimote using a guide to connect it to my PC) but gets old after a while because there is very little variety after you play each of the few levels once. it would be total crap with a controller which many of the versions limit you to. In addition the steam version has a bunch of complicated mechanics which would surely make it harder.