NES Works

A real Jim in the rough: Hydlide (5x14)

Yayınlanma tarihi: Şub 07, 2024

Well, here we are. One of the worst games of all time! A huge disaster that insults the intelligence of anyone who owned an NES! Nah, not really. Hydlide feels incredibly archaic as a 1989 NES release, but that doesn't reflect on the game itself so much as FCI's weird decision to publish it here so late. I think it probably would have fared well if they'd shipped it alongside Zanac back in 1987. But two years later? Why would anyone want this game when they could play a dozen better, Hydlide-inspired works instead? Still, this is a game worth experiencing and attempting to understand, because it's pretty much the Rosetta Stone for action-RPGs. Seriously, it was a big deal. Just... not in 1989.