Equinox
I haven't done a Video Game Peek in a while, since Startropics and Mystical Ninja. Let's do another one! Equinox is fairly unknown like these two. Well, I've been mentioning this game a lot on TNFS.
In this TNT, I'm going to talk about Equinox, which is one of my favorite Super Nintendo games. I think most of you don't really know about this game, so let's take a peek at this game.
Equinox
Developed by Software Creations, Published by Sony Imagesoft
1994, SNES
Day 1
Let me introduce the main character first.
The guy who is standing right here is Glendaal, the main character of this game. No, he is not from the Middle East, he just dresses up like this way. Since this game doesn't have a real story, he is pretty much a silent hero. His mission is to defeat the evil magician Sonia, who kidnapped his father, Shadax. Let's see how you can help his adventure by playing this game.
The main objective of this game is to travel through the dungeons, get twelve tokens located inside the dungeon, and then head to the boss room and fight the boss. At this point, you might think like "What is this? Another Zelda Clone?", but Equinox has its special factors that make it different from the other dungeon exploring games.
1. Its Perspective. You don't see this kind of perspective really well on video games, right? Actually, because of this, the controls take some time to get used to. Pressing Left heads to Left Up, Pressing Down heads to Left Down, and so on. However, if you get used to these tricky controls, you will actually have a lot of fun with the new controls.
2. The very good use of Trial and Error, which makes you think. This will take a long time to explain. Some of you might think "Wait a second. How can be a Trial and Error used in a good way?". But Trial and Error in Equinox is different. Equinox is actually a pretty tough game. Enemy placements can make you hard to avoid stuff, and the boss pattern is pretty erratic. And what's more, you will die in one hit.
You might ask for 'What is the life bar for, then?' That's actually like the extra lives in platformer games. If you die, you will start again at the room where you died. Anyways, you'll first have to analyze the enemies' location, the boss's pattern, and that kind of stuff when you first get into the room. Then, once you analyzed their patterns, you will have to make use of it when avoiding the enemies and defying the bosses. I like how some 'thinking' was required on a normal dungeon crawling game. You won't get this on other games, where you don't die after one hit.
Getting to fully analyze the room might take some time, so you must not be afraid of dying, really. Once you died in the room you had problems with, you probably encountered what you did wrong at the part. Learning that, you can think of a plan to avoid those obstacles, and do it right the second time. And there are quite a lot of healing items in those dungeons, so just don't use all of your lives.
And so, I've talked about gameplay of Equinox which makes it special compared to others. On Day 2, I am going to talk about the setting of this game, like the overall feeling of the dungeons and the music. Anyways, goodbye!
I haven't done a Video Game Peek in a while, since Startropics and Mystical Ninja. Let's do another one! Equinox is fairly unknown like these two. Well, I've been mentioning this game a lot on TNFS.
Myself wrote:I usually name myself Equinox, based after the SNES game of the same name.
Myself wrote:Equinox, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, and Earthbound are the games that I think has perfect soundtrack.
Myself wrote:Equinox is one my favorite SNES games.
In this TNT, I'm going to talk about Equinox, which is one of my favorite Super Nintendo games. I think most of you don't really know about this game, so let's take a peek at this game.
Equinox
Developed by Software Creations, Published by Sony Imagesoft
1994, SNES
Day 1
Let me introduce the main character first.
The guy who is standing right here is Glendaal, the main character of this game. No, he is not from the Middle East, he just dresses up like this way. Since this game doesn't have a real story, he is pretty much a silent hero. His mission is to defeat the evil magician Sonia, who kidnapped his father, Shadax. Let's see how you can help his adventure by playing this game.
The main objective of this game is to travel through the dungeons, get twelve tokens located inside the dungeon, and then head to the boss room and fight the boss. At this point, you might think like "What is this? Another Zelda Clone?", but Equinox has its special factors that make it different from the other dungeon exploring games.
1. Its Perspective. You don't see this kind of perspective really well on video games, right? Actually, because of this, the controls take some time to get used to. Pressing Left heads to Left Up, Pressing Down heads to Left Down, and so on. However, if you get used to these tricky controls, you will actually have a lot of fun with the new controls.
2. The very good use of Trial and Error, which makes you think. This will take a long time to explain. Some of you might think "Wait a second. How can be a Trial and Error used in a good way?". But Trial and Error in Equinox is different. Equinox is actually a pretty tough game. Enemy placements can make you hard to avoid stuff, and the boss pattern is pretty erratic. And what's more, you will die in one hit.
You might ask for 'What is the life bar for, then?' That's actually like the extra lives in platformer games. If you die, you will start again at the room where you died. Anyways, you'll first have to analyze the enemies' location, the boss's pattern, and that kind of stuff when you first get into the room. Then, once you analyzed their patterns, you will have to make use of it when avoiding the enemies and defying the bosses. I like how some 'thinking' was required on a normal dungeon crawling game. You won't get this on other games, where you don't die after one hit.
Getting to fully analyze the room might take some time, so you must not be afraid of dying, really. Once you died in the room you had problems with, you probably encountered what you did wrong at the part. Learning that, you can think of a plan to avoid those obstacles, and do it right the second time. And there are quite a lot of healing items in those dungeons, so just don't use all of your lives.
And so, I've talked about gameplay of Equinox which makes it special compared to others. On Day 2, I am going to talk about the setting of this game, like the overall feeling of the dungeons and the music. Anyways, goodbye!
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