This is
another game I bought in the hope of earning more quick achievements and I
wasn’t disappointed. Also a trip down memory lane was long overdue. I used to
love all the old games on this compilation from my younger days. Well, some of
them anyway. I hadn’t played a lot of them before as they were before my time.
Some are even released before I was born!
The first
thing I realised when playing was that games have become a lot easier since the
Megadrive days. I swear to God, I was better at these games when I was younger,
but if Sonic Generations proved
anything it’s that I will never be good at Sonic again, no matter what version
of the game I’m playing.
Dying became
something of a regular thing throughout these games. Having a limited number of
lives before having to start again is something that modern games don’t really
do. I can’t think of a modern game which punishes you half as much for being
careless. It’s no wonder I found these games so difficult as modern games have
dulled my abilities.
I used to
walk through Golden Axe without a
care, fighting my way through the hordes of enemies and I swear I’ve managed to
get to the end of the game before. On the Ultimate collection version however, I
can’t even make it through to act 4 without having to use at least 1 continue.
There’s not
really a lot else for me to comment on. We all know that the older games are
vastly superior and can’t be criticised for looks so let’s dive straight into
the...
Achievements – 1,000 Points – 34
Achievements
With a
compilation of this size, it was disappointing that there were only 34
achievements. There are quite a few for playing the individual games but not
all of them. I was especially disappointed that there weren’t any achievements
for completing any of the Phantasy Star games
or even any achievements for individually playing them.
One massive
improvement from the Megadrive generation
is being able to save your progress and reload. This was great because, as I
mentioned in the Sonic Generations review,
a lot of the games are very much trial and error. This cut potentially hours
off both of the Vectorman
achievements.
Most of the
achievements are hideously unbalanced as well. Why oh why do you have to play
the first five to ten minutes of some of the more enjoyable games, yet you have
to complete Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean
Machine which is not only a horrible game to play but insanely difficult to
boot.
Downloadable Content – N/A
On the whole
it is an easy set of achievements to gain with the exception of Dr Robonik’s
not so fun Bean thing. Some of the others were quite tricky as well such as
getting to a certain stage without dying and I think I got lucky during some
parts.
However, it
was an enjoyable game to play through and certainly has a lot of replay value
which is more than can be said for the majority of modern releases.
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