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Article #6386Re: FADE TO BLACK - close, but no cigar (Counterpoint)
From: aleo... Andrew Leonard
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 00:00
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Me <Me> wrote: >>> >>It's good that they decided to write a new engine on the whole Flashback >>theme. However, what made OOTW and Flashback so popular was that it was >>basically a 2 dimension platform game with problem solving twists and lots of >>neat cutscenes, along with great action. The move to 3-D was obviously the >>next step but it just doesn't have the same feel or thrill that OOTW and >>Flashback gave me when I first played it on my Amiga. >I really like FTB, but I too miss the old side view. Flashback and >Prince of Persia were some of my favorite game. Oh well, I hope those >games are not gone forever. As long as companies continue to create innovative (yet made on the model of games of old) games such as Abuse and Apogee's Realms of Chaos, both sidescrollers, the art of the adventure side-scroller (NOT including mario platforms) will never die. Anyone here think that Abuse = Metroid + Contra?
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