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Post by Discoalucard on Feb 15, 2015 22:29:47 GMT -5
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Post by alphex on Feb 15, 2015 23:25:19 GMT -5
I got that one as part of a Gremlin compilation (Zool 2 and Slipstream 5000 are the games that got the most attention) - I am kinda glad that this wasn't yet another review that calls the game great, since I never had much fun with it. The labyrinths always made me feel super lost, and not the good "wow, this game is huge! I feel like exploring new worlds all the time!"-lost. The platforming for these was also imprecise and just plain unfun. The mini games also seemed super confusing, since most of them gave no indication on what to do at all.
So I pretty much agree with the article 100%.
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Post by elektrolurch on Feb 16, 2015 5:13:52 GMT -5
I think i got this one together with Slipstream5000 as well back in the day. I do not remember tooo much about it, other than it looking great. I think i never got anywhere.Nice to read an article about it, anyways. And I didnt even know this game has a good reputation...
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Post by nickz on Feb 16, 2015 11:06:22 GMT -5
Oh my! I got this mixed up with Brain Dead 13 once. I remember seeing the scene where the red dude pulls the shortest straw at one of those old store booths that used to have systems out for customers to play and demo various games. I didn't know that this was it until just now after reading the article.
Anyway, this was interesting. I might have to play this one sometime.
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Post by TheChosen on Feb 19, 2015 2:51:16 GMT -5
I really like Litil Divil. I think its one of the two games on CD-i worth playing and actually justifies a purchase of cd32. It is all about presentation, but I like the idea of playing an interactive cartoon.
I also remember this from a Finnish tv-show, Game Over. It was kind of a game show where people would try to beat certain parts of a videogame for prizes and in-between there was standard videogame news and hype. What was weird and challenging about this was that you could also participate from your home via a phone, as all the inputs were done with it, and even the studio participants had to play using a phone. Litil Divil was one of those games they played (CD-i version, as I remember them showing a cutscene.), as well as some CD-i minigolf game and even Charles Barkley Shut Up & Jam.
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Post by gzegzolka on Feb 19, 2015 7:41:41 GMT -5
Yeah, here in Poland we can play different Hugo the troll games via phone when I was a kid. And so my first idea about Litil Divil was as a Hugo clone. Game play bit similar, but is more complicated, and You know it's about hell and demons rather than one cherfull troll trying to rescue his familly. I do not understood why on cd32 there was no intro, console was capabele of doing that. I always quit playing in on level 3, there was too much of that long boring maze and not enough rooms to play mini-games. First level was okay, I think, good amount of rooms to solve puzzles and some dungeon maze to explore. Also puzzles were not that hard as on other levels.
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Post by heliorao on Feb 21, 2015 14:21:11 GMT -5
steam key giveaway now at indiegala.com
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Post by Woody Alien on Feb 24, 2015 8:55:23 GMT -5
I also remember this from a Finnish tv-show, Game Over. It was kind of a game show where people would try to beat certain parts of a videogame for prizes and in-between there was standard videogame news and hype. What was weird and challenging about this was that you could also participate from your home via a phone, as all the inputs were done with it, and even the studio participants had to play using a phone. Litil Divil was one of those games they played (CD-i version, as I remember them showing a cutscene.), as well as some CD-i minigolf game and even Charles Barkley Shut Up & Jam. We had these phone-controlled games in Italy in the mid-90s as well. And there were quite a few: "Pinguino Joe" starring a penguin; "Joe Razz", about a time-traveling guy; "Stellaris", an interactive cartoon with a boy and girl which was also released as a stand-alone PC game. But the most famous and longer-lived was "The Lion Trophy Show", which starred the mascot of the "Lion" snacks (an anthropomorphic lion), which wasn't a part of a larger program, but had its own space on TV. It went on from 1994 to 2000 and later on introduced things such as a plot (the usual "damsel in distress" stuff) and the time travel element. Here's an example of the gameplay from an early episode:
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Post by TheChosen on Feb 24, 2015 11:59:02 GMT -5
Amazing! I had no idea this kind of stuff was in other countries as well. Quality wise looks like a game you'd find on a DVD, but I guess for 1995 it looks great.
We did have Lion bars here by the way. I wonder if they still do...have to grab some next time I'll go to the store.
I looked up for some footage for Game Over and fortunately there's plenty of it on Youtube. The show is bit more bonkers than I remembered; it all starts out with early 90's cg-intro, its being hosted by a rubber doll (or was it a suit and a mask? Cant remember) Vito, there's plenty of prizes and game news and they have special guests. In this particular episode, they Play Duke Nukem 3D with, oh god, Batman and Robin. Jesus Christ this is awkward to watch.
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Post by Gendo Ikari on Mar 3, 2015 7:09:13 GMT -5
I remember trying this years ago, just to see how great it looked, screenshots on magazines at the time of release couldn't but attract attention on it; also yet another demonstration of how 2D ages better. Shame that not the same care has gone to the gameplay.
The giveaway of the Steam version at Indiegala is still running.
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Post by lurker on Nov 3, 2015 9:56:27 GMT -5
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