FelixSH
(He/Him)
I'm playing StarTropics for the first time ever. It's fun, in the way NES top-down action games are, but it is also pretty brutal (especially the bosses) and sometimes just mean. In the first dungeon, there is a secret room with a potion(?). From that room, you get to another secret room with another potion. Here, you find another way to a third secret room. Only problem is, if you go into this room, you just die immediately. I decided to abuse save states after this.
The bosses are hard. The first one wasn't so bad, the torches make the fight pretty easy. But the Octopus is just obnoxious. He shoots stuff all the time, and the controls aren't the easiest to use, so have already died a bunch of times. Doesn't help that a hit takes of 1.5 hearts, with my maximum of 6 and actual amount of 3. Two hits until death isn't much.
It's still fun, but jest feels pretty clumsy in some ways. But I guess that's to be expected from an NES game.
The bosses are hard. The first one wasn't so bad, the torches make the fight pretty easy. But the Octopus is just obnoxious. He shoots stuff all the time, and the controls aren't the easiest to use, so have already died a bunch of times. Doesn't help that a hit takes of 1.5 hearts, with my maximum of 6 and actual amount of 3. Two hits until death isn't much.
It's still fun, but jest feels pretty clumsy in some ways. But I guess that's to be expected from an NES game.