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Rocket Knight Adventures, a neat little Konami game that for some reason didn't have the best... right, Konami, that checks out. Yep, let it never be said that they only screw over their major franchises!
Anyway, as I was saying, Rocket Knight Adventures is a Genesis platformer game which I find extremely charming, it has this really unique mixture of steampunk elements with cutesy mascot visuals that gives it a really neat vibes I haven't seen done elsewhere much. I'm not sure I'd recommend it though since it's really damn hard, the US/EU versions in particular crank the difficulty way higher (to the point that the default difficulty in the US version which you need to be playing to get to the end of the game was a bonus ultra-hard difficulty locked behind cheat codes in the JP original version), but it is really unique and lovingly crafted.
Unfortunately I can't say the same for the sequels, Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2 is probably not a bad game but it's clearly a budget one, it's a lot more generic in terms of visuals and loses much of the charm. I'd say the same for the SNES game titled simply Sparkster, I'm not saying either of them are bad games, I only played the original (researched all tho), I just don't think they have the same charm. There's also a 2010 revival attempt which... eugh
Anyway, new profiles here. Old profiles here (ones that aren't getting changed are fine P&A-wise). That's it, feats ignored by the new profiles are invalid for mostly self-evident reasons, feel free to ask me to explain if needed tho, also note that if the bolded P&A thing goes through I'm applying it to Axel's profile since I think it looks better.
Anyway, as I was saying, Rocket Knight Adventures is a Genesis platformer game which I find extremely charming, it has this really unique mixture of steampunk elements with cutesy mascot visuals that gives it a really neat vibes I haven't seen done elsewhere much. I'm not sure I'd recommend it though since it's really damn hard, the US/EU versions in particular crank the difficulty way higher (to the point that the default difficulty in the US version which you need to be playing to get to the end of the game was a bonus ultra-hard difficulty locked behind cheat codes in the JP original version), but it is really unique and lovingly crafted.
Unfortunately I can't say the same for the sequels, Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2 is probably not a bad game but it's clearly a budget one, it's a lot more generic in terms of visuals and loses much of the charm. I'd say the same for the SNES game titled simply Sparkster, I'm not saying either of them are bad games, I only played the original (researched all tho), I just don't think they have the same charm. There's also a 2010 revival attempt which... eugh
Anyway, new profiles here. Old profiles here (ones that aren't getting changed are fine P&A-wise). That's it, feats ignored by the new profiles are invalid for mostly self-evident reasons, feel free to ask me to explain if needed tho, also note that if the bolded P&A thing goes through I'm applying it to Axel's profile since I think it looks better.
