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The Daily Click ::. Downloads ::. Review Review: Unknown Game 3625
It took me ages to work out just how to get in to this game. Pressing the normal keys didn't seem to work to get past the title screen, Enter just pauses the game, and ESC took me to a Game Over screen with some bizarre Sonic music playing, where I could move a white square around (looks like an oversight here). Eventually I did manage to break in to the game by pressing Space from there, but it was a difficult process - and I don't think that it was me being particularly thick, either. Also, all the menu items are capitalised, and I've no idea why. Buried beneath all that, though, there is a good game here. It reminds me a little of an obscure old freeware DOS game called "Zone66" that I used to have on the Amstrad, if only because of the way it's presented. You have to shoot the orbs that run around the edge of the playfield, while collecting (or avoiding) particles being thrown at you. To make life difficult, you can only shoot left and right, and you have a limited amount of energy (for shooting) and health. It's nothing more than an arcadey retro game, and it doesn't pretend to be anything else. To liven things up a bit, though, you have a chance to upgrade your character. Every few stages, you can choose to get more health, energy or agility, all to the accompaniment of the Mystic Cave Zone music, which sounds like the theme tune from Inspector Gadget. The rest of the music comes from Sonic (as I've mentioned before), RPG Maker and possibly various other sources. Other obstacles come in to play as well - fire running across the floor, for example. The author's done a good job of keeping the game simple while also making it different enough to be entertaining. Even though most of the gameplay is running along and belting the Space bar, it's rather good fun. One minor point, though, is I've no idea what makes the file size so big - the game is about 6MB unzipped. Maybe just some misplaced use of fancy graphics.
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