As the sequel to an actually good license game on NES you'd think they'd keep to the formula they had going and pop out another banger, but this is Godzilla and just like the movies they have to keep reinventing the IP because Toho is more indecisive than a 5-year-old.
So now you've taken this 2D fighter/platformer and you've turned it into a top-down military strategy RPG with a slot machine instead of normal attacks, and it's really confusing and convoluted. Like I tracked down the manual for this game down, (which by the way it was 34 pages long) and I still didn't understand how to play this game.
This is one of those NES games where you look at it and ask how any could've ever concerned this system to be the saving grace of the video game industry.
So now you've taken this 2D fighter/platformer and you've turned it into a top-down military strategy RPG with a slot machine instead of normal attacks, and it's really confusing and convoluted. Like I tracked down the manual for this game down, (which by the way it was 34 pages long) and I still didn't understand how to play this game.
This is one of those NES games where you look at it and ask how any could've ever concerned this system to be the saving grace of the video game industry.
RetroRevelations
1 year ago
1. While the slot mechanic IS a bit confusing, the game itself is not really convoluted. It's a pretty straight forward strategy experience, that doesn't take much time at all to get the hang of. And as strategy games go, slot nonsense or not, it's one of the better ones I've played, personally.
2. As far as "looking at this game, you wonder how anyone couldn't considered NES the saving grace of the video game industry"...I'm sorry, but that's a pretty lame comment. The NES was the saving grace of the industry (in the west, specifically for home consoles, computer and arcade gaming were booming), because it had a wealth of great games on it, but more specifically, it had games like Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Tetris, etc., games that literally shaped the future of the industry. The NES, in many ways, helped take gaming to the next level, and proved to be a huge leap ahead of what home gaming had previously been (which is all the more impressive when you stop to consider the core hardware is from 1983).
Just saying, for one thing Godzilla 2 is HARDLY a bad game. And even looking at many of the NES games that actually ARE "bad" by comparison, those games could never outweigh the many all-time great gems the console had. It is actually quite easy to see how it "save the industry", even just with Mario alone. Cheers!