So recently I decided to take it upon myself to sit down recently and play some Hydlide for the NES, and man, what a mistake that was. Well, maybe it wasn't a mistake, but it was definitely a challenge for more reasons than the fact that the game isn't "all that", but I still felt compelled to play it for a bit since it's been a while. Personally, I don't think it was nearly as bad as other major reviewers made it out to be but it does suffer from quite a bit of bad gameplay, graphics, and sometimes the controls can be a bit clunky too, but it has some enjoyable elements as well. I wouldn't rank it among the worst video games of all-time, or even the worst on the NES, but it's definitely not a worthwhile game to sit there and play through it until the end. Here is a piece of a recent blog I wrote about Hydlide, the link to the full blog is in my signiture. Enjoy!
What do you guys think about the game? Love it? Hate it? Any stories to share? Let's talk about Hydlide for a minute and go back to a time when gaming was a little more relaxed in the RPG world than it is now, and Hydlide is definitely "relaxed" in more ways than one.This game really doesn't have much going for it, either. The graphics are extremely poor, the control is kinda slow and chunky, and it's one of those games where you cant really tell if you're hitting the enemies or not. In combat when you attack nothing really happens except for a small health bar that appears at the top of the screen and depletes when an enemy is dying. This makes things really difficult when fighting monsters because you have no sense of spacing, you end up taking a lot of damage thanks to your sword not moving outward to hit your opponent. Also, if your enemy hits you first you have to back up before attacking again otherwise you'll continue to lose heath, which is extremely annoying and makes you want to punt an elderly woman in her jaw. Or better yet, it's so annoying it makes you want to unleash a poisonous snake into an
infant ward at a hospital.