Tonight I made it to what I think is the third to final stage and game overed. I think I'll talk about it now.
Plok is a side-scrolling platformer for the SNES. It starts out easy enough but man, it gets nasty after the flashback at Legacy Island.
As hideous as the
sticker art is, it's definitely one of the best looking games I've seen in a while; it looks at least as good as Yoshi's Island. Okay, Plok himself looks a little dippy (he looks like what you'd get of you mashed Orko with a Pac-Man ghost). But the scenery is colorful, sometimes cartoony and but often more detailed with colors, and the
backgrounds look like paintings. There's also this gorgeous detail with the spider boss. After you hit him twice he creates a web (you can actually get in a third it before he does it, it's just that the second hit triggers this phase) in the middle of the screen that's rainbow colored and spins. It almost looks more like a Ferris wheel than a spider web.
The music is odd. It's usually good, often bombastic, but other parts are kind of noodly. Not offensive or irritating, just kind of uninspired. The boss theme comes to mind, which starts off with this menacing cackle layered with some clashing, then some spooky "Oooh"ing, then the percussion kicks in, then finally the main song... and even though it's still catchy it kind of bumbly. Occasionally that cackle from the beginning repeats.
It's got a sense of humor, and even though I've read several of the gags at least five times they still make me smile or giggle.
My one complaint? This game needed a password system. From beginning to end, this game probably takes two hours to complete.
Heh, I went to paste my signature, but this was on my clipboard:
Where are these lemmings going? Not the Super Nintendo Super Shire! They know to go to
Codiekitty.com now!