Status internpepper Nov 14, 2020
I rented this back in the day, and while I remember close to nothing about it, I remember enjoying the gameplay.
Pandemonium! (1996)
Legacy Mobile Device · N-Gage · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation · PlayStation 3 · PlayStation Portable · PlayStation Vita · Sega Saturn · iOS
3.25 from 154 ratings
743 members have it in their collection · 4 playing now · 384 backlogged · 35 wish listed
How long? Main story 4h (from 1 logged playthrough)
Pandemonium features 2 playable characters: Fargus, a joker, and Nikki, who unwittingly casts a spell that destroys the town. The goal of the game is to reach the Wishing Engine, where they can wish the town back to normal.
For each level, the player can choose which character to be. Each has a special move - Fargus can deliver a …
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Pandemonium features 2 playable characters: Fargus, a joker, and Nikki, who unwittingly casts a spell that destroys the town. The goal of the game is to reach the Wishing Engine, where they can wish the town back to normal.
For each level, the player can choose which character to be. Each has a special move - Fargus can deliver a special spinning attack, and Nikki can double jump. The game consists of a great variety of unique gameplay objects, such as watermelons, clouds, spider webs and logs.
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Details
- Developers
- Toys for Bob
- Publishers
- BMG Interactive, Bandai, Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Interactive, Electronic Arts, Sega Europe, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Square Enix
- Genres
- Platform
- Themes
- Action
- Series
- Pandemonium
- Steam
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Release dates
- Nov 05, 1996 (North_America) PlayStation
- Dec 06, 1996 (Europe) PlayStation
- Feb 28, 1997 (Japan) PlayStation
- Apr 24, 1997 (North_America) Sega Saturn
- Apr 25, 1997 (Japan) Sega Saturn
- Jun 12, 1997 (Europe) Sega Saturn
- Jun 30, 1997 (North_America) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- 1997 (Europe) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Oct 06, 2003 (North_America) N-Gage
- Oct 07, 2003 (Europe) N-Gage
- Sep 12, 2007 (Worldwide) Legacy Mobile Device
- Apr 24, 2009 (Worldwide) iOS
- Oct 08, 2009 (Worldwide) PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable
- Jun 05, 2012 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
Rating distribution
5 stars
13
4 stars
44
3 stars
68
2 stars
26
1 star
3
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Review Reset_Tears 2/5 · Jul 10, 2020
Pandemonium Hopped so Klonoa Could Run
I played the Japanese release of this one on the Sega Saturn -- in Japan it was gloriously titled Magical Hoppers, and featured goofy anime characters instead of CG cartoon ReBoot rejects Court Jester and Punk Girl. Otherwise the game's the same.
In Magical Hoppers your goal in life is to hop, hop, hop, hop, hop all day. It's what …
I played the Japanese release of this one on the Sega Saturn -- in Japan it was gloriously titled Magical Hoppers, and featured goofy anime characters instead of CG cartoon ReBoot rejects Court Jester and Punk Girl. Otherwise the game's the same.
In Magical Hoppers your goal in life is to hop, hop, hop, hop, hop all day. It's what we in the biz call a 2.5D platformer, meaning it's a 2D platformer that uses 3D graphics. And though you're always pressing left and right for basic movement, the character on-screen may at times move up and down paths in different 3D directions. I think this is fine -- Magical Hoppers' shortcomings lie in its bland presentation, slippery controls, and poor level design. You move about surprisingly fast in this game, but you also die in just two hits -- and the game is lenient for the enemies, not for you. Plenty of times where I jump on an enemy, but it's not quite at the exact spot you need to land on an enemy to kill it -- and so I get hurt (and die). The floaty physics and the difficulty of judging platform jumping challenges with 3D models for this game actually reminds me a lot of Donkey Kong Country, so maybe fans of that will dig Pandemonium more than me.
As luck would have it, this is an old game, and so there are cheat codes you can use to make things easier. But even with some of the game's frustrations dampened, I didn't find much to enjoy. There were only a couple levels I found interesting (the lumber mill was admittedly pretty cool), animal transformation segments are underwhelming, and the music--I hate to say it--is rather grating for the most part. It's rare for me to hate on a game's music, but there are some obnoxious tunes in this one.
I should mention there are two characters you can play as, and you can choose either at the start of any level (or use a cheat to switch whenever you want -- this is the way to go). The boy has a Donkey Kong somersault attack. Meanwhile the girl can double-jump, but in a Genesis Shinobi way (meaning you have to time it right at the top of your arc). Both of these special abilities are kind of half-assed though, neither of them ever feeling all that reliable to me.
Bottom line: just play Klonoa - Door to Phantomile (PS1) instead! Probably the best game to play for this sort of 2.5D platforming, with a more memorable protagonist and more engaging gameplay mechanics.
Status NotRegret Jul 16, 2018
Early PS1 platformer ported to steam, and without even a save system to replace the password system or the ability to rebind keys.
There's nothing particularly wrong with this game, but it's so generic and unambitious the only people it's suited for are someone looking for a nostalgia trip of early 3D graphics and the music style that goes with …
Early PS1 platformer ported to steam, and without even a save system to replace the password system or the ability to rebind keys.
There's nothing particularly wrong with this game, but it's so generic and unambitious the only people it's suited for are someone looking for a nostalgia trip of early 3D graphics and the music style that goes with it, as it does spark up that charm.