A game that it's only worth for the historical value. It's the first Rare game on NES. It's cute, the 8-bits butts are well defined, but it's just painful. Physically painful. Having to accelerate using the D-Pad in a game where you constantly crash into obstacles is intuitive, but not ideal. It's a game to play for 5 minutes to see what's about, then forget about it forever.
Bro is actually caked, tho.
All about skiing. I’ll admit to using the rewind feature a lot to play though this. Without it, Slalom would be an incredibly frustrating experience.
In Slalom, you have to get to the bottom of the slope before the time runs out. There are opponents, but they’re just there to get in your way. There will also be trees, snowmen and kids sledding uphill to avoid. Some parts of this required a lot of luck as you have to avoid obstacles as well as the other skiers who can block gaps at the worst time.
You also have to make sure you go through the slalom flags – miss a flag and you’ll slow down. There’s also a trick system when doing jumps, but it’s best to avoid jumps as it will slow you down. If you do more than a couple of small mess ups, you will likely not make it in time.
Each mountain has 9 slopes that you work through. In order to progress to the next slope, you have to finish in time. If you don’t, you go straight to the main menu. No second attempt or extra lives, just back to the main menu to start from the beginning. You need a perfect run to see all the tracks in the game.
With the Rare Replay features, I instead had fun seeing how long I could go without needing a rewind, so I could try weaving through loads of moving objects without the frustration of having to redo everything if I hit a single one of them. The challenges also proved to be a lot of fun, as these don’t have the rewind but are quick to try again.
Slalom is a game which wasn’t a great game for its time, but has been turned into something that can be enjoyed due to the extra features of Rare Replay.
For “completion” I beat all 27 courses, then went on and completed the snapshots. These takes some difficult parts of the game, but are doable and fun due to being able to restart the course straight away.
In Slalom, you have to get to the bottom of the slope before the time runs out. There are opponents, but they’re just there to get in your way. There will also be trees, snowmen and kids sledding uphill to avoid. Some parts of this required a lot of luck as you have to avoid obstacles as well as the other skiers who can block gaps at the worst time.
You also have to make sure you go through the slalom flags – miss a flag and you’ll slow down. There’s also a trick system when doing jumps, but it’s best to avoid jumps as it will slow you down. If you do more than a couple of small mess ups, you will likely not make it in time.
Each mountain has 9 slopes that you work through. In order to progress to the next slope, you have to finish in time. If you don’t, you go straight to the main menu. No second attempt or extra lives, just back to the main menu to start from the beginning. You need a perfect run to see all the tracks in the game.
With the Rare Replay features, I instead had fun seeing how long I could go without needing a rewind, so I could try weaving through loads of moving objects without the frustration of having to redo everything if I hit a single one of them. The challenges also proved to be a lot of fun, as these don’t have the rewind but are quick to try again.
Slalom is a game which wasn’t a great game for its time, but has been turned into something that can be enjoyed due to the extra features of Rare Replay.
For “completion” I beat all 27 courses, then went on and completed the snapshots. These takes some difficult parts of the game, but are doable and fun due to being able to restart the course straight away.
I mean... it's skiing. Do you like skiing? Skiing is pretty relaxing. He was an individual I met when I decided to take a vacation from everything thanks to Pinball's advice. I decided to head up to, well, a ski resort, and he was one of the heads of said ski resort.
He took his job pretty seriously, making sure that every one of the guests had a great time, nobody got hurt, all the equipment was safe and up to date, and believe it or not, he also pays his employees well! That is something I never thought I would see too often. Either way, we didn't really interact that much, but with the few times I did interact with him, he seemed like a swell guy.
I went ahead and decided to stay up near this ski resort for about a month, just to really let every bad feeling and negative memory flow from my body. And, to my credit, it worked wonders. Since I didn't have to focus on real life responsibilities, and since I was away from all of the struggles of my home town, I slowly came to terms with my father dying, as well as just overall gaining a sense of peace that I hadn't had before.
By the time I decided to return home, I felt pretty good about myself, and was ready to take on what lies ahead of me upon my return. Although, on my way home, I looked at my phone and noticed quite a good number of phone calls from Tennis and Baseball, all in good succession. It all happened in the span of one day, but this was a few days ago, and I just happened to not notice. Not sure what that could've been about, but if they haven't called again after that, the problem must've resolved itself. We'll see once I actually arrive back home.
Game #168
He took his job pretty seriously, making sure that every one of the guests had a great time, nobody got hurt, all the equipment was safe and up to date, and believe it or not, he also pays his employees well! That is something I never thought I would see too often. Either way, we didn't really interact that much, but with the few times I did interact with him, he seemed like a swell guy.
I went ahead and decided to stay up near this ski resort for about a month, just to really let every bad feeling and negative memory flow from my body. And, to my credit, it worked wonders. Since I didn't have to focus on real life responsibilities, and since I was away from all of the struggles of my home town, I slowly came to terms with my father dying, as well as just overall gaining a sense of peace that I hadn't had before.
