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Are Superman games still cursed to be awful? I got the NES game in a yard sale ages ago and remember looking it up on the early web and finding others who also
by Kye 4y ago
Are Superman games still cursed to be awful? I got the NES game in a yard sale ages ago and remember looking it up on the early web and finding others who also thought it was atrocious.
- sylens 4y agoI think it is a particularly hard character to build a game around. Danger/conflict for Superman boils down to a binary question - is kryptonite present or not? I think a later Superman game (for the XBox or XBox 360 generation, I believe) tried to use the health of Metropolis in lieu of a health gauge for Superman himself, which I thought was a novel idea. There's also a lot of individual mechanics for Superman (flight, speed, strength, laser vision, etc.) that are probably challenging to get right. It's easier to work with more limited heroes.
- acuozzo 4y ago> Danger/conflict for Superman boils down to a binary question - is kryptonite present or not? Perhaps, but given that Superman is not from Earth it could go the Dragon Ball route.