Anett Futatabi is the third and final game in the El Viento/Earnest Evans trilogy, and I went through too much trouble for this game. I brainfarted and forgot to add a Japanese BIOs to my Mega Everdrive Pro, so I was lazy and just played this on Kega after tracking down the appropriate files.
Instead of being an action-platformer they decided to make this a crappy Golden Axe game, astounding since Golden Axe is already an underwhelming game. It also features some of the worst hit sound effects I've ever heard, if they're not horrendously weak sounding and barely audible then they're making shitty "CLANG" sounds, all while Annet screams her head off and overpowers everything else. The enemies are absolute dipshits who often attack the air without actually moving into your vicinity, and sometimes when you hit them offscreen they'll just take a trip to fucking Albuquerque for a while and take ages to move back onscreen. Despite this, them and the bosses are still annoying to deal with due to Annete being made of glass and only having one life. It also seems like she can be hit while getting up, which means possibly getting combo'd by an enemy mindlessly spamming their one attack.
You also can't use magic while fighting the boss, which is absolutely fucking bogus. "Oh sorry, we can't allow you to use magic, that'd be too easy!" What else could the justification be for that? Did she lose 50 IQ points from how boring the gameplay is like I did? Are the bosses emitting some kind of anti-magic EMP wave? Did she roll a fucking 1 on her knowledge (arcana)? Give me something.
Dull, boring, a chore to play. The absolute death sentence for any game regardless of content. The anime cutscenes are neat at least? Just wish they spent more of that budget on the actual gameplay. Just play Final Fight CD, don't bother with this garbage.
Why the fuck is the option screen using a picture of Anett laying down on a bed?! Excuse me?!
Instead of being an action-platformer they decided to make this a crappy Golden Axe game, astounding since Golden Axe is already an underwhelming game. It also features some of the worst hit sound effects I've ever heard, if they're not horrendously weak sounding and barely audible then they're making shitty "CLANG" sounds, all while Annet screams her head off and overpowers everything else. The enemies are absolute dipshits who often attack the air without actually moving into your vicinity, and sometimes when you hit them offscreen they'll just take a trip to fucking Albuquerque for a while and take ages to move back onscreen. Despite this, them and the bosses are still annoying to deal with due to Annete being made of glass and only having one life. It also seems like she can be hit while getting up, which means possibly getting combo'd by an enemy mindlessly spamming their one attack.
You also can't use magic while fighting the boss, which is absolutely fucking bogus. "Oh sorry, we can't allow you to use magic, that'd be too easy!" What else could the justification be for that? Did she lose 50 IQ points from how boring the gameplay is like I did? Are the bosses emitting some kind of anti-magic EMP wave? Did she roll a fucking 1 on her knowledge (arcana)? Give me something.
Dull, boring, a chore to play. The absolute death sentence for any game regardless of content. The anime cutscenes are neat at least? Just wish they spent more of that budget on the actual gameplay. Just play Final Fight CD, don't bother with this garbage.
Why the fuck is the option screen using a picture of Anett laying down on a bed?! Excuse me?!
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It just kinda baffles me how the series gets worse as it goes on, like Earnest Evans at least is humorous with the weird puppet movement but this game is like actively hurting me at times.
Weatherby
1 year ago