Planet Bob - Ranarama

RSS Bot · April 11, 2006

Hi there!

And here comes the next Graftgold game in this series:

Ranarama

Ratings:

Zzap! Rating: 87%

Lemon64: 7.8

Staff: Steve Turner (music) Gary J. Foreman (everything else)

Overview:

A Gauntlet style dungeon crawl. You're playing a frog with magical powers. You can cast offensive and defensive spells, while you travel through dungeons shooting most things that move. Occasionally you'll find some magic spot that activate a map or other things. Besides standard monsters and monster generators, there's also collectable energy crystals floating around and other powerful wizards, which are battled in a minigame, where you have to put some scrambled letters into the namegiving "Ranarama" order. If you win you can grab their power runes, making yourself stronger.

Fun in 2006:

I don't like this game at all. It's so goddamn ugly... I don't want to be in control of an ugly blob like this. It has "converted from spectrum" written all over and feels like a 2 week rush job. (Try it for yourself on the C64 DTV)

Ranarama compared to the previous Graftgold titles:

It borrows a lot from Paradroid I think. Replace the sci-fi setting with some fantasy backgrounds, implement a different grappling sequence and you're almost there. It's nowhere coming close to the class of Paradroid/Magnetron though.

Greetings,

Manuel

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