This game is a puzzle adventure platformer in which you got to help Dorke (and Ymp) to make some errands for your evil Master Wizard in exchange of him training you and teaching you his magic spells.
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Playing Through My Evercade Collection Part 9: Piko Interactive Collection 1
This is such a strange game and it being a thing is also just a piece of utter confusion bait too. So essentially this was a SNES game made in the early 90s by a Swedish used-media chain called 'Norse' using unlicensed SNES development tools. Think if CEX developed a game and thats what we basically have here. It was abandoned half-finished after they failed to find a publisher.
Then it was picked up many years later by Piko interactive who worked on it for over a year to make physical carts of it as well as release it digitally. Its a rather baffling pickup from Piko and its mindblowing that they thought it was worth finishing up in such a state.
As a game though? Eh. Its history is a lot more interesting than the actual game itself, at its core its a pretty basic platformer with 'meh' graphics, slightly heavy jumping and HOLY MOTHER OF GOD why are there so many levels. Seriously, look up a longplay of this game, it takes over six hours to complete, the store page on steam bragging of a ten hour gameplay time.
To the game's credit its nice to actually have a proper ledge grab in a SNES-era platformer but its all just a bit too bland and generic to really warrant talking about aside from the game's weird history and the idea that it could take you over ten hours to complete and I have no intention of ever playing this for two hours, let alone ten thanks.
This is such a strange game and it being a thing is also just a piece of utter confusion bait too. So essentially this was a SNES game made in the early 90s by a Swedish used-media chain called 'Norse' using unlicensed SNES development tools. Think if CEX developed a game and thats what we basically have here. It was abandoned half-finished after they failed to find a publisher.
Then it was picked up many years later by Piko interactive who worked on it for over a year to make physical carts of it as well as release it digitally. Its a rather baffling pickup from Piko and its mindblowing that they thought it was worth finishing up in such a state.
As a game though? Eh. Its history is a lot more interesting than the actual game itself, at its core its a pretty basic platformer with 'meh' graphics, slightly heavy jumping and HOLY MOTHER OF GOD why are there so many levels. Seriously, look up a longplay of this game, it takes over six hours to complete, the store page on steam bragging of a ten hour gameplay time.
To the game's credit its nice to actually have a proper ledge grab in a SNES-era platformer but its all just a bit too bland and generic to really warrant talking about aside from the game's weird history and the idea that it could take you over ten hours to complete and I have no intention of ever playing this for two hours, let alone ten thanks.