A port of Strider
The Striders are a global organization of infiltration specialists who work to combat villainy and keep the world safe. From their orbital space station, the Blue Dragon, they are able to quickly reach anywhere in the world.
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A shame these older Strider games have such crappy programming (I applaud anyone who can master the wall jump in this Micronics tier NES game sloppiness) because they have some interesting ambitions narratively. You could say it's because the game is also very ambitious gameplay wise due to its metroidvania nature, but they didn't need to do a Super Pitfall-esque huge level which is stored in memory but fails to be smooth when Capcom already made the NES Captain Commando which also was very ambitious for its time.
It's also ridiculous this NES game drops the fact you are trying to rescue your sister when even the crappy Sega Genesis Strider II remembered that at the end
It's also ridiculous this NES game drops the fact you are trying to rescue your sister when even the crappy Sega Genesis Strider II remembered that at the end
It's alright.
This game was coded by a five year old
Good idea hindered by bad execution and awful programming. This game feels like it's held together with chewing gum.
This could've been a fantastic game if it had been properly finished. As it stands, it's absolutely loaded with weird bugs and glitches, questionable collision detection, a poor translation even by late 80s Capcom standards, and the triangle jump maneuver you need for certain portions of the game is ridiculously tricky to pull off without a turbo controller.
I really get the feeling that Capcom USA wanted to get this out to ride on the popularity of the arcade game, and just didn't give the Japanese branch time to actually put on the finishing touches this game desperately needed
I really get the feeling that Capcom USA wanted to get this out to ride on the popularity of the arcade game, and just didn't give the Japanese branch time to actually put on the finishing touches this game desperately needed
I got filtered by the "triangle jump" here, which is the method used to walljump. It's almost impossible to use 100% of the time, which makes platforming ridiculously hard. It's a shame, because unlike the Genesis version this game has somewhat of a story to it, and a better soundtrack, but it's just your run of the mill NES platformer that is plagued with slowdown.