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Sam Hill (23 KP) rated Loony Quest in Tabletop Games

Jun 21, 2019

Loony Quest

2015 | Action, Fantasy, Real-time

6.0

(4 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

Looney Quest is an odd game. You, and the other players, look at a game level, hen have a timed period to scribble a possible route onto a piece of acetate hitting trying to hit good things and miss traps/bombs/enemies. After he timed period you put your acetate over the level map and tot up your score.

Now the ideal market for this is younger kids, who want to participate and like scribbling on acetate, but the sheer quantity of token types and variety of effects is staggering and the kid young enough to like the scribbling is less keen on understanding what all these status effects mean.

Those of us old enough to click with all the token types, aree also going to find trying to draw what you remember to be a safe route achieving your targets dull.

Meanwhile the components are...ok, the tokens are nice thick card, but the acetate is a pain and (like most acetate screens) doesn't clean as easily as would be ideal, but the level maps are quite flimsy. If you try and replay it more than a couple of times they're going to get worn out fast.

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Michael Packner (32 KP) rated Metroid in Video Games

Jun 21, 2019

Metroid

Action/Adventure

8.0

(3 Ratings)

Video Game Rating

The music (6 more)

The variety of worlds to explore

The variety of weapons and upgrades to obtain

The innovative morphing ball ability of Samus

Finding out the hero was actually a heroine

A variety of unique enemies and bosses

Free roaming

A super redundant map (1 more)

Beyond extremely difficult

Nostalgia wants me to rate this game an 8 and the quality of the games that came after it in the series try to convince me to rate it even higher but I won't be tempted. The original Metroid deserves no higher than a 6. It had so many more positives than negatives but the negatives are pretty strong. This game paved the way for the beautiful thing the series became but If we're being completely honest, the original is a 6 at best and that's just facts. The map is horribly redundant and extremely difficult would be a massive understatement. I have to wonder if anyone actually ever beat this game without using the JUSTIN BAILEY code, and even with the code I still have to wonder if anyone really beat it. I surmise this game led to many broken controllers.