I can see why this was never released. The core gameplay is similar enough to Gauntlet that with friends, it can be really enjoyable (that gameplay being "run around and murder endless hordes of dweebs"), but the game fights you every time you want to enjoy it.
It has awful presentation, even for the time it was released. The difficultly doesn't scale with multiple players, so the game is either brutal or a cakewalk. The music didn't play for me at times, but this was an unreleased ROM, and considering the quality of the other tracks that might have been a good thing. The game was clearly unoptimized, with the framerate committing suicide the moment there's more than 3 enemies on screen.
The worst part though? You'll never, ever play with friends. These games only work if you can keep it together enough socially to have 1-3 other people willing to sit in a room with you and murder a small country's worth of goblins by hand. I don't know how you're going to convince anyone in 2023 to spend 3-4 hours going through a campaign that can be best described as "fine, for not being finished"
It has awful presentation, even for the time it was released. The difficultly doesn't scale with multiple players, so the game is either brutal or a cakewalk. The music didn't play for me at times, but this was an unreleased ROM, and considering the quality of the other tracks that might have been a good thing. The game was clearly unoptimized, with the framerate committing suicide the moment there's more than 3 enemies on screen.
The worst part though? You'll never, ever play with friends. These games only work if you can keep it together enough socially to have 1-3 other people willing to sit in a room with you and murder a small country's worth of goblins by hand. I don't know how you're going to convince anyone in 2023 to spend 3-4 hours going through a campaign that can be best described as "fine, for not being finished"