LGR - Blackthorne - DOS PC Game Review
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Comments and reviews: 9
Hellscr333m
I still love this game and revisit it often. The inventory reset is a necessity for the levels complexity and puzzles. Without it the game would get way too easy much too fast providing no challenge and sucking interest. As for the combat, yes, most of the enemies fight using the same mechanics however, each enemy has their own distinctive pattern which gets progressively more complex as you move forward through the various stages. My only issue with this game: it's the only one. There are no follow ups and Blizzard scoffs at the idea. Even going so far as to throw up and April fools joke a few years ago teasing some ridiculous badassery that will go unrealized.
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I still love this game and revisit it often. The inventory reset is a necessity for the levels complexity and puzzles. Without it the game would get way too easy much too fast providing no challenge and sucking interest. As for the combat, yes, most of the enemies fight using the same mechanics however, each enemy has their own distinctive pattern which gets progressively more complex as you move forward through the various stages. My only issue with this game: it's the only one. There are no follow ups and Blizzard scoffs at the idea. Even going so far as to throw up and April fools joke a few years ago teasing some ridiculous badassery that will go unrealized.
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Michael
Rage-quit in a box. Seriously: awful controls, tons of platforming, and lots of gotchas in the level design. It's basically just a puzzle/memorization game skinned to look like the fast-twitch, bad-ass shooter I wanted it to be. Hated Prince of Persia, too.
I got it in a bundle with the 32X unit and a bunch of other 32X games and some accessories for like $60 total when the 32X was being phased out. Figured at that price, it was worth the gamble. The 6-button genesis controller was the only part of that purchase which saw much use. and that's not saying much.
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Rage-quit in a box. Seriously: awful controls, tons of platforming, and lots of gotchas in the level design. It's basically just a puzzle/memorization game skinned to look like the fast-twitch, bad-ass shooter I wanted it to be. Hated Prince of Persia, too.
I got it in a bundle with the 32X unit and a bunch of other 32X games and some accessories for like $60 total when the 32X was being phased out. Figured at that price, it was worth the gamble. The 6-button genesis controller was the only part of that purchase which saw much use. and that's not saying much.
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JaminandShara
A friend gave me an SNES console as he was moving away when I was in high school. No controllers or games. just the console.
Next time I made it to the nearest game store (which was about 5 hours away) I used my hard earned cash to buy some controllers and only had cash for one game. I asked the owner which game he'd recommend and he pulled out this beauty. I thought, looks weird but I'll try it. We started playing it and thought it was crazy awesome!
My brothers and I still quote the enemy grunts when they laugh. -hu hu hu hu, oh! -
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A friend gave me an SNES console as he was moving away when I was in high school. No controllers or games. just the console.
Next time I made it to the nearest game store (which was about 5 hours away) I used my hard earned cash to buy some controllers and only had cash for one game. I asked the owner which game he'd recommend and he pulled out this beauty. I thought, looks weird but I'll try it. We started playing it and thought it was crazy awesome!
My brothers and I still quote the enemy grunts when they laugh. -hu hu hu hu, oh! -
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Rodrigo
Back when I was 11/12 years old someone installed this game in the computer lab of my school. Of course one of our favorite pastimes was to play through it during the classes, alongside other games.
I always thought this game had some very great graphics for its time, but I also thought the gameplay to be harder (in a not good way) compared to Prince of Persia (that was also available there in our old computer lab, which was a kind of letdown for me personally.
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Back when I was 11/12 years old someone installed this game in the computer lab of my school. Of course one of our favorite pastimes was to play through it during the classes, alongside other games.
I always thought this game had some very great graphics for its time, but I also thought the gameplay to be harder (in a not good way) compared to Prince of Persia (that was also available there in our old computer lab, which was a kind of letdown for me personally.
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SandroSensei
what do you think of the fact the snes was censored in comparison to the pc? The game is very heavy metal so I HATE they censored out the blood, as well al the gameover screen and bloodsplatter in the blizzard logo. The skull based item menu for the pc also was more in the style of the game (heavy metal. To bad they only added the snes and 32x version for the Blizzard Arcade Collection. Why do you think they didnt added the pc dos version as well?
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what do you think of the fact the snes was censored in comparison to the pc? The game is very heavy metal so I HATE they censored out the blood, as well al the gameover screen and bloodsplatter in the blizzard logo. The skull based item menu for the pc also was more in the style of the game (heavy metal. To bad they only added the snes and 32x version for the Blizzard Arcade Collection. Why do you think they didnt added the pc dos version as well?
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Takahiro
I just noticed that i might have been a great fan of most blizzard games in the past,
but thats the past in the now, its more like -yes i do have a phone, but dont play mobile games on it! - also -how dare you revive commander keen just to let him die in shame? - and also a -Diablo
without David Brevik is no diablo- etc. Blizzard and Communism i wonder-.
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I just noticed that i might have been a great fan of most blizzard games in the past,
but thats the past in the now, its more like -yes i do have a phone, but dont play mobile games on it! - also -how dare you revive commander keen just to let him die in shame? - and also a -Diablo
without David Brevik is no diablo- etc. Blizzard and Communism i wonder-.
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Andrei
I remember finishing this game in co-op. By co-op, I mean that a friend would come to my place and we would take turns in playing though the screens, or through lives. We had a small notebook for the progression passwords. I was fun to play, but also fun to watch, especially alternating between the two.
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I remember finishing this game in co-op. By co-op, I mean that a friend would come to my place and we would take turns in playing though the screens, or through lives. We had a small notebook for the progression passwords. I was fun to play, but also fun to watch, especially alternating between the two.
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Endy
I guess I'm weird - this and Lost Vikings are what I think of when I think about Silicon & Synapse / Blizzard. Their more recent games disinterest me - if I want to play bad games that rip off Warhammer, I'll just go play an actual Warhammer game. And the appeal of Diablo never made sense to me.
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I guess I'm weird - this and Lost Vikings are what I think of when I think about Silicon & Synapse / Blizzard. Their more recent games disinterest me - if I want to play bad games that rip off Warhammer, I'll just go play an actual Warhammer game. And the appeal of Diablo never made sense to me.
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Horzuhammer
Oh, the first level password in Blackthrone is STRT like in Lost Vikings, thats pretty cool. We used to play a ton LV on our school's 486, and I still remember many of the passwords. I was the only kid to finish the game (insert a smug smiley with sunglasses on here)
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Oh, the first level password in Blackthrone is STRT like in Lost Vikings, thats pretty cool. We used to play a ton LV on our school's 486, and I still remember many of the passwords. I was the only kid to finish the game (insert a smug smiley with sunglasses on here)
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