Status scoopings Dec 17, 2022
Preliminary: Wow, truly a platformer action-adventure (with puzzle elements, to boot... I hope that part doesn't scare me off tho). With a set ending! And better yet, one of the few people who managed to get to the actual end made a guide video/longplay so I will be able to manage it too!
Oh! Bahaha wait no. There are 2 …
Preliminary: Wow, truly a platformer action-adventure (with puzzle elements, to boot... I hope that part doesn't scare me off tho). With a set ending! And better yet, one of the few people who managed to get to the actual end made a guide video/longplay so I will be able to manage it too!
Oh! Bahaha wait no. There are 2 Commodore 64 Ice Palaces: one penguins jumping around (that fortunately seems to maybe have an ending too? time to do research more properly), and another that has a puzzle-esque hexagonal format for what is otherwise an action-adventure game that indeed has a set ending.
Welp, this was shaping up to be a review, but turns out this is an issue of 2 games merged into one in the database/GiantBomb. Time to do some cleaning up before we start movie/show time! (Finishing the latest His Dark Materials episode, then starting our next X-Men movie--Logan). 1985 on my backlog seems to be much shorter than 1984, thankfully, but it's quickly filling up past years and its own years from discovering more games and games I missed-argh!
To show the difference between the games, that I at first imagined were one (and the database has as one ha):
Penguin one. And then this one