casually dismiss or ignore and erase their footprint, imho! if you can't tell if a game is western before grabbing it, mobygames is your best friend. while it's easy for me to determine on sight, these days (there's clear differences in western & japanese pixel art at least 90% of the time), i feel like there should be some sort of mandatory awareness that the vast majority of western home console games from that time period are dogshit awful and not worth so much as acknowledging. Nothing here looks like any amount of time would have made this what i'd even consider 'playable,' tbh.Ĭhecking out the dev's history, and fucking oof. the side-scrolling areas are like peak western design of that generation - not scrolling the screen til you're like 90% up to its edge, sprawling, multi-directional scrolling mazes with no obvious landmarks, totally thoughtless combat with a bunch of enemies that will eventually attrition out your massive healthbar as you discover the myriad of dead-ends. something about the system's palette and sound that makes incompetency all the more obvious and hard to swallow. i hate western games from that time period, in general, but have a special contempt for ones on the MD because the majority are extra hideous and awful-sounding.

It surprisingly doesn't look like garbage.Įh? definitely looks like it, to me.

Aladdin snes regional differences