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[V4NT0M]

I gave this a go today and I'm a little confused, there seem to be a lot of good reviews out there and a lot of people recommending it. I don't seem to "get" it, to me it just seems like an incredibly simple platformer with spectrum graphics and extremely repetitive music.

Anyone got any insight?

 

[V4NT0M]

I'm up to chapter 21 and I can agree it gets damn tough at times; shouting at the tv hard.
I still keep coming back to it though...

I guess it's probably just not my cup of tea, I gave it another go last night to see if some of the other levels made is more interesting for me but I was still pretty unimpressed. From what you guys say the fun is in the difficulty?

I just found it frustrating to a fault, sure easy games are no fun but being difficult for difficult's sake doesn't do it for me. I like there to be tricks and clever game mechanics that make it hard rather than just adding more obstacles.

such a fantastic unique game.

That's another thing, I didn't see anything unique about it at all, not one part of it stood out for me from the millions of commercial and home brew platformers out there.

Graphics - Extremely Basic
Music - Abhorrent
Game mechanics - Run and jump
Level design - Difficult rather than clever

Especially when there are such brilliant platformers out there already like braid.

 

[V4NT0M]

the site is blocked

Try this: http://mirror.csignal.org/uploads/n_v1pc.zip

Braid is spectacularly good though, and I'd have that over N+ any day.

If only there were more levels.