Hellfire for PCE CD
Review #11049
Hellfire
CD soundtrack and empty space
Gameplay
Big upgrade from the Genesis version. The slowdown is gone, movement is much faster, and the large sprite is less of an issue. Overall it plays well and can be fun at times. More on that later.
Four main weapons (up/down, back, forward, and X) can be cycled through at will.
Level Design
Oh these stages? Who designed these? There are long stretches of nothing on screen. You'll kill a small wave of enemies and wait 3-5 seconds anything to happen! It's insane.
Slow and mostly boring.
Theme
The addition of long beautiful cutscenes certainly spice things up. They have seemingly nothing to do with the game but hey, cute girls in space suits, right?
Art Style
Huge chunky and rounded sprites. Looks almost like an Amiga title.
Some interesting elements here and then but the backgrounds are generally just a black screen.
In fact the nice looking sprites feel like they were ripped from a different game than the drab, flat and boring backgrounds.
Audio
Holy smokes! This is what a CD port should do with its music. It's not my personal favorite style of music - some harder guitar would be welcome here - but man oh man is it beautiful. The sounds are meh, but what a soundtrack.
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