Rough and tough

Just got around to playing Bionic Commando Rearmed.  Never played the original for the NES, so I don’t have a comparison to make, but man, what a great game.

At the time it came out, I remember a lot of people were talking about this game, especially the music.  And man, they were right!  The soundtrack really fits the game well with it being a chiptune vibe; matching with the original 8-bit game.  I liked it so much that I purchased it on iTunes.  You should do the same as well.

In addition to the music, I loved the gameplay.  I never played a game with mechanics like that before.  You know, the swinging around stuff with your bionic arm.  The only other game that I know of that has a similar type of gameplay is Umihara Kawase.  Wondering if I should try one of those games out.  Anyways, the platforming was great, but man, it was a challenging game.

It wasn’t hard enough to where I would start to hate the game.  It did a good job at being just hard enough to where you didn’t hit a wall with the difficulty, but rather just grazed it.  Another thing to note were the graphics.  I loved how it was a polygonal game, but on a 2D plane.  The 3D-ishness of the graphics as you run by objects were neat.  And to top it off, I also liked the character artwork by Shinkiro.  I’m a fan of his work from both his days at SNK and Capcom.

Nice graphics, superb music, and tight controls make this a well rounded game.  Gotta give it to Capcom, and more importantly Grin, for making such a fantastic game.

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