Fly Fighter
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| Publisher: Digital Magic | Sound: |
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| Year: 1989 | Difficulty: |
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| Genre: Action-platformer | Lastability: |
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| Number of players: 1 | Rating: |
3/10 | |
“They’re selling this?” And why am I downloading anything at all?
The original title was Scorpion, though I have no idea why it was changed. The premise of the game is simple: carve your way through fantastical environments by blasting everything in sight. Naturally, a princess is waiting for you at the end. And if you have a little patience and an “infinite lives” cheat up your sleeve, you’ll be treated to a fun epilogue.
Graphically, I quite like it (especially the bosses). Everything else is a disaster: collision issues, enemies that are impossible to avoid or hit, ear-splitting sound effects; it feels like the game was unfinished.
The music is taken from a movement of Gustav Holst’s symphonic suite The Planets, the one dedicated to Mars, which would later be reused for Star Wars.
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