
How many of you still remember classic PSX a platform game, Pandemonium?
I wasn't much fan of Pandemonium 2's character design. Nikki looks like a princess hooker and Fargus for a pyromaniac devil. And Sid... Well you get the point. Also story was about their's greed to obtain the unlimited powers of the universue. Which is kinda out the place.
If there ever gonna be Pandemonium 3, I wish they use the first game's designs.
What will be a story, you might ask?
Well how about a mysterious powerful witch, who control a mysterious Black Knight, is taking over the Lancelot castle and took The king's family her's hostages. A witch's goal would be to obtain the magic powers of the Lyr and rule the world.
It would be up to a young sorceress Nikki, a court jester Fargus, and Fargus' stick-puppet Sid to stop this a Witch's plans and her minions.
I wasn't much fan of Pandemonium 2's character design. Nikki looks like a princess hooker and Fargus for a pyromaniac devil. And Sid... Well you get the point. Also story was about their's greed to obtain the unlimited powers of the universue. Which is kinda out the place.
If there ever gonna be Pandemonium 3, I wish they use the first game's designs.
What will be a story, you might ask?
Well how about a mysterious powerful witch, who control a mysterious Black Knight, is taking over the Lancelot castle and took The king's family her's hostages. A witch's goal would be to obtain the magic powers of the Lyr and rule the world.
It would be up to a young sorceress Nikki, a court jester Fargus, and Fargus' stick-puppet Sid to stop this a Witch's plans and her minions.
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The second game was designed entirely around the idea of being a psychadelic trip into insanity.
As something to look at I *kinda* preferred 2, Pandamonium 1 had a handful of level designs and stuck to them. Meadow level, forest level, desert level, etc. P2 went all over the place, though I could see how that might put people off.
I felt the second one had a *little* more variety too with some levels. The plot was weird, as you say, I seem to recall the big bad guy wanted to gain her wish to wish for galactic peace or something similar.
I did prefer the personality of P1 over P2, characters especially. Fargus going insane was a little annoying, and Nikki lost any personality she might have had to become generic-video-game-bimbo.
Gotta love the early days of 3D when companies were still trying to work out how a platformer would work using this extra dimension. Pandamonium had a good crack at it =)
As something to look at I *kinda* preferred 2, Pandamonium 1 had a handful of level designs and stuck to them. Meadow level, forest level, desert level, etc. P2 went all over the place, though I could see how that might put people off.
I felt the second one had a *little* more variety too with some levels. The plot was weird, as you say, I seem to recall the big bad guy wanted to gain her wish to wish for galactic peace or something similar.
I did prefer the personality of P1 over P2, characters especially. Fargus going insane was a little annoying, and Nikki lost any personality she might have had to become generic-video-game-bimbo.
Gotta love the early days of 3D when companies were still trying to work out how a platformer would work using this extra dimension. Pandamonium had a good crack at it =)
Have the first game around here somewhere but could never find the second. Loved it, just like old school Spyro and Crash. :3 God, I miss old school games. They may be crappy and clunky by today's standards, but you try finding a modern day enemy as scary as the first Resident Evil zombie or Scissorboy from Clock Tower! (Everyone thought Scissorboy was an evil dwarfed man but it was really just a deformed 6 year old). Old school rocks. <3
And personally, I'll always refer to the PSX as PS1 or just PS. PSX just seems wrong to me, like an aging hipster trying to be cool.
And personally, I'll always refer to the PSX as PS1 or just PS. PSX just seems wrong to me, like an aging hipster trying to be cool.
Droll, you have NO idea how much I want to kiss you. FULL homo. I was wrecking my brain to remember what game it was my buddy from my childhood got me playing one day when at his friend's house. Saw some gameplay on youtube and sure enough, this was it.
Thank you, Droll. You continue to be awesome, my friend.
Thank you, Droll. You continue to be awesome, my friend.
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