After a decade since seeing it first on the Nokia N-Gage of a friend, but never knowing the name, I found it again and finally got my hands on PANDEMONIUM!
A classic beautiful 2.5D platformer originally made for PS1.
Colorful, crazy, and hilarious, the title is brilliant for some jokes, and frustrating for others, like the camera.
And while it has very nice ideas, it's a pity the game doesn't shine in this version.
The game in its PC version is simply shameful, having no options in any sense, not even for the resolution which is the native one of PS1; 320x240...a VHS.
Maintaining the password system instead of implementing savegame was definitely a choice, but I guess from some perspective, it undoubtedly makes you immersed with the time it came out. Jokes and jests aside, it is obvious that there is not even a pseudo save that is actually a savestate, because the port was done by one person in 10 minutes likely with an open-source PS1 emulator.
It's really disappointing that there isn't even a straightforward way to rebind the controls on PC, so much so I learned it from a comment on this review!
As cheap as it might be both on Steam or the gray market, rather than recommending the purchase of the product to play it, I recommend it to own it and consequently emulating it, because ePSXe does a better job with stock settings than whatever they've done at Square Enix.
A classic beautiful 2.5D platformer originally made for PS1.
Colorful, crazy, and hilarious, the title is brilliant for some jokes, and frustrating for others, like the camera.
And while it has very nice ideas, it's a pity the game doesn't shine in this version.
The game in its PC version is simply shameful, having no options in any sense, not even for the resolution which is the native one of PS1; 320x240...a VHS.
Maintaining the password system instead of implementing savegame was definitely a choice, but I guess from some perspective, it undoubtedly makes you immersed with the time it came out. Jokes and jests aside, it is obvious that there is not even a pseudo save that is actually a savestate, because the port was done by one person in 10 minutes likely with an open-source PS1 emulator.
It's really disappointing that there isn't even a straightforward way to rebind the controls on PC, so much so I learned it from a comment on this review!
As cheap as it might be both on Steam or the gray market, rather than recommending the purchase of the product to play it, I recommend it to own it and consequently emulating it, because ePSXe does a better job with stock settings than whatever they've done at Square Enix.