Umihara Kawase

Перед нами отличный порт игры-легенды с Super Nintendo. Нет, это не эмулятор с ромом. Игра была создана в 1994 году на полном интузиазме - програмистом Кийоши Сакай (Ape Escape) и иллюстратором Тошинобу Кондо (Code of Princess). В те годы, "Umihara Kawase" являлась одним из лучших примеров инди-игры и была хитом на территории Японии. Сюрреалистичная атмосфера, эстетика позднего Shōwa, запоминающийся саундтрек, оригинальный сэттинг и необычные гейм-дизайнерские решения. Берите по скидке всю трилогию сразу. Ценник у неё смешной.

I don't even know why I initially bought this game. I guess I was attracted to the retro charm and music from watching someone else player it that I thought I'd give it a go. Turns out it's just not for me. I don't mind the gameplay and thought it was pretty interesting and fun up to a certain point. I soon realised it features what I counted were potentially 54 levels that you have to beat in one session back to back with limited lives and each stage gives you a 4 minute timer to beat it. It features randomly spawning enemies that can literally spawn just as you're jumping to an area and instant kill you feeling very cheap, and the spawns are very sporadic and chaotic. It quickly becomes extremely tedious and I just don't have the patience for it, unfortunately. It's otherwise a very charming platformer, but the lack of save states and what I assume no check points once you lose all lives, just makes it not fun for me. I would not recommend this game unless you're an extremely avid platform player and don't mind repetitiveness.

Wonderful title I'm still picking through but the difficulty is almost entirely artificial in the last few stages. Enemy spawn rates go up tenfold making any and all careful slow platforming impossible without getting absolutely raped.