Personally I agree with Victor, the game sucked. The lack of parallax made it look like Insector X. I never thought the Genesis version was very good either, they both sucked in my opinion. Strider is another one that doesn't really hold up anymore either, I remember all the mags raving about how it was arcade perfect when in reality it's pretty unplayable with all the flicker and bad collision detection. The turbo version is even worse though, it's terrible.
And the Saturn version of Dracula X was total shit in my opinion, the slowdown and fake transperancies were horrible, and this is coming from a guy who LOVES the Saturn. Konami just did a total half assed job on it, and the new character/areas were blatantly just tacked on and absolutely no fun at all. The PSX version is way superior by virtue of having no slowdown and being in english.
I agree that Strider isn't much of a game in any form(other than NES) and that the home versions aren't what they should be.
I prefer the Saturn Drac X because of the 3rd hand to equip items with and the speed boots. I can't handle walking around the second castle or going through a menu and switching equipment just to use an item. It
was a total crap port, but that doesn't mean the game went from genius to garbage. The only way I can see calling the Saturn version useless is if you think the original isn't shit hot(like with Strider).
As for agreeing with Victor, he said that Forgotten Worlds was identical to the Genesis version, which anyone who's played them can tell you is ludicrous. I don't have the rest of the review in front of me, but the point was that he wasn't saying that Forgotten Worlds sucked, just the turbo version did because of reasons that weren't true.
If someone's going to judge an aspect of something, then they should judge it, not just pull it out of their ass. Thats what he did, it sounds like he didn't even actually play the game.
But it does suck when the slightest imperfection(especially aesthetic) in a port to an unpopluar system, like Saturn, gets a game trashed altogether.
Especially when Saturn to PSX ports like Grandia and Lunar SSS are horribly disfigured graphically, but they're reviewed as actually superior.(don't get me started on "blue shadows").
If you don't like the gameplay of Forgotten Worlds in general, thats cool. But its still a beautiful looking game and is one of the best CPS to 16-bit console ports visually. And the sound also deserves praise, since all the sfx are sampled from the arcade and the music is more than just 'decent'.
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