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Superheroing has never been an easy task, risking life
and limb to save the Earth, Universe -- whatever. In
this case it's the evil forces of Kerllis IX which are
wreaking havoc throughout the land and, as usual, it's
up to you, an intergalactic mega hero, to save the day.
The force who call themselves the Boolalgrops, have
invaded an alien planet and are causing vast amounts
of wanton destruction. The game starts with you abandoned
on that same alien planet with a veritable armoury of
swords in your possession. However, merely killing the
aliens won't win the war fully, there will still be
their eminent leader to deal with -- the mighty Alien
Presence.
A
quest has been devised that will lead to the total annihilation
of the leader. Your first task is to retrieve the seven
Daggers of Power which will open the portal into the
very heart ot this strange world. Each dagger must be
collected individually from the far left-hand side of
the scrolling playing area and then carefully carried
to the portal to the far right-hand side of the playing
area.
Once
you have collected your first dagger the aliens come
out in force to try and stop you, the first foul batch
taking the form of canisters which slowly float from
the bottom to the top of the screen. However, if you
approach them and fail to blast them in time, they home
in on you and unless some nifty joystick-handling is
employed you are doomed to failure. Luckily, you have
been given six reincarnation spells to play with.
Having
put one dagger through the portal you must then head
back over hazardous terrain to the collection point.
On some occasions you will fly behind buildings, making
it near impossible to keep track of your actions. There
are also some swamps which drown you if you land on
them. Having deposited all seven daggers in the mystical
portal, it will open and, at last, you can fly through.
In
the second part of the game you need to locate five
pieces of garlic and five crosses which have been scattered
over the land. Played on a wrap-round scrolling playing
area, your sensors must be carefully monitored as the
garlic and crosses are invisible. On finding an object,
the border changes colour and a code F flashes up to
inform you of your discovery. Once all ten objects have
been collected, you are transported to the mighty Alien
Presence. His guardians are indestructible, but with
a good shot it is just possible to kill him so his evil
wrath may never return again.
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I
didn't quite know what to make of this to begin
with, so I persevered with some alien blasting
and portal opening and now I know that this game
has serious problems which render it nearly unplayable.
Main fault number one in that the tasks are so
laborious, once you've returned one dagger then
you have to go repeat the same action six more
times. The next task isn't much fun either, in
fact don't touch this with a barge pole, it's
one to be well avoided.
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Presentation
55%
Fairly straightforward.
Graphics
42%
Lacking in quality and colour.
Sound
66%
Good title screen tune but little
else.
Hookability
35%
Laborious and uninteresting from
the outset.
Lastability
21%
Difficult and challenging, but
not very absorbing or varied.
Value
For Money 33%
Cheap, but three quid is still
too much for so little.
Overall
27%
Yet another big disappointment
from Bug Byte.
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Htmlized
by Dimitris
Kiminas (28 Feb 2010)
In this review we can see the difficulties the reviewers
faced to take screenshots from a game that had no pause
mode. They took the first screenshot when the player
lost a life, as the scrolling of the background pauses
momentarily at that moment, but this had the disadvantage
of not showing the player sprite. They took the second
screenshot after using a cartridge to freeze the screen,
but this had the disadvantage of corrupting the lower
part of the screen as you can see below. In the above
review I replaced the second image with the corresponding
non-corrupted image.
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