JIM POWER IN MUTANT PLANET
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(c) LORICIEL 1992
Presented by MICRO WORLD
Release : 1993-03-19 (¥6800)
SuperCDRom² NWCD2006
Action / Platform game
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Jim Power is a futuristic side-scroller plaform game by the french
company Loriciel. The president's daughter has been kidnapped by a mean
mutant called vulghor. He has taken her to his mutant planet, and
it is Jim's duty to bring her back. Jim has now been beamed up
through the cosmos in a green burst of light and is about to land on the
Mutant Planet. Once on the ground, Jim Power can use a laser
gun and also charge up a powerful, but limited, Smart Bomb attack.
Each stage is divided into sub-sections and special keys need to be collected
along the way to unlock them. Each level has also a time limit
(which can be increased by collecting little clocks) and Jim
will lose a precious life if he doesn't reach the end of the area before
the final countdown. Jim will also suffer instant death if hit by
an enemy and will have to start the section all over again.
One of the great feature of Jim Power is the variation in level
design. At the end of the first stage, for instance, Jim grabs
a jet-pack and flies off at full speed and the game turns into a
horizontal shooter for a short time. The game counts many large stages
and a simple password system allows the player to save his progress at
the end of each one of them.
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Jim Power first came out for the Amiga and this PC Engine version show
many differences. Jim Power, the hero of the game, looks different and
now wears a hat and special glasses. Jim Power: The Lost Dimension in 3-D came
out in 1993 for the Super Nintendo. It is the only version of the game,
as far as I know, that used traditional 3D glasses.
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Game Staff (Copied from the game's introduction) :
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Original Concept
Fernando Velez
Guillaume Dubail
Programming
Alain Fernandes
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Graphics
Guillaume Dubail
Musics And Fx
Chris Hulsbeck
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Product Manager
Christophe Gomez
Development Manager
Bernard Aure
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Jim Power, despite a couple of interesting features,
is a terrible game. Graphics are detailed and colorful but are
(to my taste) plain ugly. The palette choice is also bad,
everything becomes mixed-up and it is terribly hard to
differentiate foreground action from the background, despite
an amazingly smooth sprite animation. But, worse of all, controls
and gameplay are a disaster. Jim gets stuck to platforms
and jumps like a chicken. Then his gun is just a joke and the
difficulty level just out of this world, mainly because of badly
designed controls and level design. Enemies are often too fast
and their animation patterns too random to dodge. Bosses can be
impressive though, but incredibly easy to kill. All in all,
Jim Power is only saved by its excellent music composed by
Chris Hulsbeck (Turrican, Great Giana Sisters etc...).
My advice would be to only buy a copy if you intend to play it with
your CD player. Just forget about the data track.
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