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.