Abandon your Sunday plans: Return to Dark Castle ships

Despite my agreement with Ben that Dark Castle is more interesting to me in general than most platform games, i have to agree that the graphics don't live up to today's standards. However, I don't think it's intellectually honest to compare it to modern games. The most crucial thing for the developers of this game was to make it true to the original (with which they succeeded brilliantly imho), and the original was made 20 years ago! Compare it to the games that were out at the time and i think you'll find it stands up incredibly well. This was one of the first games i played, and I'm really pleased it got this overhaul to save me from finding and running a mac plus emulator. In fact, I'm so old skool that i was originally sceptical that it was even in colour! I got over that though hehe. Brilliant game!

oh and let me add that he jumping and moving from rope to rope was done better ( ie control wise) in Donkey Kong jr.

oh and let me add that he jumping and moving from rope to rope was done better ( ie control wise) in Donkey Kong jr.

This is my honest opinion about the game. I bought it because my friend loves this game to death and helped out with the betas and has been waiting for this forever. I played it and I truly hate it.

Here are my reasons why ( please respond I am not flaming just giving my reasons):

One hit and you are dead + horrible controls = me not getting far enough to get to a point where I have a shield or more protection and thus dying alot and turning the game off in utter annoyance. Dont tell me these equal a hard fun enjoyable game, they dont. If I die because of the controls then there is an issue with the game. All I have to say is contra. That was one hit kills, with amazing tight controlls. if you messed up it was your fault

If the controls were just arrow pad plus action button and jump, and maybe one more button for crouch I would be fine. But as it is I have a hard time controlling the game with all those buttons and the mouse ( yes I hate and am bad at controlling FPS too) and thus getting into all of the potential. I love mario, I love megaman, and I love contra, all three games are jumping, platforming and all are more fun than this game.

Boy . . . I have to say that I'm with Bob. Why is it that every time I play a game on my mac I feel like I'm back on Atari? Atari was great, don't get me wrong -- but 25 years ago! Hasn't anyone discovered basic graphic capabilities? I hear Ben when he says that console games bore him to tears -- but a bit more graphical development to this game wouldn't have been THAT hard. I hope we all agree that a game can be great quality AND have 21st Century graphics.

Is it just me or is that game freaking HARD?

For discussion on the game, visit the Dark Castle forums:
http://s6.invisionfree.com/Dark_Castle_Forum/

Bought a copy and got the registration info from SHFF via email. Cannot register the game for some reason. Had to send an email to support@SHFF. Not a great way to start off.
I played (and still play on my SE-30) the original Dark Castle. I can't believe they screwed up this release. I can't be the only one to not be able to register. Ow ell, waiting till they reply....sigh.....

I'm glad everone is happy, but these are the reasons macs get laughed at for its gaming lol

I purchased this game two days ago and I am LOVING it! I've been a Dark Castle fan since I was a wee lad, and this thing not only lived up to my expectations, but the new content has completely surpassed the appeal of the original. This game will give you hours and hours and hours of enjoyment (and sometimes frustration) and there's a BOAT-LOAD of hidden items and abilities to find! Truly a masterpiece!

FIVE STARS!!!