By the time I decided to return home, I felt pretty good about myself, and was ready to take on what lies ahead of me upon my return. Although, on my way home, I looked at my phone and noticed quite a good number of phone calls from Tennis and Baseball, all in good succession. It all happened in the span of one day, but this was a few days ago, and I just happened to not notice. Not sure what that could've been about, but if they haven't called again after that, the problem must've resolved itself. We'll see once I actually arrive back home.
Game #168
Um jogo em que a dificuldade é mais frustrante do que um desafio divertido. A premissa do jogo é simples e excelente, mas é mal executada pois existem muitos obstáculos na pista. Junta isso + a jogabilidade meio dura da época (principalmente pra fazer curvas) e o game vira um verdadeiro desafio. Apesar dos pesares me entreteve durante um tempinho.
A solid skiing game for its era. It moves fast and has a solid framerate that lets you keep up with the action as you tear downhill, avoiding trees and others and weaving between flags. It nails everything it's trying to do.
Pretty awful game. It’s also not easy. Although the main theme is really dope. The graphics are also dizzying.
Had immense amounts of fun with this when all I had was an NES but it doesn't hold up that well in this current day and age unless you are into retro gaming.
At first I thought "oh, it's better Mach Rider" but no, this game is far more brutal than Mach Rider.
So you gotta ski fast, right? Well tough shit, things are coming at you a mile a minute and the consequences can be dire, a full stop even. Go too slow, other skiers wearing nothing at all, nothing at all will come from behind and pound your skier's ass if he tries to accelerate, flipping you right back out. Go too slow, and you'll miss the strict time requirements to keep going. Oh, and the flags? You better get between them or your skier will slow down, just because. But you have to be precise because the flags are obstacles too. One missed game and it's back to the start. I cleared all the courses on Snowy Hill, the EASY course, and I still had to abuse save states to make it even remotely feasable.
Definitely not a game meant to be played with a modern mindset, you're supposed to just see how far you go and that's it. Unfortunately playing legit will not get you very far.
So you gotta ski fast, right? Well tough shit, things are coming at you a mile a minute and the consequences can be dire, a full stop even. Go too slow, other skiers wearing nothing at all, nothing at all will come from behind and pound your skier's ass if he tries to accelerate, flipping you right back out. Go too slow, and you'll miss the strict time requirements to keep going. Oh, and the flags? You better get between them or your skier will slow down, just because. But you have to be precise because the flags are obstacles too. One missed game and it's back to the start. I cleared all the courses on Snowy Hill, the EASY course, and I still had to abuse save states to make it even remotely feasable.
Definitely not a game meant to be played with a modern mindset, you're supposed to just see how far you go and that's it. Unfortunately playing legit will not get you very far.
Play it once for 30 seconds, go "Woah, 3D Skiing on on Nintendo?!" and then never touch it again
Very little lasting appeal.
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Definitely a game I would have loved to like more: the initial concept is good and elegantly thought out with a good balance between time, freestyle and the idea of pushing towards aggressive gameplay with the solo points concept. Nevertheless, the game's overly high speed makes the experience particularly difficult and takes away much of the initial fun. As with Mach Rider, the very poor visibility prevents you from reacting properly to obstacles and the title becomes more of a rote game than a reflex game, which seemed to be its initial concept. A pity.
Rough Skiing game
Another super hard NES game. It is pretty cool to see a 2.5D NES game, and the graphics are nice. That Skiier is cheeked up though god damn.
There's single player mode and two player mode, idk what two player mode is as I didn't play it.
There are three what you could call levels I guess. Each level has a bunch of different courses that you have to complete in a time-frame. I only fully completed one of these levels, and it was here that I figured I've gotten my fill and don't really want to play the other ones, as they'd probably be the same gameplay just even harder.
And holy fuck this is hard man. You've got to zoom through a narrow course as there's millions of things that will hit you and slow you down. I mean there's barely any free space here, and when you go to that free space another skiier will just barrel into you and crash.
Along with the controls being pretty bad and just wanky, it's really stressful the entire time and kinda annoying. You'll find yourself just annoyed about all the shit getting in your way.
Really not the worst game ever, but it's just kinda frustrating more than anything. I will say though it is pretty satisfying to beat a course, gives a little bit of adrenaline yk.
Idk if I'd recommend it, but it's not that bad. Play it if you want to man.
Another super hard NES game. It is pretty cool to see a 2.5D NES game, and the graphics are nice. That Skiier is cheeked up though god damn.
There's single player mode and two player mode, idk what two player mode is as I didn't play it.
There are three what you could call levels I guess. Each level has a bunch of different courses that you have to complete in a time-frame. I only fully completed one of these levels, and it was here that I figured I've gotten my fill and don't really want to play the other ones, as they'd probably be the same gameplay just even harder.
And holy fuck this is hard man. You've got to zoom through a narrow course as there's millions of things that will hit you and slow you down. I mean there's barely any free space here, and when you go to that free space another skiier will just barrel into you and crash.
Along with the controls being pretty bad and just wanky, it's really stressful the entire time and kinda annoying. You'll find yourself just annoyed about all the shit getting in your way.
Really not the worst game ever, but it's just kinda frustrating more than anything. I will say though it is pretty satisfying to beat a course, gives a little bit of adrenaline yk.
Idk if I'd recommend it, but it's not that bad. Play it if you want to man.
visual treat