![]() I didn't even like Kid Icarus: Uprising, because after an initial honeymoon, it tied my fingers into knots with its ridiculous touchscreen-dependent control scheme. that ridiculously catchy theme music is gonna bore its way into your brain and never leave. The physics in the game are a little suspect- blowing on the bubble immediately changes its direction, which is not how things would work in real life- but the game is perfectly playable despite this. ![]() The take home is that if Kirby sucks, the star of Bubble Ghost blows. Usually that means blowing a bubble through tight corridors filled with sharp objects, but you can also blow out candles and scare serpents into submission by blowing into trumpets. You're a small spirit who's acquired Patrick Swayze powers, and can move corporeal objects around with sheer force of will. Well, life no longer makes sense, but at least I can take solace in Bubble Ghost, a fun puzzle game that's like nothing else on the Game Boy. Pepper that really does taste like regular Dr. Black is white! Right is left! Dogs and cats, living together! Bill Murray playing Garfield in a movie after complaining that his character in the Ghostbusters cartoon sounded too much like Garfield! A Diet Dr. Unbelievably, Bubble Ghost actually IS pretty good, calling my whole perception of reality into question. You know, the same company that published NES games which were somehow more primitive than their Atari 2600 counterparts. I'd heard positive things about this game, but refused to believe them, because it was released by Pony Canyon. It will take the patience of Job and the willpower of mighty Hercules to stay interested in Fish Dude long enough for the lead character to get any larger. You have to eat 45 fish to get that far, while in Shark! Shark!, your fish started growing after munching three or four of them. To quote Alex Winter in Freaked, "Boo, dude!"ĮDIT: I learned (from a VGJunk review I hadn't even realized I read!) that your fish dude DOES grow in size after about three stages. ![]() You will get bored in a hurry, and you will want to throw your GameBoy into a river when you hear the tiresome jingle that plays each time you're given a new life, or start a new stage, or the game catches you scratching your nose. Forget about turning the tables on these apex predators, because you won't grow in size no matter how many fish you eat. While you're hunting for dinner, larger, balloon-shaped fish will be hunting for you, and have a disconcerting habit of catching you while you're attempting to digest minnows. It was kind of like Katamari Damacy, except underwater and more pixelated.Īnyway, Fish Dude is NOT the Shark! Shark! revival it appeared to be in those advertisements, but a lame aquatic take on Pac-Man, where you have to chase tiny fish and hammer the fire button to chew them. The initial descriptions made it sound like a revival of the clever Intellivision game Shark! Shark!, where you were a tiny guppy that gobbled up smaller fish to grow in size, eventually gaining the girth to take on more threatening prey. I was looking forward to this one when it was first announced in GamePro, and frankly, I'm convinced that I was the only teenager who was. If you were wondering about the change in tone, you can thank Mike and his hard lemonade for that. ![]() Here now are four such games, along with a sequel to an early Nintendo release that goes a long way toward improving the original.īy the way, these reviews are a little more. possibly because its limited hardware encouraged developers to think outside the front-loading grey box and try new ideas, rather than lean on the scroll/boss formula that was so common on the NES. I've discovered that it has the peculiar power to entertain in spite of its many handicaps. The original Game Boy was never my cup of tea, but I've decided to give the system another chance after all these years.
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