Got a couple great candidates. Let's start with "Lost Word of Jenny" for Famicom. View attachment 128577
This is a poorly designed side scroller where you run around, kill enemies and pick up items in order to progress further in the game. Standard stuff, but there are a couple major issues: View attachment 128587
• While the game presents itself as this non-linear adventure where you get to pick the order of each stage; like Mega Man or Addams Familyon SNES, most of the levels are locked at the beginning and the game randomly decides the order in which you'll tackle each stage for you. The freedom of choice is an illusion. WHY START YOUR GAME OFF LIKE THAT!?!? Imagine playing "Mega Man 2" but you can only progress in some random order that the game has already decided for you. View attachment 128586
• The hit detection + Jenny's pitiful attack range are among some of the worst I've ever experienced in a video game. Expect to die a LOT due to the awful combat. While there IS a Spray item that sorta rectifies this issue, you can only obtain it after mindlessly kicking each area in the hopes that it will appear. View attachment 128590
There's also a dagger that proves useful against the "bosses", though you can only obtain it by methodically searching every pixel for letters that spell "Jenny". And of course, they're never in the same positions.
My biggest problems with this game are the enemies being bullet sponges and the fact that THEY can shoot through walls but YOU can't (These issues DID get fixed in the PAL version + Fester moves a bit faster). The game also fails to capture the spooky atmosphere of the IP its based on. Compare this to Addams Family Values for SNES and Genesis which, despite being a mediocre game, NAILED the visual presentation.
It's a repetitive and poorly designed side scroller where you fly around and collect items while avoiding dogs (Because Q-tarou was afraid of dogs in the source material). View attachment 128597
The controls are stiff. Combine this with the fact enemies move faster than you + they have a wider attack range than you, and this quickly becomes one of the most frustrating NES games you'll ever experience.
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I actually enjoyed Donald Land. Sure, it's not the greatest game (or even the best McDonald's game), but there are far worse side scrollers on the NES.
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The thing about Pac-Land on Famicom is... Well, there actually IS a way to play the game with standard controls.................but you gotta use the 2ND CONTROLLER (Yes, you read that right).
I actually played a bit of Fester's Quest on a call with my high school mate on Discord (we have an injoke about his dad looking like Uncle Fester) and it was unbearably hard. At least we got a good laugh out of it
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