Oooooookay... Can I start by saying that this game is kinda horrifying?
Ralph doesn't just bounce up and down the screen like Mario or Sonic when losing a life, oh no. This poor kid gets impaled, crushed(both of these complete with blood splashes), vored and digested by slimes, burnt to a crisp, petrified and eaten by maggots with his SKULL flying out once they're done, jesus christ.
I guess 7 year old me playing this didn't really understand what was going on, because I definitely didn't remember this part of the game lmao
With that out of the way... It's alright. Very old school. 1-hit deaths unless you grab a shield around the stages, power-ups you lose after death, score fruits all over the place and uh... Also a fighting game?
Yeah, from Stage 4 or so onwards, bosses turn into traditional fighting game battles. That caught me by surprise, but throwing out not-Hadoukens and not-Shoryukens to beat their asses was oddly endearing.
What isn't oddly endearing is the difficulty spike akin to a glass-covered hamburger on the last stretch of 8-3, what the fuck was up with that. Precision platforming to the extreme; thank god you can use continues...
The soundtrack is very bouncy and catchy, but the instruments kinda suck. It sounds like someone having a lot of fun with a cheap Casio keyboard at times.
Fun game, but 8-3 can go die in a fire. And the death animations were somewhat offputting in a game like this, even if it did get a laugh out of me.
Ralph doesn't just bounce up and down the screen like Mario or Sonic when losing a life, oh no. This poor kid gets impaled, crushed(both of these complete with blood splashes), vored and digested by slimes, burnt to a crisp, petrified and eaten by maggots with his SKULL flying out once they're done, jesus christ.
I guess 7 year old me playing this didn't really understand what was going on, because I definitely didn't remember this part of the game lmao
With that out of the way... It's alright. Very old school. 1-hit deaths unless you grab a shield around the stages, power-ups you lose after death, score fruits all over the place and uh... Also a fighting game?
Yeah, from Stage 4 or so onwards, bosses turn into traditional fighting game battles. That caught me by surprise, but throwing out not-Hadoukens and not-Shoryukens to beat their asses was oddly endearing.
What isn't oddly endearing is the difficulty spike akin to a glass-covered hamburger on the last stretch of 8-3, what the fuck was up with that. Precision platforming to the extreme; thank god you can use continues...
The soundtrack is very bouncy and catchy, but the instruments kinda suck. It sounds like someone having a lot of fun with a cheap Casio keyboard at times.
Fun game, but 8-3 can go die in a fire. And the death animations were somewhat offputting in a game like this, even if it did get a laugh out of me.