As I mentioned dying while riding one of these guys means you lose it, which can make finishing a level more of a chore, or makes it impossible to reach secret areas. The T-rex can wade through lava and breathe fire the plesiosaur makes swimming a lot easier and blows bubbles the velociraptor runs quickly and can deliver a painful kick to enemies and obstacles.
Your cave dude can collect dinosaurs from eggs and ride them around, and each one has a special ability or powerup. This also goes for the game’s other major powerup. You have infinite lives but every time you die the equipped weapon is lost keep selecting and dying and eventually you’ll run out of that weapon in your inventory. This is useful because dying makes you lose whatever weapon you’re carrying. If you finish a level with one of these weapons in hand you add it to your inventory you can then select any weapon for the next level, and picking up another gives you multiples of that item. All of these items are projectiles (think Gauntlet) and he can hurl two or three before a quick cooldown is needed. Your nameless Early Modern Human is only armed with rocks to begin with, but he can quickly acquire tomahawks, arrows and even a boomerang. The plot is as basic as it gets: you’re a caveman cuddling with your cave girlfriend when a giant dinosaur steals her, prompting the obligatory rescue.
None of this is a deal-breaker though Dinocide is easy to pick up and play once you get past the generic premise and rather stark mechanics. This means fairly flat-looking environments and sprites with minimal animation, and the bad kind of rudimentary chiptunes-the kind that cycle too often and get on your nerves. The visuals and sound feel like they’ve been ripped right out of a late-era NES game, or maybe a middling Genesis side-scroller. Dinocide’s heart is in the right place but the execution leaves something to be desired.įrom the get-go this is clearly an homage to those early 90s platformers. Dinocide has some decent ideas but it feels like an early beta or even alpha build for something that never quite got finished. This game feels like a cocktail napkin idea sketched out during a heavy buzz-good enough to be interesting but without a meaningful or memorable follow-through. So it is with Dinocide, a prehistoric platformer from Atomic Torch Studios. So it goes today some are great, some are awful and a lot are just floating in the middle somewhere.
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Unfortunately like the 90s, this surge of software runs the gamut for every Mario World and Earthworm Jim there were a dozen Bubsy the cat and mediocre X-Men spinoffs. From mind-bending puzzlers like The Swapper and Typoman to clever ideas like Adventures of Pip, this genre is seeing a full-blown renaissance. A Clinton is vying for the Democratic nomination, gas is under two dollars a gallon and 2D platformers are all the rage-it’s feeling awfully 90s in here.
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