tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post5055424697271751779..comments2024-03-28T09:33:57.980+00:00Comments on Super Adventures in Gaming: Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole (Genesis/Mega Drive) - ReplayRay Hardgrithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18436491500347661133noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-54875031003226708452023-10-15T13:37:04.149+01:002023-10-15T13:37:04.149+01:00landstalker is the best game I have played. It...landstalker is the best game I have played. It's a shame there isn't a second partAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-18311631400646004342023-02-08T12:48:47.907+00:002023-02-08T12:48:47.907+00:00best way o play this is on an emu with a analog co...best way o play this is on an emu with a analog controller and save state much better!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-61566419131475708462020-08-02T07:06:05.589+01:002020-08-02T07:06:05.589+01:00This game oozes charm but man the controls look li...This game oozes charm but man the controls look like I wouldn’t be able to deal. <br />As always a great review. Love the GIFs! Johnny Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16368626486835182113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-28628962373025730472020-08-02T07:03:02.010+01:002020-08-02T07:03:02.010+01:00I have the same problem with isometric games. I a...I have the same problem with isometric games. I always end up getting fed up with the perspective. (I also gave up on Lumo after a while)Johnny Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16368626486835182113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-68200839861624122262020-07-28T23:00:28.643+01:002020-07-28T23:00:28.643+01:00Hey, you really did a replay of Landstalker, that&...Hey, you really did a replay of Landstalker, that's awesome!<br />I gave this game my best shot on the Mega Drive Classics Collection and it was just so charming that I had to soldier on despite its huge flaws. Sorry to say, the isometric madness doesn't get any better. The ball-and-spike puzzles will give you tears of despair even if you're quickloading save states - I can't imagine how anyone got far in this in the old days.<br />But it can just be so anachronistic. How come as soon as you rescue the girl from the tribespeople who wanted to murder her, everyone is suddenly best friends? Or the time you reach a boss at the end of a dungeon, and she pushes the wrong button in her intro cutscene and accidentally kills herself instead of you? Or the time your nemeses _just_ beat you to a riverside mcguffin by scooting in on a raft from side left, only for the current to just continue washing them out to sea before they can do anything at all?<br />It's a pain to move, it's a pain to navigate, the puzzles are inscrutable and the combat is too (especially with harder enemies which appear to be just random whether attacking them will hurt them or hurt you). But it's got real heart, and ambition. I never knew the MD had games like this in the 90s. Ollienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-58374723989951523172020-07-24T18:16:19.067+01:002020-07-24T18:16:19.067+01:00I've tried to get into this a few different ti...I've tried to get into this a few different times over the years, and my experience was always pretty much the same as yours. It's very charming, with nice graphics and sound and a likable roguish protagonist. It's just that the game does everything it can to be incredibly annoying to play. Isometric platforming is bad enough at the best of times, but when you saddle it with a complete lack of height indicators and the world's worst controls, it becomes a bit like trying to navigate an M.C. Escher drawing while drunk. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-78104414547512806582020-07-23T23:39:16.644+01:002020-07-23T23:39:16.644+01:00You can argue about whether the Mega Drive or SNES...<i>You can argue about whether the Mega Drive or SNES is the better console, but if you're judging them on the quantity of action adventures and RPGs then the SNES is the unambiguous winner.</i><br /><br />Well, yes, but if you're European then it's about equal because most of the SNES rpgs didn't come out here, and almost all of the Mega Drive ones did.<br /><br />Sadly, isometric controls haven't improved in the 27 (!) years since <i>Landstalker</i>. I gave up on <i>Lumo</i> because of a jumping puzzle that was made annoyingly difficult because the game has full analogue movement, rather than locking the character to four or eight directions, as would have been sensible.<br /><br />Yes, I'm still bitter.thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.com