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Post by Discoalucard on Mar 30, 2008 20:23:17 GMT -5
www.hardcoregaming101.net/natsume/natsume.htmThis one's about two years old. I recently found out that I skipped over a game called Choujin Sentai Jetman - which doesn't OFFICIALLY list Natsume as its developer, but it's pretty obvious. It's actually one of their weaker games, but it's not too bad. I also added MP3s for Shadow of the Ninja, Shatterhand, and SCAT.
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Post by CRV on Mar 30, 2008 21:43:39 GMT -5
There's a lot of games missing from that article: Don Doko Don 2, Dragon Fighter, The Jetsons: Cogswell's Caper, and Mitsume ga Tooru. Natsume at least did the programming and sound on Captain Saver, Power Blazer, Power Blade, and Power Blade 2.
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Post by Discoalucard on Mar 30, 2008 22:48:18 GMT -5
Yeah, uh, I've never even heard of those. Time to read up I guess!
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Post by ReyVGM on Mar 30, 2008 23:08:43 GMT -5
The NES Jetsons is pretty cool, just like the NES Flintstones.
I don't know what is it about some NES games that the controls were tighter than some of the SNES versions.
Main example the NES Jetsons, Flintstones vs the SNES ones.
The NES ones are very enjoyable.
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Post by ReyVGM on Mar 30, 2008 23:24:54 GMT -5
Speaking of Shatterhand. Is there a possibility that people that worked on the NES Batman also worked on Shatterhand?
Because both games look and play almost alike.
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Post by Discoalucard on Mar 30, 2008 23:26:29 GMT -5
Maybe they were by different development teams?
I gave some of these a shot real quick. Mitsume ga Tooru and Dragon Fighter definitely qualify (the latter I guess was released in America? I never knew.) The Jetsons and Don Doko Don 2 are kinda in the fringe - with all of these other games, you can definitely tell they have some similarities, but these two just feel different. It feels like Natsume developed it but someone else designed it. They're still worth mentioning though, I guess.
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Post by ReyVGM on Mar 30, 2008 23:33:34 GMT -5
Lol, after I kept reading I noticed you said that Shatterhand doesn't seem to rip off any other game. I have to disagree, Shatterhand is totally a Batman rip off. I've played both games extensively back in the days and all of my friends noticed right away it was ripping off Batman. Look at this screen. Replace Shatterhand with the Batman sprite and no one would be able to tell the difference. The same crouching shooting enemies are in Batman. Even the way Shatterhand jumps and punches is like Batman.  Here are fullgame Batman screenshots if you want to compare. www.vgmuseum.com/images/nes/01/batman.html |
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Post by Discoalucard on Mar 30, 2008 23:45:11 GMT -5
Ehh...it's similar graphic-wise, a little bit, and the whole punching thing. But it's not an obvious clone, in the same way that they were obviously going after Ninja Gaiden with Shadow of the Ninja, or Forgotten Worlds with SCAT.
Batman plays differently too, especially with the special items. Shatterhand's are much more unique.
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Post by ReyVGM on Mar 30, 2008 23:55:12 GMT -5
Well I find Shatterhand much more like Batman than Shadow of The Ninja with Ninja Gaiden and lots of people have made the same observations when they play Shatterhand. Not counting the obvious powerups differences of course. I know SotN (hey, same innitials as Symphony of the Night  ) is trying to rip off Ninja Gaiden, but it plays very differently. Shatterhand plays much closer to Batman than SotN with Ninja Gaiden. I think it's fair to at least mention it considering lots of people have noticed it and you already made comparisons with the other games. |
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Post by Discoalucard on Mar 30, 2008 23:57:47 GMT -5
What I mean to say is, a ripoff in concept. Shatterhand is more than just a "ninja" game or "shooter" game.
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Post by zzz on Mar 31, 2008 2:01:45 GMT -5
Isn't Don Doko Don 2 a Taito game? The original is.
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Post by Allie on Mar 31, 2008 3:51:38 GMT -5
Maybe they were by different development teams? I gave some of these a shot real quick. Mitsume ga Tooru and Dragon Fighter definitely qualify (the latter I guess was released in America? I never knew.) Oh yeah. I continually rented the hell out of Dragon Fighter back in my younger days. Though somehow I'd have never associated it with the same developers who did Shatterhand and SCAT. Though maybe I should have. Back in the NES days, you could usually tell a developer by the style of music used in the game, as most major developers had their own signature sound... (especially Capcom, Konami, and Sunsoft.) Natsume's games typically had a similar sound to Konami's, so looking back, I really should have recognized it in Dragon Fighter. As far as the Shatterhand/Batman issue, I'm just not seeing it. Yes, the main character punched primarily in both games, but in Shatterhand, the concept of your character being able to block bullets by punching them seemed like a pretty major fundamental difference, and, as Kurt said, the way the items come into play give the game a different feel, as well. (Not to mention that the Shatterhand mechanic of hanging on chained fences is different from the Batman wall jump.) |
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Post by ReyVGM on Mar 31, 2008 4:36:04 GMT -5
Well I guess I'm all alone in this then.
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Post by CRV on Mar 31, 2008 5:59:03 GMT -5
Well I guess I'm all alone in this then. Yeah, there's definitely a resemblance (but they were not developed by the same people). |
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Post by mainpatr on Mar 31, 2008 15:51:18 GMT -5
Jetman and Shadow of the Ninja both have the same style of credits screens..
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) is trying to rip off Ninja Gaiden, but it plays very differently.
