Review: Captain Comic for the NES

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Review: Captain Comic for the NES

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I made a trip to a little variety store a few blocks away a while back, while looking through the old man's game selection I found The Adventures of Captain Comic. It was a nice baby blue cart and made by Color Dreams so I had to get it. That was about 3 months ago, I finally decided to play it and thought I should review it for you as well...So, here's my review. More like just whats good and bad, I will go into more detail with my future reviews.

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Pros:
-Once you actually have the blaster, it works well on airborn enemies.
-Upgrades do help, when you actually find them.
-Graphics are actually pretty good, for the most part.
-Controls are basic, but work.

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Cons:
-No recovery time when hit by an enemy, so half of your health can be taken away instantly.
-Can only shoot left or right and cant crouch, making it impossible to hit enemies close to the ground forcing you to jump over them, just to get hit by the flying enemies.
-Enemies randomly spawn. You can run and jump towards a platform and three enemies spawn while you are in mid air and kill you. So annoying.
-Most power ups only last thirty seconds at the most, making them basically useless.
-Enemies are also really dumb. During the first level alone, I saw over ten worms (yeah, worms are enemies) crawl right off platforms and die.
-Character feels too "loose". Its hard to jump accurately and even harder to dodge enemies.
-The music doesn't sound too awful, but its constantly looping which made me mute it and crank up some Tool.
-The game has no story, which is the most important part of a game for me. Im not sure if the story was explained in the manual or what, but they should have a bit in the game as well explaining it.
-Game doesnt save or have a password system so after you use all your lives, you're back at the title screen.

Overall, this game isn't the worst thing I have ever played, but it's more of a hassle than it is fun. I'd only check it out if you're curious, but play it on an emulator unless you can find it cheap, no need to waste money.

I give this game a 4/10
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It's worth mentioning that this is a conversion of a PC game for MS-DOS. Believe it or not, it's a huge upgrade, too. The graphics and sound are greatly improved, but the gameplay is virtually identical. There was also a sequel on DOS.
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flamepanther wrote:It's worth mentioning that this is a conversion of a PC game for MS-DOS. Believe it or not, it's a huge upgrade, too. The graphics and sound are greatly improved, but the gameplay is virtually identical. There was also a sequel on DOS.
I read that it was a port, I just never looked into it. Thanks for the info though :D
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nice little review cg5. keet it up. 8)
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Nice review!! 8)
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flamepanther wrote:It's worth mentioning that this is a conversion of a PC game for MS-DOS. Believe it or not, it's a huge upgrade, too. The graphics and sound are greatly improved, but the gameplay is virtually identical. There was also a sequel on DOS.
When I first saw this thread I was like "wait, Captian Comic for NES?" I used to play the DOS games back in the day. They were alright. They looked much better than that screenshot of the NES game.
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brunoafh wrote:When I first saw this thread I was like "wait, Captian Comic for NES?" I used to play the DOS games back in the day. They were alright. They looked much better than that screenshot of the NES game.
It's up to personal taste, I guess. The original EGA graphics were cleaner and more colorful, perhaps--although that's not by choice since they were stuck with the default EGA palette. They were also deliberately aping the graphics from Super Mario Bros. (1). The graphics in the Color Dreams version are more detailed, more original, and better shaded, so to me it's a great improvement. Your mileage may vary.
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