Guess Who's Back......Evan's Back

Welcome back. It's August so I know I'm late but better late than never. Either way I've been slacking. Both in the Quantity of my blog post and Quality.
Yeah I feel I need an improvement. So I'm gonna try the best I can to get better at these reviews. Make them more entertaining and more descriptive. It's still relatively early in the series (I mean I've only done like 5 reviews) so there's plenty of time for improvement. Games are a big part of my life and I feel I could talk about them much better than I've done in the last few reviews.
On another note I have reviews #6-9 planned out and have had them planned out for some time now.

6-Front Line (Atari 2600)
7-Sonic Labyrinth (Game Gear)
8-Kirby's Dreamland (Gameboy)
9-Super Smash Bros. (N64)

As for the 10th I know what I'm gonna do for it but it's a surprise. :p
Anyway hope you enjoy the new content. Thanks for reading, peace.

Retro Reviews will Return in July

The Title says it all. I will return in July due to the fact i want to focus on other projects. Like my youtube channel, sneslper233. Or some of my other blogs. Thanks for understanding.

Gameboy/Gameboy Color Review List

This is a list of all my Gameboy and Gameboy Color Reviews. I'll leave a link to each review and as I review more games I'll update the list. Thanks

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#1-Castlevania The Adventure(Gameboy)

Castlevania The Adventure-Retro Review #5-Gameboy Review #1

At least the box art is cool.,

Good God, this game. Ugh, why now. 
I mean you though uncanny x-men was bad. This is much worse.
I mean that sincerely. I can't believe this game has the audacity to even be a part of the same franchise as such classics like the original Castlevania, and Super Castlevania.
I mean it this is so far the second worst thing I've ever had to review, only behind Wizard of Oz on the SNES. 
What are we waiting for let's get to the actual game.  

Story
Back in the beginning of the gameboys life span a very popular trend was to take a popular NES game and make it portable. Megaman, bubble bobble, and even Mario are a few examples of this.
Sometimes they would be advertised as remakes or completely different game. Since the gameboy had more limitations than the NES they would sometimes have to completely redesign the game. 
Castlevania The Adventure is Konamis attempt to bringing the classic game to a portable system. 
Of course though they had to completely redesign it and make a completely new game. 
I wouldn't mind so much except this game sucks as I mentioned multiple times.
In this game you play as Christopher Belmont and like in the original your goal is to defeat Dracula.
This was made shortly after Castlevania 2 and since konami didn't pay vey much attention to the timeline back then if your trying to play through the castlevania games in chronological order then it might get messy. 
But let's get into the actual game. 

Gameplay
The gameplay here does everything wrong. Christopher moves so slow that it's excruciating. No joke. Because of the slow pace of the game everything just seems so tedious and monotonous. Pretty much all you do in this game is walk around, kill stuff, and occasionally climb up stuff. 
Now yes all you really did in the original castlevania was walk and kill stuff but that game was fast paced and fun, this........this is awfully boring and tedious. 
The controls suck as well. It's just so awkward moving Christopher around. 
Jumping is pain as well. You got to be so precise and it's just awful. Yes, the controls are even 
worse then the original. Way worse. In fact this is probably the worst controlling game in the castlevania series. 
It's also unfair. Sometimes when you are climbing up a rope and eyeball will fall down while your on the rope and you have no time to dodge. But that's only one example. Controls also cause a few cheap moments since Christopher moves so slowly. 
The level design is also bland and boring.
Overall this is a monotonous, tedious and unfair games

Gameplay Score-2.5/10


Sound
The sound is ok. The music in this game is pretty good. Maybe it's not as good as the original but that doesn't matter. 
The music is still good and enjoyable to listen to.

Sound Score-7/10

Graphics

 For a gameboy game it looks pretty good. Nothing to special but it is nicely detailed and looks pretty nice. Doesn't quit capture the gothic feel of the original but I it doesn't matter.

Graphics Score-7/10

Enjoyment

This game was not enjoyable at all. I hated it. From the characters monotonous controls to the poor level design to the cheap difficulty. This game suck. It's awful. Absolutely awful. There just nothing else that can be said about it. Screw this game.

Enjoyment Score-3/20

Overall-19.5/50 

39%.   F

Yeah. This game definitely deserves that score. It only barely got a higher score than a Wizard of Oz. Wizard of Oz had a score of 16/50 which is a 32%(I may be wrong about the score wizard of Oz got as I'm mostly remembering off the top of my head). I'm pretty sure this game would be the same score as wizard of Oz if it wasn't for me giving it higher scores in the graphics and sound category than wizard of Oz. Yeah this game is bad. But it's not wizard of Oz bad. 

