Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six [NES]

Lord, this shit is awful. It looks and sounds awful, and coming out in '92, this is pretty inexcusable. Everybody else who put out games at this time knew how to push the system to its limit in terms of graphics and sound (seven years of developing games on a system can do that). Of course, it was crapped out by LJN, the geniuses behind the NES X-Men, so what can you expect.

And it controls horribly as well. It's freaking Spider-Man. If you're going to include his ability to climb walls, you better make him able to climb anywhere, yet here one can only climb on the outside of buildings. What? And who decided that Peter's main attack should be a jump-kick? A hard to aim jump-kick at that. You can attack with punches too, but they're slow and hard to pull off, so why bother? So is swinging around on webs, which is also hard to aim, so, again, why bother? Fuck this game.

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