I'm a Low Level Hero Stuck in Clamp Tower and my Girlfriend is a Gremlin!
I don't have a Letterboxd account. The extent to which I'm willing to be an insufferable pretentious goon about media is video games, which is bad enough. I have to contain these compulsions and draw a line in the sand somewhere. I also like a lot of movies people might not find "good" in a conventional sense. The Leprechaun series, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Mario Bros., Good Burger... These are my Stalker's, my Mank's, my Blue is the Warmest Colour's, and none stand taller than Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Does perennial Film Twitter favorite The Long Goodbye have a cameo from WWE legend Hulk Hogan? No, I didn't think so.
I am predisposed to liking Gremlins 2: The New Batch: The Video Game, it can't be helped and I don't want it to be helped. I know what I like and I like Gremlins shooting tommy guns, and that's in the game so I like it too. But looking at it more objectively, I think Gremlins 2 is a surprisingly solid movie tie-in game from an era where those were routinely awful.
The game plays from an overhead perspective as you control Gizmo, navigating the heroic Mogwai through several levels in his mission to catch and compromise to a permanent end the Gremlin cabal that has taken over Clamp Tower. In another world this could've been a Die Hard game and it would be just as fun, especially if you left in the gigantic bouncing tomatoes and spiders for John McClane to shoot. Platforming feels satisfying and gets pretty tricky in later levels as you have to contend with out-of-control conveyor belts, electric barriers, and other hazards. I always liked to think of the increasing danger as being the result of the Gremlins gaining further control of (and subsequently damaging) the tower. I mean look at them, skateboarding around like they just don't care. You can't do that indoors, you'll break something!
I think in a lot of ways Gremlins 2 benefits from being such a late NES game, and it's evident the team Sunsoft put up to developing it had the console pretty well figured out by that point. Setting aside how deranged the secondhand market currently is, it's no surprise to me that a loose cart fetches around 30-40$. It's just a damn good game to have in your collection, not just for the novelty of owning a game based on Gremlins 2: The New Batch but because it's actually pretty fun.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to take a look at whoever rated this game low enough to give it a 2.7 average and make a mental note that their reviews are never to be trusted.
I don't have a Letterboxd account. The extent to which I'm willing to be an insufferable pretentious goon about media is video games, which is bad enough. I have to contain these compulsions and draw a line in the sand somewhere. I also like a lot of movies people might not find "good" in a conventional sense. The Leprechaun series, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Mario Bros., Good Burger... These are my Stalker's, my Mank's, my Blue is the Warmest Colour's, and none stand taller than Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Does perennial Film Twitter favorite The Long Goodbye have a cameo from WWE legend Hulk Hogan? No, I didn't think so.
I am predisposed to liking Gremlins 2: The New Batch: The Video Game, it can't be helped and I don't want it to be helped. I know what I like and I like Gremlins shooting tommy guns, and that's in the game so I like it too. But looking at it more objectively, I think Gremlins 2 is a surprisingly solid movie tie-in game from an era where those were routinely awful.
The game plays from an overhead perspective as you control Gizmo, navigating the heroic Mogwai through several levels in his mission to catch and compromise to a permanent end the Gremlin cabal that has taken over Clamp Tower. In another world this could've been a Die Hard game and it would be just as fun, especially if you left in the gigantic bouncing tomatoes and spiders for John McClane to shoot. Platforming feels satisfying and gets pretty tricky in later levels as you have to contend with out-of-control conveyor belts, electric barriers, and other hazards. I always liked to think of the increasing danger as being the result of the Gremlins gaining further control of (and subsequently damaging) the tower. I mean look at them, skateboarding around like they just don't care. You can't do that indoors, you'll break something!
I think in a lot of ways Gremlins 2 benefits from being such a late NES game, and it's evident the team Sunsoft put up to developing it had the console pretty well figured out by that point. Setting aside how deranged the secondhand market currently is, it's no surprise to me that a loose cart fetches around 30-40$. It's just a damn good game to have in your collection, not just for the novelty of owning a game based on Gremlins 2: The New Batch but because it's actually pretty fun.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to take a look at whoever rated this game low enough to give it a 2.7 average and make a mental note that their reviews are never to be trusted.