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Vigilante (TurboGrafx 16)

boxart_vigilante.jpg Platform TurboGrafx 16
Genre Arcade
Publisher Hudson
Points 500
Rating 4 / 10

Review

This is the TurboGrafx16 port of the arcade game of the same name. Your girlfriend, Madonna, has been kidnapped by the nefarious gang, the Skinheads. Now you must fight your way through their ranks to save her.

It has decent graphics, I will give it that, and it moves smoothly. The sprites not only are colored well enough, but it does have some idea of shading too. However, the backgrounds are pretty dull looking, which clashes somewhat with the sprites. As for ear pleasing, this game is not, the music, if even, is difficult to hear at normal volume, while the sound effects are quite loud and uninteresting. Playing this game is harder than listening to it. Control is terrible, it is difficult, if not impossible to have the character to do multiple things, mostly, combining the hard to control jump with anything else of the game’s limited moveset. Stages are faced by walking from left to right, while enemies will come at you from different sides, with you simply having the character turn to face them and hit them. Easy? Wrong, even the weakest villians will sap large portions of you health, and simply beating one without enough time to react to another is a recurring theme in this game.

Don’t waste your 600 points like I had, get something else instead.

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