Each little platform has a huge spike which can knock you plummeting to your death in one hit, each of the timing puzzles takes off a significant portion of health with every hit…in many ways, this game is even more unforgiving than the Super Star Wars games.

In all seriousness, though, just watch the guy try to beat the last stage - it’s friggin’ hard. Gotta love this guy’s heavily-accented, occasionally stressed-out commentary as he beats the game. The boss actually can’t be beaten unless you follow the film and shoot the dude in the chest even if you try to smack him with your whip, the guy will just stand there and take it until you finally bust a poorly-animated cap in his ass. The boulder chase plays out exactly as you’d expect it to - the damned rock takes up the entire left half of the screen - and this badass scene from Raiders is perfectly translated into a 2D boss fight. The way it replicates certain moments from the film using gameplay are really, really entertaining. Indy can climb on top of many surfaces and use his whip to swing from wooden, wall-mounted pegs since Indy can do so much, the Factor 5 developers thought it might be cute to give the player a bunch of different routes to the goal - only to dead-end all but one of them once the player has spent enough time on any given path to assume it’s the right one.ĭuck when you could have jumped? Tough titty - you’re gonna have to either die or go all the way back to that junction, and we won’t tell you that this is the case until you’ve already spent another five minutes walking right. The side-scrolling stages are more or less standard, but they’re also kind-of-sort-of nonlinear. If you can’t avoid the pitfalls, you die very quickly, and - as one would expect from a game made in 1994 - you have to restart the entire level again, even if you died right before the very end.

Every chase scene, be it on a mine cart or a biplane, requires the player to dodge and shoot with the reflexes of a genetically engineered rabbit. You know those Mode 7 levels in Empire or Jedi? Remember how I was bitching that they were difficult? They have nothing on the Mode 7 stages in Greatest Adventures.

Same deal as the Super Star Wars games, except a hundred times harder.

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