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And now here's a picture from "LFrench106":
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The best of us.
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The Critic Corner
(May's Games)
By E. CyberBRO
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MZX
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NAME: Adventure
AUTHOR: AHMorrow (DarkMage Software)
GRADE: F
LOCATION: AOL
SIZE:
QUOTE: "A short adventure game. Took two days to make. Have fun with it.
Storyline: You are fighting Slay, a villan who wants to destroy the galaxy.
You must get to his lair and kill him.
* * *
Notice: In the fight with the boss, the player sometimes cannot move and is
change to a certain color for a while. The CYCLE commands of the game did
not agree with the CYCLE commands of the robot, so don't exit the game when
this happens."
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Fortunately:
1. It's a game where you have to save the galaxy.
Unfortunately:
1. You save the galaxy in about a minute.
2. The Final Boss (Not to mention the ONLY boss) shoots bullets
taking only very few hits to kill.
3. Collect Ammo, go through some boards, beat one guy, the end.
Not very thought provoking.
4. He mentioned earlier about the Notice. I'm sorry, this is just
TOO D@mn moronic. Well, why didn't he fix it!!? Don't tell me
it can't be fixed because I went into the edit and reprogrammed
the boss. Here's his biggest problem. He had "CYCLE 5" along
with commands such as "WAIT 10", "WAIT 20", and even "WAIT 50".
Put 2 & 2 together and it doesn't take a Genius to figure out that
the WAIT command is too long. I found that it worked with "WAIT 2"
or up to "WAIT 5".
5. Let's see....takes him two days to make. Not much creativity.
MZX
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NAME: Spirit Revenge
AUTHOR: Autumn Software
GRADE: A+
LOCATION: Megazeux Stockpile Website
SIZE: 301K
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Fortunately:
1. It's wins the MEGAZEUX EXCELLENCE award at the Stockpile Website.
2. Some of the greatest graphics every known for Megazeux.
3. Awesome animation!
4. Great humor!
5. Special effects are uncanny!
6. And lets not forget the GAMEPLAY. Plays like Wierdness with it's
inventory based system.
7. The strategy needed here will keep you going for a while.
8. You MUST download to believe it.
Unfortunately: (All games have at least one gripe)
1. It's a little short. And there only about one or two ways to
die.
2. I had to use the Megazeux edit to figure out some solutions.
(I'm only mediocre at these type of games)
MZX
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NAME: Final Fantasy EdVenture (Preview?)
AUTHOR: Duky Inc.
GRADE: B-
LOCATION: Megazeux Stockpile
SIZE: 860K
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Fortunately:
1. Cool interface. (Choose what type of character you want.)
2. Nifty battle engine. (Uses separate Suplement.)
3. Cool Graphics.
4. Nice animation.
5. Room to improve.
Unfortunately:
1. Even in the beginning of the game you have a slim chance of
surviving as your HPs get drained very quickly.
2. Random encounters is a nice feature, however can get annoying
since you loose plenty of HPs every battle.
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Ranking │Name of Game /Author │Grade: │Time Reign │Last Month
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1st │Spirit Revenge /by Autumn Soft. │A+ │NEW │---
2nd │Talon's Tale /by SnigWich │A- │4 Months │1st
3rd │Darbytown II /by DNBishop │B+ │2 Months │2nd
4th │Mechzone Turbo /by Jeff Stein │B- │4 Months │3rd
5th │Final Fantasy EdVenture(Duky Inc)│B- │NEW │---
6th │Bomb Brothers /by SnigWich │B- │3 Months │4th
7th │Arisa /by Scott Barnes │C │4 Months │5th
8th │v1.1 Blue Buckaroo /by TotalKafka│C │1 Month │6th
9th │Violence Pak /by Xero942 │C- │4 Months │7th
10th │Doomsday Dream /by Cecil16 │C- │4 Months │8th
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-----Those that hit the road, Jack. And they ain't commin' back-----
* Justin's Quest /by Cheezit100
Time Reign: 3 Month Grade: D
* Castle Adventure /by AlexMan2
Time Reign: 2 Month Grade: D
* Adventure /by AHMorrow (DarkMage Soft.)
Time Reign: NEW Grade: F
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That's it for the NL this month. Until next month :-)
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