Game of the Week Club

[sunteam_paul]

Paul - how many levels of parallax does that top background have

9

[Arkhan]

Yeah, see, bat shit insane. 

[awack]

As time goes by, i care less about parallax scrolling and more about art work and animation for some reason, but when i played this back in 91, it was pretty amazing, similar to the canyon level in Musha,but better..hell, the first time i saw that level in musha, i dropped the controller and grabbed both sides of the TV because i thought i was going to fall into the lava steam at the bottom of the conyon 



One cool thing about the this level, is the horizontal and vertical scrolling of the BG.I have more screens of this game i might post.

[sunteam_paul]

Yeah, the vertical scrolling really gives it some depth and looks great. A pity more games didn't use a similar effect.

[awack]

[Tatsujin]

Yeah, see, bat shit insane. 

[Arkhan]

it takes some strong pixel fu to be able to get parallax to look nice...

The effect itself is easy to do, but if you just slap down some ugly messed up, stupid looking tiles and start sliding them around, it looks like pixel puke


My favorite parallax still to this day is Shadow of the Beast.

[futurematt]

@ awack fine screenshots! Done the game justice.

[sunteam_paul]

LEGENDARY AXE

[Tatsujin]

a legendary game.

[shubibiman]

I played it through back in 1996 (I wouldn't be able to repeat such a performance) and I think it's a very good old fashioned platformer. The graphics don't always look good but I like them overall. A rather difficult game.

[runinruder]

Review and screens for the greatest HuCard ever, The Legendary Axe:

http://www.thebrothersduomazov.com/search/label/Legendary%20Axe

[turbogrfxfan]

Is such a great game.  Those frikkin bats really piss me off ot moths whatever they were flying around my head.

[Arkhan]

this is a perfectly good game.  The music is funny sometimes.  That weird jungle fantasy music cracks me up

sometimes the controls feel a bit herkyjerky, but overall it's a very fun game.

my only complaint is sometimes the graphics don't look done

[sunteam_paul]

The jumps on zone 3B just royally piss me off. I really enjoy the game up to that point.