Dino Land
Where's Yoshi?Genre: arcade - pinball
Publisher: Renovation Products
Year: 1991
System: Genesis
Gameplay Score: 2
Gameplay Notes:
Extremely simple ameplay pinball mechanics. Extremely forgiving physics. Low frame rate. Camera movement can be jarring but it's not terrible. Ultimately, the one board just makes this a boring experience. Oh, and the extremely low difficulty level. I played for 25 minutes and never once did I come close to losing the ball. I stopped, not because I lost the ball, but because I softlocked the ball got stuck on a flat surface at the top of the board and that was that. I couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Level Design Score: 2
Level Design Notes:
Three difficulty levels, Expert, Intermediate, and Biginner. Yeah, it's Big Inner. So as near as I can tell there's only one board. It has two levels, although the top level doesn't seem to do much other than rack up points. On the bottom level, your objective is to hit a boss tile five or six times at which point you'll be transported to another board. That's just an open space with a large enemy and a small enemy and what looks like the kidnapped princess or whatever. If the small enemy gets to the princess, the board ends and presumably if you destroy both enemies then you win the game, but I don't have the patience to discover that. When you lose you go straight back to the first board.
Theme Score: 2
Theme Notes:
It's obviously there's a dinosaur theme with very cartoony looking squat dinos with no neck. I guess you're trying to save a princess or something based on that second board where she's screaming help. They used a fair amount of voice samples which adds to the strange setting.
Art Style Score: 1
Art Style Notes:
Extremely pixelated graphics. They are very few places on the screen where two pixels the same color next to one another. Everything is brown and green. Horrible frame rate
Audio Score: 2
Audio Notes:
Music isn't all that bad. Nothing laudable of course. The sound effects sound like microphone feedback noises.
Overall Score: 38
Review ID: 871
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