I found the original Mortal Kombat trilogy on sale on GOG
and remembering how much fun I’d had with those games in the past, I bought
them and downloaded the first game. The first thing I noticed was that it
handles quite a bit differently to the Sega Megadrive version of the game I was
used to…
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| Not looking good for Sub-Zero, is it? |
There’s no point in being polite about this; the controls
are incredibly clunky, even for a Mortal Kombat game. The game was released for
DOS and runs on DOSbox, which doesn’t support the game controller I have. This
being a fighting game, I’d rather be using a controller, but from what I
understand, that wouldn’t be much better: As PC controllers at the time weren’t
expected to have more than four buttons anyway, whichever configuration of the
controller settings you used would have meant missing out on at least one of
the necessary buttons. I ended up rebinding and using some of the keyboard for
the game. It works… but it’s very fiddly to remember what key does what button,
and often I find myself pressing buttons that do nothing at all.
Elsewhere, the game is closer to the Arcade game than the
console ports that came later. The music is different to how I remember it from
the Mega Drive, but some of the tracks were used in the Gameboy port of the
game! The fights work well enough, if you can get past the controls, and it
would be churlish of me to suggest I’m not enjoying it at all, but there are
better fighting games than this now.
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| A very sad moment of the game... |
With the corona virus gripping the country and a lot of my
work put on hold, I have spent quite a bit of time playing Final Fantasy VII on
my Nintendo Switch. This is another game that, objectively speaking, hasn’t
aged particularly well, but is always a joy to play, nonetheless. At the time
of writing I’m in the Corel Prison, (I got game over-ed in the fight against
Dyne; I’d forgotten how quick he reacts!) which means I’m past the point I
reached the last time I attempted a complete playthrough. I’d be surprised if
any of you remember this as it was over five years ago, but I tried playing
through the PlayStation version of the game which sadly stopped working en
route to Corel. Whether I’ll see this through to the end I don’t know, and with
the remake due out in a few weeks, I may not have to – but I’ll enjoy it while
it lasts!
I carried on with Assassin’s Creed 2 when I could spare the
time, and I’m working my way through the missions in Venice. Funnily enough
there doesn’t seem to be anywhere near as much side activity to do in Venice as
there is in the other cities in the game; maybe I’m missing something, or maybe
the game wants to move the story on a little more quickly now.
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| Intense... |
Then, when my daughter turned up, I had a go with Spelunky
on the Xbox 360. This is a bit of an odd game for me as I played it after
playing Rogue Legacy, and I didn’t think Spelunky was as good. But it is one of
the better pick up and play games I own on the 360, and the controls are simple
enough for my daughter to at least give it a go! It’s a very difficult game,
but we have fun in the mines. In my case that means getting through as much of
the game as I possibly can, in her case it means trying to get to the end of
the level before the ghost gets her!
I also managed to finish painting my second squad of Chaos
Raptors for my Black Legion army and bought another box of them. My intention
is to get three six-man squads plus a Chaos Lord to make up a 500pt army and
see how I feel after that. But I’m painting these models more quickly than I’ve
managed in a long time, so while this would normally take me close to a year,
this year may prove a different matter entirely.
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