Life on Mars Remake

"Life on Mars" is a Metroidvania for Sega Genesis and turned into PC game. I like the mechanics, storyline, and I enjoy the mix of genres (ex. Metroid, Castlevania, Resident Evil, Faxanadu). The grinding is... very SEGA/NES, so treasure rooms and lockers rooms with upgrades would make more sense than making the game grinding by killing monsters. It only makes sense to get battery/cells/enery-packs from robots. I do like the background visual parallax. I would like more the voices to narrate what is going on and to repeat if necessary, because I missed the conversations at the bottom of the screen while killing monsters. I do like revive/teleport feature, making it feel like our hero is using supertech. Again. Treasures and using the Upgrade Centers would help reduce the grinding and encourage exploration. I still think they need to make the room designs bigger, ergonomic (ex. SEGA Castlevania Bloodlines allows Belmont to jump unto stairs; thus, making the platforming feel more real than "fake jumpy designs"), and more unique sprites per enemy. The robots make sense to copy and repeat. However, the human zombies all look the same, instead of given them more human variety. Addi…

If you love old-school style games like me, you'll love this. The game really captures the feeling of an early 90's game (complete with grinding). It has a few rough edges, like the impossibility of changing the scanline effect or the controls once you start the game, but overall it is very fun.

It's a solid metroidvania, worth grabbing. The difficulty of avoiding some hits may get you down at first. It gets better. Some of them can be pretty cheap. And the first time you blow yourself up with friendly fire you might do some yelling :) You can use the same effect to your advantage on enemies and get them to blow themselves/each other up as well. Early in some of the jumps are a bit annoying but that frustration disappears with your first upgrade item, and its better than most platformers about them after that despite the odd failure to detect a "1st jump" (as part of your double jump) if you jump to close to the edge of a ledge - fortunately, you can make said jumps without the extra distance from using the edge of the platform. It's not flawless (what game is?), but its good. Overall feels very Metroid NES+Aliens movie, and that's a good thing.

Having never played the original I was curious as to what to expect when I got this game. After having played it for around two hours I can see where the inspiration for Metroid Fusion came from! They straight up just copied this game's map structure and big antagonist. The game is so good though and felt difficult, but fair. I'd die but even dying while exploring a new area didn't really feel like a setback because of the chip system. I will say I think it's a bit simplistic sometimes but I do really enjoy the gameplay and atmosphere. The remake's art direction is on point and I love their sprite work and new enemy designs. I also had the pleasure of meeting the creator at a gaming convention and the guy seemed VERY nice and I had a great time talking to him. The game got it's DNA carbon copied by nintendo, so you know it's good.

WHO SHOULD BUY THIS GAME: -Anyone that loved Super Metroid Im 32 and I loved all the metroid platformers. Its got that dark atmosphere that immersed me as a kid. The gameplay feels similar as well. The sound effects and music very good. For a lower priced game its totally worth it.

Quite interesting The easiest difficulty alone is really hard Overall pretty good