James Bang to the Rescue! Clash at Demonhead

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We've posted a review on Clash at Demonhead in our articles section.

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Intro

The name’s Bang, James Bang. As I started the game up, I started wondering just what I was getting myself into. While it didn’t take long to find out, it still surprised me. One of those very rare games that in trying to do one thing they wound up doing something else completely. I don’t know if it was the translation from Japanese or it was really like that, but what I do know is that I found a side-scrolling platformer gem that I didn’t know that I had.

Story

You play as James Bang, a member of an elite Secret Organization. Your mission is to rescue the kidnapped Professor Plum and force him to build a Doomsday Bomb.

Gameplay

This game took some getting used to. Though I’d never played this game before just a little while ago, a lot of it was very instinctual (probably years of NES play at work there). This game presented something that wasn’t terribly common in its day: a map to honestly navigate around on. Once I read the onscreen instructions, telling me how to use the map to get to particular routes, I started making progress and eventually found a boss, who took a few tries to beat.

The Map navigation took a bit of getting use to, and as it was a key feature of the game, having a period where I didn’t understand very well was bad. Maybe the manual would have helped me understand the onscreen instructions sooner, but honestly just reading them told me everything I needed to get the understanding I needed. By surviving the different routes you move to other areas which ultimately let you get at other areas and ultimately bosses. This is something that it would take a good while of game play (or just some spare time, a notepad and a pencil) to make adequate notes to move around freely without much slow down. Still, even without such notes, it’s a good game to play through and enjoy with this form of navigation. In the long run it helps quite a bit though, especially if you’re aiming to make the most of each play though.

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James Bang to the Rescue! Clash at Demonhead

[kangaroo]

Played this game, didnt like it very much