Main game
2.69 average rating based on 36 ratings
Played a little NES version and could not even get past stage 1. Robocop has probably the worst control I have ever seen in a game. He starts moving extremely slowly, having to build up speed in order to walk at a normal pace. Then he has so much momentum that it feels like an ice stage in a sensible platformer that has grease on top of the ice. At least he could shoot all the time only punching when enemies were in melee range. The briefing screen was decent but I did not fully understand it. Upon reaching the end I was told that I failed to destroy enough nuke (the bottles labeled N) or arrest enough villains. Try again and didn't do any better. I at least found out that the green shirt guys needed to be touched to arrest them, not shot. Unfortunately the gun fired a 2 round burst that often killed an enemy and the guy behind him that I was not supposed to shoot. Ehhh, why was the gun not single shot? After failing it made me do an absurdly long shooting gallery bonus stage that had god awful momentum on the crosshair. What …
Played a little NES version and could not even get past stage 1. Robocop has probably the worst control I have ever seen in a game. He starts moving extremely slowly, having to build up speed in order to walk at a normal pace. Then he has so much momentum that it feels like an ice stage in a sensible platformer that has grease on top of the ice. At least he could shoot all the time only punching when enemies were in melee range. The briefing screen was decent but I did not fully understand it. Upon reaching the end I was told that I failed to destroy enough nuke (the bottles labeled N) or arrest enough villains. Try again and didn't do any better. I at least found out that the green shirt guys needed to be touched to arrest them, not shot. Unfortunately the gun fired a 2 round burst that often killed an enemy and the guy behind him that I was not supposed to shoot. Ehhh, why was the gun not single shot? After failing it made me do an absurdly long shooting gallery bonus stage that had god awful momentum on the crosshair. What the hell kind of game mechanics was this?! I could not simply move the cross hair to a target and shoot. No I first had to get it in drive and build up some speed then stop moving well before the target and hope that skidded on top of the target. It said I failed to achieve enough score and had to redo the stage, implying you could skip the stage goals by mastering the shooting gallery? I read a review that said the game only got worse in later stages and that beating stage 1 required finding a secret room. The only walkthrough didn't mention this secret room at all and I am not wasting my time combing the stage or looking up a video. One of the worst games I have ever played. It would have made more sense as a straight action platformer without stuff to collect, or allow back tracking to get the required stuff.
2.0/10
Hm hypothetically I would normally split up the Data East games and the Ocean games, butttt since they're basicallyt all brawler platformers, and really the 2 most distinct are the Amiga and Arcade versions with the rest simply being pale imitations of those 2 versions, I think it's fine just seeing it like the Harry Potter games with multiple releases on different platforms.