This is pretty amazing! It also shows what the Scorpion engine is, already, capable of, but also pretty much guarantees that Reassembler's project will be successful. Hope you will continue your talents on other Amiga projects (Revenge of Shinobi please )
Interesting. Any differences with the release from 2004? The jumping should really be fixed though, it keeps me from playing it; which is a shame really. Also the sound effects seem, weirdly 'soft' distorted? Sound volume seems also very low (at least on Vice).
I just discovered this. Absolutely amazing! The fact that you included Maniacs of Noise's (Jeroen Tel) Commodore 64 SID remix of Turbo Outrun as it's title tune is the absolute icing on the cake!
Great little title, plays well, looks great! two things though, maybe for a small update in the future: A picked up 'special power' disappears as soon as you go through a door. And when you get hit the sprite flickers on/ off (as many games do ofcourse), but it can be a bit confusing because the sprite is tiny. Maybe color cycling instead? Anyways, congratulations!
Very cool. Played it a bit; feels nice and responsive. One thing though: the collectable objects are sometimes very hard to see; especially the grenades (?). Could do with better contrasting colours with the various backgrounds (yellow maybe?). Also deserves a few more levels I think. Congrats on the release though! :)
'Retro-gaming' is far more then merely nostalgic feelings. Creating games within the limitations and constraints of old systems stimulates the creativity (something often lacking in in modern gaming). Be it music, game design or (pixel) art. The final product is therefore more than just a (simple) game. It's an expression of passion; a combination of ingenuity and art that goes beyond a longing for the past.
One thing I noticed when playing this nice puzzler, is that It feels like the Ambulance should be actually white, and other cars (that are now white) light grey instead of the other way round. Makes more sense to have the focus that way on your ambulance.
I do hope it will have the energy depletion model like Vampire; it's instant death now :)) . Btw if you want some 'box art' at some point; let me know.
Going the 'Return to Monkey Island ' route so to speak :). Nice. I think I got a bit confused though. I thought this was going to be 'simply' a conversion of the ZX Spectrum game 'Phantomas Tales 4 Severin Sewers' (with the sprite being swapped for the C64 one). But your game looks far different (and better !). Really looking forward to this. Hopefully it will be a very nice (big) map, like Vampire (for me to draw ofcourse:) ).
With the recent release of the ZX Spectrum version, I wondered if we ever would get it for C64 as I played Vampire (Phantomas 2) to death back in the day. And it even has the 'alternative' C64 sprite! Very Cool! was hoping for a sequel on C64 since Phantomas: Saga Infinity was released for MSX in 2006 (doesn't that make this part IV?).
This looks fantastic! With the Scorpion Engine still in development, I hope things like bob / sprite scaling and zooming will be introduced as well as things like 'rope physics'. I discussed this over at BitBeamCannon, and they will probably look into it. Back to topic; hopefully CDDA tracks will be supported in the future, as this really screams a CD32 version; its that good!
Also, is a chance there will also be a version after this based on the MSX release of 'Vampire Killer'? I always preferred that one over CastleVania on NES; it's got a bit more exploring.
Just played this for the first time! Looks and feels marvellous! One thing though: When pressing 'up' and 'fire-for-up' simultaneously nothing happens. This was also the case with Sam's Journey and some other titles. In practice I use an (Xbox) controller with Vice and a fire button to jump / go up. It happens often that both are pressed during play, but then jump does not register.
Also (and I don't know yet if there is a reason for it later on for some extra weapon), but could fire be simply pressed without having to press it again for slashing?
This, ofcourse, is awesome! On a personal level I would prefer MSX2's 'Vampire Killer' over the game-layout of ' CastleVania' though. But hey some people are never satisfied.. Anyways, Looks brilliant already! :)
is there some art already? 