A port of Parodius da!: Shinwa kara Owarai he
What A Wonderful World! The year is 1993, and the changes in world history have been astonishing, with only seven years left before the beginning of the 21st century. Earth's people have lost everything, their hopes, their dreams, their works and their money. Revolutionary things are about to happen: Young boys hide amongst the fantasy world of their computers, ignoring the rest of families. There is only Sushi or Curry to eat, the computerized refrigerator is often on strike and rumour has it that the Great Octopus is soon to arrive on Earth. This can only mean trouble. In a world, war!
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I’m really lucky I love the goofy circus music sound clip it plays when you lose a life, seeing as how often I’m going to eat shit playing this
A fun schmup with cute characters and colorful graphics. The game is brutal at times and the slowdown can be crazy at times. Good game overall.
Well I'm finally here. The 5th and final time of playing the first Parodius game. This time for the Super Famicom. As per usual, go to my Arcade review of the game to see more of what I think of the actual game that isn't just version differences.
So they finally did it, they made a port where you actually get to play every stage in the game. So that must mean this is the best one right? Well...I hate to say it but it still has a bit of that frustration from the Arcade version. IDK why but some stages just gave me a bad time. But yes it is all here and there's even a new stage in the showers. You even get a special Omake stage similar to the Special stage from the PC Engine version.
The button problem has now been fully fixed and is even mappable so that's pretty cool. The game doesn't even have much slowdown or flicker though there can be slowdown at times. The music actually kind of disappointed me, it's not all bad but some of it is not very good in my opinion. I just expected better is all. At least the voice clips are here and this time don't sound too bad though sometimes they have delay to them which I find odd.
If you want something that is most accurate to the Arcade then this is your best bet here but for me despite missing stages, I still like the PC Engine version more and I'm probably in the minority. Though there is one change that I'm grateful for. YOU CAN TURN OFF THE ROULETTE! It felt so nice to never worry about that stupid dumb roulette showing up. It's still a good game at the end of the day but I do hope the sequels improve on this one.
Well guys and gals, that was all of them. "But what about the SharpX68000-" NOPE that was surely all of them. Yep. I'm gonna take a small break from this series but I'll be tackling the other games soon. It was fun despite the issues and maybe these reviews will motivate you to try all the ports out but probably not...
Rankings of the ports! (in my awful opinion as always)
1st - PC Engine
2nd - Super Famicom
3rd - Game Boy
4th - Famicom
So they finally did it, they made a port where you actually get to play every stage in the game. So that must mean this is the best one right? Well...I hate to say it but it still has a bit of that frustration from the Arcade version. IDK why but some stages just gave me a bad time. But yes it is all here and there's even a new stage in the showers. You even get a special Omake stage similar to the Special stage from the PC Engine version.
The button problem has now been fully fixed and is even mappable so that's pretty cool. The game doesn't even have much slowdown or flicker though there can be slowdown at times. The music actually kind of disappointed me, it's not all bad but some of it is not very good in my opinion. I just expected better is all. At least the voice clips are here and this time don't sound too bad though sometimes they have delay to them which I find odd.
If you want something that is most accurate to the Arcade then this is your best bet here but for me despite missing stages, I still like the PC Engine version more and I'm probably in the minority. Though there is one change that I'm grateful for. YOU CAN TURN OFF THE ROULETTE! It felt so nice to never worry about that stupid dumb roulette showing up. It's still a good game at the end of the day but I do hope the sequels improve on this one.
Well guys and gals, that was all of them. "But what about the SharpX68000-" NOPE that was surely all of them. Yep. I'm gonna take a small break from this series but I'll be tackling the other games soon. It was fun despite the issues and maybe these reviews will motivate you to try all the ports out but probably not...
Rankings of the ports! (in my awful opinion as always)
1st - PC Engine
2nd - Super Famicom
3rd - Game Boy
4th - Famicom