Posted By
Csabo
on 2014-09-28
16:19:15
|  Re: What are the most ridiculously hard games for the COMMODORE PLUS 4?
Gotta strongly disagree with both Kikstart and Adventures In Time.
Kikstart is actually a really good example of how to do learning curves and level design just right. The game itself is near perfect, can't think of a single thing that would need fixing or improvement. You can easily finish the first level with little practice (if not on first try!), and it only gets easier from then on. (That's the key to any game: let the first few levels give you instant gratification and suck you in, then progressively get harder. Then hand over your credit card to buy gems. Oh wait, that's another platform  ) In terms of level design, "all the tricks" are not given away too quickly, you will be encountering new obstacles even on later levels.
Adventures In Time: pretty good controls. The way player death is handled is also very good: you get a short period of invulnerability. (This is pretty standard nowadays, but there are few old games that have this.) This means there's no obstacle you cannot pass - at most, you just lose one life. There's tons of games where a "hard part" will just block you "forever", frustration time!
Spiky Harold - kinda agree. It's hard, especially timing the jumps. Though on the other hand, it is a slow paced game, the enemies also move slow. So it's not as bad as some others.
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