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Article #697678Re: What Have You Been Playing... in MARCH 2017?
From: Toby Newman
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 08:22
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 08:22
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On 2017-04-02, Ross Ridge <rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: >>Spalls Hurgenson <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>Replaying the games, I found the levels a mixed bunch. Some of them >>were as dull and endless as I remembered - especially the later ones >>in the ruined Jedi temple - and far too reliant on platforming puzzles >>(over bottomless pits, naturally) to be fun. Others, however, >>adequately captured the scale and feel of the movies well enough, >>especially considering the limitations of the technology of the day. > > I really like the verticality of the Jedi Knights, few games, before > or since, bother to make use of that third dimension. Metroid Prime springs to mind. -- -Toby Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters.
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