Retro Review – Super Ghouls and Ghosts

<p>I&&num;8217&semi;m a huge fan of retro games&comma; seeing that I grew up in the time that is now considered &&num;8220&semi;retro&period;&&num;8221&semi; Luckily I kept a majority of my old games and corresponding systems so I can play them when I feel the need to&period; Having conquered <em>Demon&&num;8217&semi;s Souls<&sol;em> and <em>Dark Souls&comma;<&sol;em> I figured I&&num;8217&semi;d be able to take Arthur on his quest to save the princess pretty quickly&period; Holy crap was I wrong&excl; I chose <em>Super Ghouls and Ghosts<&sol;em> over the previous ones because I had heard it is the most difficult&comma; and that is not an understatement&period; To date&comma; this is the hardest game I have ever encountered&comma; and I loved every minute of it&period; Most of the time when I challenge a very difficult game&comma; I get aggravated and quit within minutes&comma; but my failures with Arthur went on for hours&comma; and never met once with success&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;120353" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-120353" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-120353" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;08&sol;26141023&sol;0aca71ab9aed1bcc464badc2f86de8ae&period;png" alt&equals;"&lpar;Super Ghouls and Ghosts - Capcom&rpar;" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"480" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-120353" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Super Ghouls and Ghosts<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; Capcom&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The game of course still looks gorgeous&semi; the 16-bit graphics have aged very gracefully unlike it&&num;8217&semi;s 32-bit counterpart&period; The enemy animations are great and Arthur&&num;8217&semi;s jump looks great&comma; even though it was a little too sluggish for my liking&period; The backgrounds also look phenomenal&period; The music&comma; while not the best in series &&num;8211&semi; the honor goes to <em>Ghosts and Goblins &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;em> still sounds phenomenal through my flat screen speakers&period; I even caught myself humming along to the tune as I continued to die over and over&period; As I played&comma; I found myself wondering if a game like this would be popular should it have been released today&period; Personally I don&&num;8217&semi;t think so&semi; gamers have been babied as the generations continue&comma; and the crushing difficulty of this game would make most destroy their controllers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The controls are pretty simple&semi; one button is attack&comma; and the other is jump with the d-pad moving you forwards&comma; backwards&comma; and down &lpar;crouching&rpar;&period; The simple controls help you die less&comma; but not that much&period; At every turn there is an obstacle that is attempting to end you&period; If there aren&&num;8217&semi;t zombies constantly re-spawning&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s huge obelisks blocking your weapon&&num;8217&semi;s path&period; Also&comma; these obelisks are just tall enough to make you have to do a double jump which will most likely land you into the arms of death anyway&period; Everything wants to kill you in this game&comma; and Capcom wasn&&num;8217&semi;t nice enough to give you many chances either&period; You get five continues&comma; two lives per continue and a whopping two hits per life&period; And with all that they&&num;8217&semi;ve given you&comma; you have to get through eight levels of constantly respawning enemies that show you no quarter&period; Good luck beating this monster of a game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;120354" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-120354" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-120354" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;08&sol;26141102&sol;super-ghouls-n-ghosts-04&period;png" alt&equals;"&lpar;Super Ghouls and Ghosts - Capcom&rpar;" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"480" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-120354" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Super Ghouls and Ghosts<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; Capcom&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>I&&num;8217&semi;m glad that I dusted this game off&comma; I remember playing this and it&&num;8217&semi;s predecessors when I was younger&comma; and it was a great walk down memory lane&&num;8230&semi; An irritating walk down memory lane&comma; but a nice one nonetheless&period; Should you be an older gamer like myself and have fond memories of this game&comma; picking it up again will help you relive your tough gaming childhood&period; If you are a younger gamer who hasn&&num;8217&semi;t had the pleasure of playing this masterpiece&comma; you need to go out and find a copy&period; It will be worth your time&comma; and you&&num;8217&semi;ll get to see just how hard games used to be&comma; and how easy a majority of them are now&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;