[Master System]
As you would expect of an arcade to Master System conversion, lots of little compromises had to be made, but the core gameplay and crucially the cartoony charm of the original remain intact.
FANTASY ZONE in the arcade isn’t a perfect game to begin with, and this version still has all of the problems of the original (squirrelly controls, a sort of busted upgrade system, wildly unbalanced combat), but here they stand out more because everything about the game was slightly downgraded in the porting. It’s much easier to overlook design quirks when the graphics, the music, and the controls are just a little bit better. Nevertheless, it’s still FANTASY ZONE, and that means that, on some level, it’s still cute and fun.
As you would expect of an arcade to Master System conversion, lots of little compromises had to be made, but the core gameplay and crucially the cartoony charm of the original remain intact.
FANTASY ZONE in the arcade isn’t a perfect game to begin with, and this version still has all of the problems of the original (squirrelly controls, a sort of busted upgrade system, wildly unbalanced combat), but here they stand out more because everything about the game was slightly downgraded in the porting. It’s much easier to overlook design quirks when the graphics, the music, and the controls are just a little bit better. Nevertheless, it’s still FANTASY ZONE, and that means that, on some level, it’s still cute and fun.