With that said thank you for reading and sorry this took so long to post. I've been busy with a few projects for YouTube. 

I may just decide to screw the schedule and post these blog post whenever I finish one, but for now I'll keep trying to get one out every week. 

With that said see you next Friday.

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Uncanny X-Men-Retro Review #4-NES Review #2

Ah fudge. Well looks as if I have no choice. I have to review this game. This game sucks ,it straight up sucks. This game for those of you unaware was made by LJN made infamous by a certain Angry Video Game Nerd for producing low quality movie tie in games for the NES and other consoles around at that time. Now I don't think LJN completely deserves their awful reputation. Of coarse they do make a lot of crap like this but a lot of their games are just plain and mediocre not really bad. At 

least that's how I see it.

Without a doubt though this is their worst game. It is absolutely horrendous. 

Say what you want about Back to The Future, Jaws, or Beetlejuice this is LJN's Worst game. 

Let's dive in  to the uncanny x-men shall we.

Story

I don't know. I don't care.

All I can say is that you have the choice to play as 6 x-men

Cyclops, iceman, wolverine, storm, colossus and night crawler.

You gotta stop magneto and save the world. I'm sure there's more info in the manual but really I don't care enough to read it. 

But whatever what's get into what actually makes this game a piece of crap.

Gameplay

The gameplay for Uncanny X-Men uses a top-down perspective. 

You go through the level trying to get to the end and while your at it kick some bad guy butt.

Sounds simple enough. How did they screw it up you ask. 

Well let me tell you. 

First the level design is awful. It's not fun or interesting or charming or anything. It's bland and poorly designed.

Second the AI. In this game when you have the option to play with somebody else(that is if you can

actually find somebody to play this crap with you)

Whenever you don't have a second player around the game gives you an computer player to help you

 out. This would be fine and dandy if the AI wasn't so bad. This computer character does nothing to 

help. In fact in the first few seconds he'll either die or get stuck. He doesn't even try to attack 

enemies. He/she is absolutely pointless.  

Third is the character. The characters in this game are all the same.

Well I shouldn't say they are all the same. There are two types of characters.

Type A:Physical Attackers

Examples:Wolverine, colossus, and night crawler

Type B:Long Range Attackers

Examples:Cyclopes, Storm, and Iceman.

All the type A characters are exactly the same and all the type B characters are exactly the same.  Ok, there's a few exceptions for example night crawler can walk through solid objects but that's not enough. There needs to be more to not make make every character look like a clone. 

They even give you different stats for each character on the character selection screen.

Those stats are complete lies just to make it look like the characters are different.

So there you have it. Bad A.I, Bad level design, bad design in general. It suck

Gameplay Score-4/10

Sound

Honestly nothing in this game in terms of sound is memorable.

Nothing good nor nothing bad.

Sound Score-5/10

Graphics

The graphics are bad. 

The colors are so bland and everything just looks awful(Even by NES standards)

Not a whole lot to say here.

Graphics Score-4/10

Enjoyment

I really don't enjoy this game a whole lot. 

Not the worst game but not really that good either. 

It's bad but with a few fixes it could land on the meh side of things. 

Enjoyment Score-8.5/20

Overall-21.5/50

43%.    F

So yeah that's uncanny x-men on NES. 

Bad game but with a few fixes could be raised to a D or even a C.

But to bad you can't fix products that were released all the way back in the 80s. 

I honestly didn't expect to get this review done so early so I guess this Friday I'll have another review up. 

That one will be part of the same franchise as a previous game I already played but is not any where as good.

See you then.

Update-April 21st 2015

It's been awhile hasn't it. Sorry for the lack of updates I just have a lot of crap going on in my life. But most of it is taking care of so I'm gonna start opting more regularly.
Every Friday will be a new post. Weather it's a retro review or a top list or just something else.
So this Friday I should have my uncanny x-men review done.
I am also working on reviews for Castlevania The adventure, Front Line, and The original Super Smash Bros.

I'm also gonna be doing a review on Shovel Knight(Not a retro game but it's retro style so...)

Anyway see you guys soon.

N64 Review List

Hello this is a list of all the Nintendo 64 games I have Reviewed up to this point. As I review more N64 games more games will be added to this list. I list the games in alphabetical order with links to the actual review. Hope you enjoy.

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#1-Pokemon Snap