Just buy the dog at the Pet Shop and walk straight through the swamp. He'll pull you out each time.
The "OBJ03" or whatever is in every game. Its not much of a bug, just something that they didn't end up using/finishing.
As for my impressions. Back in the day, I had low expectations for the game. Judging from the screenshots(in Mags & the Radio Shack flyer) and the fact that it was an ICOM Sim game, I thought that at best, it might be fun enough to play once through.
I only managed to pick up a copy recently for $100 without the map(complete as far as I'm concerned).
However, all I've read about the game online the last couple of years is how unbelievably amazing it is. Specifically, the graphics. All I've read is how it must use all 256 or even 512 colors at once("just like Magical Chase and Drac X!!!"
).
The fact that anyone would say anything so foolish led me to believe that it was the same deal as Sapphire(which apparently uses the 'power' of the Arcade Card(a ram cart) to push better 3D graphics than a 1st gen PSX game
).
Sure enough, it turns out that each background in the game only has 16 colors or less. You can easily count them ona decent TV screen. Each BG has 3 or 4 real colors, with 3 or 4 shades to each.
And all the backgrounds appear to have been scanned in without any touch up(pixel haze + the odd squared areas with color bleeding).
Still most of the BG's look nice for this type of game, a lot better than I was expecting. I personally don't like the art style(Shape Shifter cinemas) outside of the natural BG's(cities are ugly) and all the sprites look like they were drawn and animated(breaks every rule of animation) by a 13 year-old(notebook doodles).
The areas only scroll horizontally, the main character can only walk(no running) very slow and the game is really short.
The digitized sfx and voice samples are good, but the voice acting(I've read that its best CD game acting EVER!!!
) is pretty lame, but serves it's purpose for this type of game.
I love how quick and easy it is to Save & Load, without it, this game would be unplayable. One thing you
need to know to play though, is that nothing you've done in the current screen gets saved, only everything up to and before the current area(this will f*ck you over bad).
With all that said, its still a fun game to play through once(too bad there's no real.
If you're not a collector or anything and you just want to play the game, you should just borrow a copy from a friend or download an ISO. Its definately not worth the price of addmission, at least not by Turbo/PCE standards(think of which games you could pick up for the same price).
