Remember those fucking terrible Simpsons games on NES? Well, Imagineering were pumping out that shit so hard that they even had it's engine infest other IPs.
Swamp Thing plays pretty much exactly like Bart Meets Radioactive Man, which came out literally around the same time as this apparently. Same abominable control scheme where run and jump are the same button, same exact sound effects and same ruthless checkpoint system/or lack thereof. This game though is worse than Radioactive Man, because despite the fact you're playing as a superhero, you're apparently less competent than Bart pretending to be one. Swamp Thing can punch and shoot shit after he picks up the ammo for that particular attack, but is deathly allergic to doing so while crouching and it feels like enemies easily lumber into you on accident when you attempt to hit them due to shitty hitboxes.
The most amount of hilarity I got out of this game was the visual of probably the most shy enemy in the history of video games; some guy hiding in his house tossing slow-moving knives out his front door. At least I assume someone's throwing them, I don't think the knives are sentient, but the obvious shoot reason was that they didn't have enough time to animate someone throwing them.
I love that the image for this game on here is just some person's ebay listing (I think), it goes really well with how low effort this game was in general. By the way, no this is not worth the hundreds it's going for on ebay. It's complete highway robbery, this game ain't even worth one tenths of a didgeridoo let alone a complete one.
Swamp Thing plays pretty much exactly like Bart Meets Radioactive Man, which came out literally around the same time as this apparently. Same abominable control scheme where run and jump are the same button, same exact sound effects and same ruthless checkpoint system/or lack thereof. This game though is worse than Radioactive Man, because despite the fact you're playing as a superhero, you're apparently less competent than Bart pretending to be one. Swamp Thing can punch and shoot shit after he picks up the ammo for that particular attack, but is deathly allergic to doing so while crouching and it feels like enemies easily lumber into you on accident when you attempt to hit them due to shitty hitboxes.
The most amount of hilarity I got out of this game was the visual of probably the most shy enemy in the history of video games; some guy hiding in his house tossing slow-moving knives out his front door. At least I assume someone's throwing them, I don't think the knives are sentient, but the obvious shoot reason was that they didn't have enough time to animate someone throwing them.
I love that the image for this game on here is just some person's ebay listing (I think), it goes really well with how low effort this game was in general. By the way, no this is not worth the hundreds it's going for on ebay. It's complete highway robbery, this game ain't even worth one tenths of a didgeridoo let alone a complete one.