Made a few attempts at playing this game in the past and more recently in the past couple day. Call it pathetic, but I've pretty much given up on the real system and resorted to emulation and save states. The game is really good and most of the gameplay; fighting, movement, bosses, etc. hasn't been too difficult to figure out. The controls seem nice and tight. The bosses patterns and how to beat them so far hasn't been a problem to figure out. The jumping portions of the game seems to be where the real deal breaker lies. So far I've come across two areas where these jumping sections are, one being the cliffs and the other in the mines.
The cliffs were fun trying to get through being that your required to use the panther. It's a longer length sprite which makes the need to position your jumps more important. Make a jump and attempt to land smack in the middle of the next spot. If your off by a fraction of an inch (i.e. if one of the panther's paws hang off the edge), you slip off and most likely off the screen and you lose a life. The process wouldn't be so tedious if you weren't so limited on lives and it is too early in the game to burn through too many.
The mine is the next area that has given me some trouble and where I am at now. Has a pit right in the middle of the lower part of the shaft and boulders falling at a constant pace. Slip or get hit by a rock in mid-jump and into the pit you go. You have to jump from elevator to elevator while avoiding the rocks. I wagered that the golem was necessary for this section, but it moves so slow and its jump range is so short, I can't make it to one of the elevators.
Another point of interest is the temple where the Seeker boss is. First I entered as a human, got called names by the bitch on the throne and killed by her fireball. Second time I chanced the panther. The bitch mention about a cat entering and that its a good sign. I get control back and a couple seconds later she kills me anyway because I wasn't the "man-beast". Ok, two lives down and I figure now that I may have to change from cat to man. Made me crack a smile when i saw her get smashed by the two stone paws...bitch. So, I'm supposed to lose two lives to find out the proper technique to deal with her? Where was I told what to do and by who?
Game is fun, but fairly challenging due to the lack of info on what to do next. Your just supposed to know. Should I be consulting the annoying voice of the fortune teller in the first town? Is their something my dumb ass is missing? Why does this post contain several hundred words? Anyone have some advise on how to handle this game?
Or do I just f*cking suck? Nevermind, I don't want to know.
Topic: Shapeshifter (Read 505 times)
