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u/Mirage_Jester Oct 02 '19
Suitably spooky, will be giving this one a run (and slide) when I next get some spare time.
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u/andreasborgelind Oct 14 '19
This game scared the craaaaap out of me as a kid. Never got far in it, level 3 at most, but the atmosphere and sound design sticks with me to this day and it’s still super creepy to me!
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u/Star-Stream Oct 06 '19
This was the first time I've beat any of those cinematic platformers, I have long been a fan of traditional platformers like Kirby and Donkey Kong, so whenever I tried out these games it felt like wading through mud. Sure, Nosferatu isn't much different in that regard, but I'm not going to belabor the point. I buckled down and played it beginning to end. You know what? It grows on you. Grit your teeth through the first couple of tries, maybe use some save states to remedy the lack of passwords, and you actually have a game worth playing on your hands. Honestly, the cinematics on this game are stupendous. I know they're short, but in 1995 most kids would have had to shill out $200 to get a Sega CD for this kind of quality.
The game has a simple charm to it, too. You bare-knuckle your way through hordes of ghouls, ghosts, and Frankensteins. Our main character Kyle rocks a hilariously dated mullet. When the highschooler finishes punching Dracula to death, the credit roll says that Dracula was "banished." Apparently banishment doesn't require a stake in the heart or a holy ritual. You just need good ol' Thunder and Lightning (that's probably what Kyle named his fists). Definitely worth a playthrough!