"Man... Blackthorn."Whoa, I had no idea there was a GBA release of that game, either. Crazy. I played the SNES version.
@Meltac: I don't know if it was overrated. The length and slow ramp of complexity really remind me of Portal, like, a perfect capsule-sized game. The elements they pull from the classics are really well done and, on top of that, $12? It takes a lot of skill to take "dude climbing around with his girlfriend" and turn him into a superman fluidly, in the context of a good (fun) story. You start out climbing up some ledges and hiding and then you gradually become a killing machine. How is that not a fantastic game? It's exactly what it should be.
Yes, the aiming can be a bit wonky at times, and the characters talk like puppets... and they could have done without the helicopter bit at the beginning, which I think is only there to promise/suggest to impatient players that you get to be said superman eventually... so maybe it's a 4.9, 4.8 out of five. That's still a great, great game. It may have won over Pro Critics even more than the average player just because of all the borrowed (should I say sampled?) elements from the classics, but I think it earned all of its stars.
Now, I gotta get through these VR Missions- I mean uh, Proving Grounds levels.
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