This game really surprised me. Typically when I think of NES games it's either series that I know to expect something of because they're still around (Super Mario Bros, Metroid, The Legend of Zelda) while most of the others have ideals that translated poorly from the era of arcades.
Mighy Bomb Jack however is incredibly intricate in its design. You play as a guy traversing a pyramid to save a royal family. The guy can jump real high but if you hit the jump button repeatedly you can slow your fall to a glide OR you can hold down and jump again to drop quickly.
The game is divided into 16 action stages and 16 royal palace rooms. After every side scrolling action room you end up in a palace room which is just one screen. The things you collect in the game are bombs and in a palace room you have a bunch of bombs but one is lit. If you merely collect all the bombs however you can you get a Save and move onto the next action stage. However! If you collect the bombs in a palace room avoiding the lit one until last, you get a Warp which let's you bypass the next action stage and go to the next palace room. This is a gamble though because while you can keep doing this and skipping action stages drastically shortening the game you can also die during it which sends you back to the first room you started warping from.
There's also like secret passages to find and power ups. There's a torture room the game sends you to if you get too greedy and gain too many power ups or you extend your time too much. There's even multiple endings based on if you find certain secrets.
In my brief time playing the game I was able to gamble all the way to the end and save the King but that was all. I wasn't able to save the Queen or Princess because I warped past the levels containing the secret items necessary to gain access to the other royal family member rooms. It just makes me want to play even more to get the best ending.
So yeah the game can be pretty challenging but its also vast in ideas and there's enough here to warrant several playthroughs. There's not much of a story but that's expected for a game of this era. Definitely worth playing if you can handle a challenge.
Mighy Bomb Jack however is incredibly intricate in its design. You play as a guy traversing a pyramid to save a royal family. The guy can jump real high but if you hit the jump button repeatedly you can slow your fall to a glide OR you can hold down and jump again to drop quickly.
The game is divided into 16 action stages and 16 royal palace rooms. After every side scrolling action room you end up in a palace room which is just one screen. The things you collect in the game are bombs and in a palace room you have a bunch of bombs but one is lit. If you merely collect all the bombs however you can you get a Save and move onto the next action stage. However! If you collect the bombs in a palace room avoiding the lit one until last, you get a Warp which let's you bypass the next action stage and go to the next palace room. This is a gamble though because while you can keep doing this and skipping action stages drastically shortening the game you can also die during it which sends you back to the first room you started warping from.
There's also like secret passages to find and power ups. There's a torture room the game sends you to if you get too greedy and gain too many power ups or you extend your time too much. There's even multiple endings based on if you find certain secrets.
In my brief time playing the game I was able to gamble all the way to the end and save the King but that was all. I wasn't able to save the Queen or Princess because I warped past the levels containing the secret items necessary to gain access to the other royal family member rooms. It just makes me want to play even more to get the best ending.
So yeah the game can be pretty challenging but its also vast in ideas and there's enough here to warrant several playthroughs. There's not much of a story but that's expected for a game of this era. Definitely worth playing if you can handle a challenge.