I’m a Gamer, can’t help it. Lately I’ve been rediscovering my PSX, while my original is broken, I found a excellent emulator and a neat rom site. With those, I can re-live Medieval times in Medievil one and two, jump on pigs in Tomba, and these are really 2 great games! Why doesn’t Steam have some sort of PSX emulator with (seperate) games for sale? That’d be great. Games wouldn’t be expensive and it’d be hours and hours of fun. So, if you can get a PS 1 or 2 and also the games noted earlier, go get them, you’re missing out for a few bucks. Also worth noting is Spyro The Dragon, I don’t recall having so much fun with dragons without brutally slaying them and yelling OOM.

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Medievil

The first game I decided to play on the emulator. It was decent fun, but the best part was really in the story. It’s not the depth, but it’s the humor. The green gargoyles keep mocking you in really funny ways and the text is just top notch. Medievil’s story telling is for games what Shakespeare’s was for drama, a thing to strive for.You play Sir Daniel Fortesque who is a hero from long long ago. He battled his way to the evil sorcerer Zarok’s castle and with his dying breath he killed Zarok. At least, that what’s the books say. What really happened? Get the game, I don’t want to spoil that for you. But keep in mind that this is a really funny game. Anyhow, several decades or so later you wake up from the dead because Zarok is at it again and it is up to you to stop the evil sorcerer.

The sound was good! Almost every level has it’s own theme and they all fit, plus the voice acting! I like it a lot. In the Hall Of Heroes, a bonus-shopping level, each hero has it’s own accent and funny lines. Good stuff.

The gameplay was decent. Replay value is none, which makes it a short game. My first and only run through the game took me 5 hours. Some annoying things are the jumps: Fortesque can’t jump that good and you fall to your death way too often. It’s frustrating, it adds unnecessary repetition to the game. The fighting is more button bashing (or when you have a turbo-button like me, button holding) than strategicly doing stuff. You run, you charge your special attack, you kill the monsters. None of the monsters are a real threat which in the end makes this play more like a platformer and since Sir Dan sucks at jumping and steering him while running isn’t with the accuracy of a modern day FPS the game doesn’t score high on gameplay. The game has some wicked weapons and even a shield system which is easy to master and use, but you’ll never find yourself using it because you’re invincible as long as you keep hitting attack. It’s a shame really, the fighting could have made this game a lot more special and fun.

In the end:

+Good story!
+Good sound!
+Lots of humor

-Plays like a platformer, and not a very fun one.
-No replay value, short playthrough, combined making it a short game.

Medievil’s good sides make up for the suckier parts. Medievil is definitely worth a look: 6 points.

Stay tuned for when I finish my next game!