Swamp Thing is a platform video game for the NES and Game Boy. It is based on the animated series of the same name, focusing on the DC Comics superhero character Swamp Thing.
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Swamp Thing on the NES is rough. The idea of playing as a plant-based superhero sounds awesome, but the controls are clunky, the level design is a mess, and most enemies are way too small to hit. There are some moments where you feel the potential, but overall it's just frustrating and not very fun. Die-hard Swamp Thing fans might get a kick out of it for nostalgia, but everyone else should steer clear.
actually great! running and jumping with the same button adds wrinkles to your brain.
Remember those fucking terrible Simpsons games on NES? Well, Imagineering were pumping out that shit so hard that they even had it's engine infest other IPs.
Swamp Thing plays pretty much exactly like Bart Meets Radioactive Man, which came out literally around the same time as this apparently. Same abominable control scheme where run and jump are the same button, same exact sound effects and same ruthless checkpoint system/or lack thereof. This game though is worse than Radioactive Man, because despite the fact you're playing as a superhero, you're apparently less competent than Bart pretending to be one. Swamp Thing can punch and shoot shit after he picks up the ammo for that particular attack, but is deathly allergic to doing so while crouching and it feels like enemies easily lumber into you on accident when you attempt to hit them due to shitty hitboxes.
The most amount of hilarity I got out of this game was the visual of probably the most shy enemy in the history of video games; some guy hiding in his house tossing slow-moving knives out his front door. At least I assume someone's throwing them, I don't think the knives are sentient, but the obvious shoot reason was that they didn't have enough time to animate someone throwing them.
I love that the image for this game on here is just some person's ebay listing (I think), it goes really well with how low effort this game was in general. By the way, no this is not worth the hundreds it's going for on ebay. It's complete highway robbery, this game ain't even worth one tenths of a didgeridoo let alone a complete one.
Swamp Thing plays pretty much exactly like Bart Meets Radioactive Man, which came out literally around the same time as this apparently. Same abominable control scheme where run and jump are the same button, same exact sound effects and same ruthless checkpoint system/or lack thereof. This game though is worse than Radioactive Man, because despite the fact you're playing as a superhero, you're apparently less competent than Bart pretending to be one. Swamp Thing can punch and shoot shit after he picks up the ammo for that particular attack, but is deathly allergic to doing so while crouching and it feels like enemies easily lumber into you on accident when you attempt to hit them due to shitty hitboxes.
The most amount of hilarity I got out of this game was the visual of probably the most shy enemy in the history of video games; some guy hiding in his house tossing slow-moving knives out his front door. At least I assume someone's throwing them, I don't think the knives are sentient, but the obvious shoot reason was that they didn't have enough time to animate someone throwing them.
I love that the image for this game on here is just some person's ebay listing (I think), it goes really well with how low effort this game was in general. By the way, no this is not worth the hundreds it's going for on ebay. It's complete highway robbery, this game ain't even worth one tenths of a didgeridoo let alone a complete one.
I really liked the swamp thing cartoon growing up and I had this game to. It sucks. Feels like an LJN game. ST moves like molasses and jumps like a dork. Every enemy looks dumb and is always out of hit range. Played it many times hoping to get farther and maybe have some fun but I never did.