How Is Your SNES Gaming Going?

[Tanooki]

Agreed very tricky. I've tried my best off and on since the 90s to get into both Altered Space on GB and Solstice and I just can't play them. The who isometric thing just screws with me far too much to have any kind of precision with jumping, shooting moving targets, just timing in general I gave up on it. I know I'd love such things if they handled better but it's probably why the style basically died off.

[nightrnr]

That does explain the scarcity of the subgenre, as most feel the same. I was trying to think of more with the same play style and all I really come up with is Sonic 3D Blast.

On an unrelated note,
Does anyone know if Retro Duo/Retro-bit controllers work on real SNES systems? I picked up a couple at a thrift store just for the heck of it, but they don't seem to work with any system I have (not that those controllers are very good to begin with).

[TSTR]

That does explain the scarcity of the subgenre, as most feel the same. I was trying to think of more with the same play style and all I really come up with is Sonic 3D Blast.

Snake Rattle 'n' Roll?

[Tanooki]

Well that might work, but it's kind of pushing it perhaps as much as marble madness does or for that matter the Atari(arcade) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom mining car stages. There's quite a few isometric games out there, but the Solstice(trio) style of games out of Sony they're unique. Slow, plodding, very specific, dodgy controls, and hard to hit enemies. The others, even Sonic 3D Blast at least move faster, smoother, and are easier to hit stuff and not run into stupid crap by accident.

[Sarge]

It's much more exploratory, but Scurge: Hive is an isometric Metroid-like. Good stuff.

[Exhuminator]

Scurge: Hive is an isometric Metroid-like. Good stuff.

I'd say Scurge is "decent". I was very annoyed that it took one of the worst ideas from Metroid Prime 2 and wrapped the whole game around it; your life is constantly draining if you're not in "safe" zones. And the last boss is just ridiculously hard. It's not a terrible game or anything, I'd say 6.5/10.

[Sarge]

I know we eat hard games for lunch, we just like different ones.

I thought it was 8.0 territory, but I had less issue with the draining life (I thought I would hate it more) and the isometric viewpoint than most.

I agree that the last boss was completely ridiculous, though. Most of the game was very well balanced until that point.

[SNESdrunk]

I don't suppose anyone has any inkling why Super Back to the Future II never left Japan? Was it because LJN had exclusive publishing rights? Something to do with the publisher Toshiba EMI not being able to find an NA counterpart?

[alienjesus]

I don't suppose anyone has any inkling why Super Back to the Future II never left Japan? Was it because LJN had exclusive publishing rights? Something to do with the publisher Toshiba EMI not being able to find an NA counterpart?

Probably something to do with licensing. Not only did LJN have the Back to the Future rights at some point for the NES releases, but Imageworks and/or Arena Entertainment did at some point too, as they released Back to the Future III on Mega Drive/Genesis and basically all European home computers of the time. Shame it was awful!

[Ack]

Played through Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on Wednesday while I was working from home. That's all four SNES Mortal Kombats done. I'm very happy to have those games behind me. I hope to finally finish off all the NTSC-U fighters this year, and this leaves me only three to go.