pierrot wrote:I'm a little disappointed that you relied on a key map, but still happy you had some fun with Nemo. I don't think that many people really even know about the game, compared to the Disney or Mega Man Capcom games for the console.
I know what you mean about a lot of dangers appearing to be unavoidable (I think the one that sticks out most to me is the dandelion seeds in the second level) but in my experience, everything in the game is actually avoidable, with enough persistence put into observing enemy patterns, and platforming execution. That's one of the main reasons I find it so impeccably crafted. I also think it reinforces the necessity to use all the animal 'transformations' since a lot of them have considerably more health than Nemo alone. I felt that there was also a plethora of healing items speckled throughout each level, although some of them do tend to be pretty hidden. Ultimately, I like the emphasis placed on exploration in most of the stages, and the ball busting difficulty felt too fair for me to ever be upset with anything other than my own lack of competence with the game. Clearing a stage, and beating the game felt so much more rewarding than doing the same thing in most other games.
I've beaten a couple different versions of Mickey Mania, and while i wouldn't say it's an easy game, I also don't see at as a particularly difficult game.
I kind of prefer the Genesis version of Mickey Mania to the Sega CD version, though. I actually like the FM soundtrack better, and the added fight against Pete in the last stage is a really pointless addition to a level that, to your point, is already a very long level.
I was thinking of the dandelions, but there's specifically a point in the 2nd last level where you have to climb up a wall as the mouse, and even if you make the dandelion start falling to the side and then climb up right away, there doesn't seem to be a way to get to the top of the wall before the next one to spawn hits you, and your hammer randomly doesn't work when going vertically.
I don't feel bad about using a key map. I find the 'find x things in this stage before you can exit' gameplay to be very tedious in 2d platformers.
I was annoyed that when getting an animal buddy your health didn't rise. You had to change animal buddies quite frequently, so having 5 health points as the mouse made little difference - if you made it to the mouse in bee form with 4 health points intact, you'd switch back to Nemo, drop to 3 health, then when you became the mouse you'd still only have 3/5 health spots filled - you'd have lost rather than gained. Frequent changing meant you were more often than not reliant on 3 or less health because the rest would be disappear when you switched.
As for Mickey Mania, I didn't realise that the last fight with Pete was added in some versions. The last level was definitely too long - it took longer than several of the others combined, and it sucked when you had to continue because it felt like you were being sent back miles.
I might sound negative on both, but I enjoyed my time with both of these games. I just thought they both had some obvious flaws.
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) Disney does feel like a very different animal than what my kids have become used to (they love Pixar + the new Disney Animation Studio stuff)
