hmmm this has been sitting sealed in the game shop around the corner from my apartment in taiwan and i've been contemplating a purchase for ages. this little post of yours is compelling me to A) buy the damn thing and B) avoid it like a 7/11 clerk with a pulsating crotch in equal measure. i'm guessing that since the game is in japanese (which i can't speak) i should skip it. my little black consumerist heart is shriveling up at the thought.
oh and great site by the way! i don't get a lot of time to post but i read every new entry. keep up the great work
You've summed the game up perfectly. I've owned this, got mad at it, sold it, re-bought it years later because of the charming visuals, got mad at it again and sold it again, and now I kind of want it back again even though I know it'll drive me insane again. XD
This game has been known as one of the hardest games on the Dreamcast.
I have NOT gotten a copy of it yet.
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
[Image] What a week it's been eh? Russel Brand (cock) and Jonathan Ross (arsehole) drown in a pool of their own turgid smugness, Hallow e'en comes and goes without even a hint of Armageddon/unleashing of the Legions of Hell (dammit), and the Dreamcast Junkyard gets a long overdue makeover (awesome). It's been emotional, people. Not, however, as 'emotional' as I've been in recent days. And by emotional, I - of course - mean 'synapse-endangeringly furious.' Why so? Three words:
1) Super 2) Magnetic 3) Neo
You know that old adage about the Devil disguising himself as something nice in order to appear more enticing? Well, meet the Devil. In the form of this little cunt:
[Image] Yes, I bought Super Magnetic Neo off eBay for the princely sum of £3.00 or thereabouts, and was expecting a colourful yet slightly childish romp through candy-cane worlds populated by jelly babies. And to a certain degree, I was right. You see, visually, Super Magnetic Neo is like an uber acid trip, helped on it's way by a couple of lines of coke, a bottle of JD and a punnet of magic mushrooms. You play as the titular Neo - a smurf-hued robot with a magnet for a bonce. An evil baddie bloke has taken over the world, or something, and populated it with similarly evil robots (although, I don't remember the Terminator just mincing backwards and forwards, minding his own business like the evil robots do here) and it's up to you to smash them to bits and restore order.
[Image] [Image] However, to accomplish your mission, you must utilise the aforementioned cranial magnet. How? Well, it has the ability to create positive and negative polarity fields and by creating these fields in certain places you can propel yourself off platforms, grab swinging ropes and, obviously, destroy baddies. And by reading that, and looking at the amazing graphics in the poor quality screen shots here, you be forgiven for thinking that Super Magnetic Neo was a platform fan's wet dream. Which it would be, was it not for the immense difficulty level. A wolf in sheep's clothing if ever there was one. And just to nail it in even further, Super Magnetic Neo makes MDK 2 seem like a walk in the park. [Image]Everywhere you turn there are pits and baddies that kill you instantly with the slightest touch, and in some areas you must jump from swinging rope to swinging rope to platform to platform to swinging rope...where the polarities change and you have to get the right one...or it's game over. Hair tearingly annoying? You bet your ass. [Image] Be afraid. Be very afraid...
As such, I haven't actually got past the second world at the time of writing this guff. However, seeing as the graphics are so mind-bendingly good and the story so completely off the wall, I'm prepared to stick my neck out and recommend this to neurotics, people with pace-makers and inmates of high-security medical wards only. Have fun!
"Super Magnetic Aaaargh!"
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hmmm this has been sitting sealed in the game shop around the corner from my apartment in taiwan and i've been contemplating a purchase for ages.
this little post of yours is compelling me to A) buy the damn thing and B) avoid it like a 7/11 clerk with a pulsating crotch in equal measure.
i'm guessing that since the game is in japanese (which i can't speak) i should skip it. my little black consumerist heart is shriveling up at the thought.
oh and great site by the way!
i don't get a lot of time to post but i read every new entry. keep up the great work
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
You've summed the game up perfectly. I've owned this, got mad at it, sold it, re-bought it years later because of the charming visuals, got mad at it again and sold it again, and now I kind of want it back again even though I know it'll drive me insane again. XD
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
This game has been known as one of the hardest games on the Dreamcast.
I have NOT gotten a copy of it yet.
Tuesday, November 04, 2008