Nintama Rantarou for SFC
Review #2250
Nintama Rantarou
Looks like Goemon, plays like Home Alone
Gameplay
Long unskippable cutscenes! Over 5 mins before you gain control.
Floaty, laggy controls. Barely playable.
Stuttering performance and pervasive slowdown.
Two weapons - sword or shurikens. Shuriken moves about as fast as you do. Switch between by pressing X
Buggy. Can't run up slopes sometimes and switching doesn't work while you're in the air.
Level Design
Bizarre. The game begins with a series of mini games in a lengthy tutorial:
Hogan's Alley as a platformer (shoot shurikens)
Button mashing runner
Climb up the walls
Crouch and crawl
Then you get a couple of actual levels with standard platforming fare but with almost no enemies.
Then it's back to more tutorials. There's no save so you'll have to do this every time you play! No thanks.
Theme
Silly kid ninja hijinks. Very cute and fun. Reminds me of early 90s cartoons like Rugrats.
Art Style
Cute sprites with nice animation.
Bright and colorful.
Incredible simple backgrounds look like the stuff in THQ or Nova games!
Looks ok in still but horrible in movement. Horrific performance. The graphics are moving at super slow frame rate. Stuttered, jilted movement. Hard to look at.
Audio
Discount Goemon Japanese music. No sound effects except for an awful jumping sound.
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