Palamedes
Reviewed by Ty Massei
Graphics: 2.5 out of 10
Sound: 3 out of 10
Gameplay: 3.5 out of 10
Hardness factor: 6 out of 10
Overall: 3 out of 10
Graphics: The graphics were way too childish for my taste. The game's
graphics were way too bright and it was kind of distracting. There weren't
any cool effects and the quality wasn't that great either.
Sound: The music was okay, but still way too childish. It wasn't distracting,
but it didn't help either. The quality was pretty low for an NES game and
the song(s) were repetitive.
Gameplay: A pretty bad puzzle game for the NES. You play as some little
kid who has the ability to shoot dominoes. Anyway, in the game, a row of
blocks comes down every five seconds or so. You are supposed to match up
the dominoes so blocks can disappear. Of course, that would be too easy, so
you also have to make the blocks disappear in a certain order so a whole
row or two will disappear, therefore giving you much needed time. There
are three modes in this game. In 1 player you are just supposed to clear a
certain amount of blocks. In 2 player, you go against a friend (like Bubble
Bobble, the more blocks you make disappear the more add onto your
friends screen) and there's also a tournament mode which is the same
thing only with a computer player.
Hardness factor: This game was pretty hard since there are six dominos
you have to cycle through. There are a ton of different combos that you
can get, but I really couldn't figure it out. If you just try to clear the
screen one shape at a time, you'll fail.
Overall: 3 out of 10. This game was just kind of lame. The graphics and
sound were too childish, and the gameplay wasn't exactly original. They
should have worked on just about everything before they decided to
ship this game out.