I gotta admit I lost my patience with this one. I was already using save states but towards the end of this pretty annoying adventure, I switched over to using God Mode cheats just to see all the levels.
The suburban setting for a lot of these maps is charming at first before the game reuses the house designs a lot. Some levels had decent design and a captivating use of assets, but a lot of them bland and repetitive. Enemies are tamer than the second episode but they are also spammed around a lot more. In fact, the game's use of enemies and obstacles are more annoying than both other episodes combined.
There's a regression of creativity compared to the second game too. There weren't many clever tricks although the final boss is pretty good and works with Keen's moveset.
Even though replaying this Commander Keen trilogy was disappointing, I'm glad I can close the book on these games. Impressive for their time, better things were ahead for the franchise and PC platformers in general.
The suburban setting for a lot of these maps is charming at first before the game reuses the house designs a lot. Some levels had decent design and a captivating use of assets, but a lot of them bland and repetitive. Enemies are tamer than the second episode but they are also spammed around a lot more. In fact, the game's use of enemies and obstacles are more annoying than both other episodes combined.
There's a regression of creativity compared to the second game too. There weren't many clever tricks although the final boss is pretty good and works with Keen's moveset.
Even though replaying this Commander Keen trilogy was disappointing, I'm glad I can close the book on these games. Impressive for their time, better things were ahead for the franchise and PC platformers in general.