100 Word Review - #M3 - Star Wars: Dark Forces

It's like a hidden-object game all over again.

Star Wars: Dark Forces

Genre - Action

Metascore - N/A

Developer - LucasArts

Other Games by Developer - Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

Mat's Playtime - 6.6 hours

The nostalgia, the whimsy, the Nintendo-hard difficulty – we all love retro gaming, but probably only console platformers. Dark Forces hasn’t aged well at all. Essentially a key-hunt, the gameplay depends on you exploring every level completely, but the textures are so repetitive you often can’t see corners along walls. It’s like running through a tedious optical illusion. Supposedly the first FPS to let you look up/down, it’s clumsily implemented through pageup/down. Luckily the glass-like enemies fall as soon as you look at them so you have plenty of time to dance the robot. Pushing boundaries then, but just painful now.

Mat's Score - 3/10

100 Word Review - #K7 - Lucidity

This might be taken from the game.
I'll probably never know...

Lucidity

Genre - Family, Casual

Metascore - 59%

Developer - LucasArts

Other Games by Developer - Star Wars: Dark Forces, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

Kris' Current Playtime - 0.1 hours

It's going to be difficult to call this one a review. I barely got out of the gate with Lucidity before I stopped playing to go and do anything else. I really like puzzle platformers (despite some of the low scores that I have given them) but this one just had nothing in the opening to get me going. The moral of the story for me is "just because a game is on sale, doesn't mean that you should buy it, no matter how cheap". I might try it again but the first impression made me uninstall it straight way.

Kris' Score -  2/10