mysticspikeis the latest release in a long line of action platformers witha twist.
Teh series started out as Spike, an old school side scrolling game for the SMS that never got very popular. The second incarnation was the mysticspike for 3d0 and featued specail enhanced features for the CD format like cd audio and scrolling backgrounds. Then the developrs decided to go ahead and release a port of the original spike for 32X (of all consoles) called spikage. unfortunatley for the devs the game bombed no matter what platform it ws released on. So when the Wii came out they decided to give the original a second chance, since they had the forsight to release a stripped down version for the Trubo Grafix Mysticspike got second chance as a Wii VC relese.
grafix. 7.5
The game looked stunningly fantastic on the surface when it was on 3D0, it had animated backgrounds and a nice 3d effect. unfortunately the TG16 versions was flat and very pixalated and very ugly to look at, the managaed to get those bobbing parasite animations in the game for the title screan so that redeemed the gfx just a tad.
Sound 2.5
ugh, the 3D0 had annouying voice acting and some really crappy soundtracks, so it was understandable that the tg16 port had crappy BGm and muffled voices.
Game Play 1.5
to this day nobody can figure out what the point to the game is so the gameplay just feels wrong. Its almost as bad as that ET game for 2600 but not quit as memorable.
replay value 6.5
there is some humor to the game and if you ever do manage to get past all its flaws it can be mildy entertaining at times. the flaws do outway the good traits so the humor alone may not be enough to go back and give it a second chance.
ovar all. 6.5
overall none can figure this game out, but for somereason it has just enough funny elements to make you wanna check it out, just not enough to warrant the 600 Wii points it would normally cost, but Nintendo was nice enough to include it as a freebie to all who downloaded the internet channel and if you visited NWR you would unlock the game in int entirety.
overal venture into this at your own risk, if you can figure out how to make it work you might get something out of it if not pass on this altogether.
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