[Coco] Mini review: castle throughlybad (worst games ever)

[Nick Marentes]

On 26/01/2015 4:06 PM, Willard Goosey wrote:
> Inspired by the recent "Worst games ever" thread I decided to try some of these games. I stink at most games but if the game already stinks, maybe that's alright?
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> So, first on the menu, Castle Tharoggad.
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> Ok, first. I don't even want to talk about DofD. I know this was declared to be the successor to DoD and I love DoD but I stink at it.
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> First there's the awkward mouse interface. Mostly awkward at the time just because it was different. Now I call it awkward mostly because it doesn't support the hi-res mouse adapter. It tends to ignore your clicks when it's not your turn, something else gamers weren't used to. I kind of prefer it. I tend to madly click attack, then realize I should move and click a move about the time my turn comes up. So I move instead of standing there and getting killed!
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> Which leads me to the heatbeat. I don't care for the heatbeat mechanism. Didn't like it in DoD and I don't like it in CT. I'd much rather have a hard number of hit points to watch over.
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> The actions are very limited. Not a lot of complexity there.
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> The graphics aren't that great. The game certainty doesn't push the coco3 to it limits there. That said the happy smiley monsters do amuse me. A little shading would have gone a long way...
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> The real kick in the pants is its idea of saving the game: "here write down these numbers for me!"  Wow. At least it saved some effort for whoever patched CT to run from disk, they didn't have to try to patch in a disk routine. :-)
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> So, as a stand-alone intro-to-role-playing game? Not totally horrible. A tolerable way to burn a few hours. Worthy sequel to DoD? Never in a million years!
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> Willard
> Sent from Samsung tablet
>


Good mini review for what appears to be a crap game.

I wonder, did the original author of DofD also creat this? If so, what 
went wrong?

I don't imagine it is since the quality of the game is so bad in 
comparison. It doesn't even nudge the CoCo3's capabilities.

Nick