Mike Castle

Okay, I asked for it, so I should try and give a decent review of it.

We open with one of my favourite bits of intro music to a game ever. (OCReMiX have a great remix of it on their site as well for that matter), I absolutely adore the intro music to this game.

The basic story begins that someone has stolen the flag from Plok's house, and he spies it on another island. So off we go trekking to get it back. Nothing outstanding, and generally just your bare basic plot from the time it would seem.

The controls are easy, it's not hard to get the hang of fire, jump, and large jump. However the game has much more than your basic platformer in it, and I shall come to that later.

Sound

The music is brilliant, really gets you into the feel for the game, (and the boss music is amazingly well done as well). Each area of the game has it's own music as well, and they always fit the area and really help draw you into the game, and even the power ups have their own music that plays along with them to make it all the better.

Graphics

I still love these even today, they're bright, colourful and just all round fun. What's not to like?

Gameplay

The game is hard, it's aimed at the younger generation, and the first few levels are easy, but after the first boss the difficulty level spikes up something drastic, and just keeps getting higher the further in you get.

This thing is full of comical situations, right from the beginning you raise the first flag and find a pair of boxer shorts, and the game continues throwing comedy at you from then on, be it more stupid flags, comical stuff from Plok himself, or my favourite, on the Normal game when you get back to the house and fall asleep only to go doing Grand Pappy Plok's mini quest for the Amulet, leading him to dig up all sorts of strange items as he searches for it (and finally another fight with those damned Bobbins brothers, and this time there's three of them!)

But with the game being so hard to get through, the designers were kind enough to include secret bonus levels that, if you complete them fast enough, will warp you further forward (For an idea of one of them, just go to the first level and jump to the left into the water and keep going, you will land on an island with a fruit there, shoot the fruit three times, when it would normally explode (shoot these fruit twice to get maximum health gain from them).

Where normally they explode, this one warps you to a secret level where you have to fly a helicopter, these are useful in getting to grips with a few of the vehicles in the game because if you have the ability to get to the end of the game, each level requires use of a new vehicle (You have a motorbike, a tank, a unicycle, a UFO, and more).

You also have a variety of power ups available which transfer you into various guises, you have one that turns you into a fireman, allowing you to cause plenty of damage with ease, a rocket launcher guy that fires rockets in four directions, and a strange Sherlock Holmes looking one which fires a blunderbuss.

The main portion of the game however will be you trying to restore all of your flags to their former glory on the main island as, once you obtain your own flag, you find the fleas (yes, fleas) have taken your flags down and put their own ones up. It is up to you to eliminate every flea on each level and raise your flag up the pole once more. To do this you fire at each flea, which means firing your arms and legs at them each time.

The real trouble comes when you get to having to fire at targets to get to different areas, as when you do so you lose the body part you fired into the target until you can get to the hanger it is on to collect it. This is fine when the hanger is right beside the target. It's less alright when you are required to fire your legs at two seperate targets and have to get across the level before you get them back, mainly because with no legs you bounce everywhere. This makes what would have been a very easy area into one of the hardest in the game.

As a whole, Plok is one of those games I can come back to again and again, and while there are a few levels that tend to grate on me, the majority are fun and lively, plus with how unique the game is (I'm yet to see one that does what it did) it always makes it an enjoyable play.

8/10

Not perfect by any stretch, but exceptionally underated (or even totally unknown) by so many, it deserves to be played and fully enjoyed by all.

I think Rainz' biggest problem is that he's often on shows and does the general big man thing of not really wrestling and just doing a few moves, and plays up to the crowd more than anything. I actually feel he would be a huge benefit if he just dropped the face act and did a straight angry big man act who plows through everyone in short matches to get to the top guy, before having a fued before finally being beaten by the lead face. It's generic, but in local feds it wont matter because the kids will love the angle.

I also would be surprised if he honestly thought of himself as a great wrestler, but I don't think he's crap, just someone who needs to perhaps place himself in a better role that suits his style more.

Okay, review time.

Despite being a rather well known platformer. I've never played World Of Illusion surprisingly enough, so I had no clue how the game itself actually handled.

Onto the game itself, I actually sort of knew what to expect thanks to an old video I had which showed previews for various games. So I sort of knew what the first levels would be like. (and it turns out up above the vid's been named, so thanks for that).

Controls:

Pretty easy to get used to, and aren't an issue in playing the game, however I wasn't a fan of having jump and run at opposite ends of the controller. Not that you ever really needed the run button except for when the roof starts lowering, and perhaps on the Alice In Wonderland levels.

Graphics:

For a Megadrive game they're pretty good, nothing that would make you look at the game and go rushing to buy it, but it's still relatively well done.

Sound:

Again, for what it was, the sound is pretty good. It's rare to get really great sounding music on the Megadrive (and off the top of my head I can only really think of Sonic, Streets Of Rage, and ToeJam & Earl as being great. Although the intro theme for Eternal Champions is still perhaps the greatest). So as a whole the music and sounds are well done.

The game as a whole was rather fun, if on the easy side. But as it's more geared towards the younger generation that's understandable. The only problem I really had was the damned shark boss, but then when I worked out the best tactic (just fire as rapidly as possible in his direction) he was ridiculously easy as well.

The biggest issue I had with the game is what I feel were just "filler" sections. Which were basically the magic carpet and the bubble parts (especially the transitional one screen bubble section which just served to waste time), those sections were generally dull and were easily rushed through, just serving to be annoying if you died in a later part of that level. The game would have been just as good without those levels in it, and perhaps actual platforming in their place.

It was actually a rather enjoyable game, if rather short, and while there's the option of playing as Donald and having some different sections in each level, or playing two players and getting different sections again, it's not really got any great replayability in it to make it worth me attempting to do so with Donald or dragging a friend into it. But as a quick one off play through it succeeds massively. Just don't expect to be struggling to complete it, or to be able to play it repeatedly after you've done so.

If I had to give it a straight out of ten... 6/10 it does what it's meant to do, however it's too short even for a game aimed at the younger generation, and has sections which just serve to delay you from getting to the good parts, both of which pull the game down.

Now, I

1) I'm guessing they check beforehand anyway, but what the hell do you do when you're that high up and all of a sudden it starts to rain?

I actually noticed that when he's getting near the top the voiceover guy points out that he's checking the weather because there's no quick way down if there's a storm... wouldn't you be checking that shit BEFORE you're 1600 feet in the air and unable to get down quickly? The latest possible time to be checking the weather forecast would be as you exit the lift, any point after that is just too damned late.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txdv_oNq81I...player_embedded

 

You think your commute to work is bad? Fuck that.

I don't care if the richest person in the world offered me all of their cash, you'd not have me making that climb, no fucking way. I'd step out of the lift at the 1600 feet mark take one look down and be right back in the lift.

and lets not forget Four Doinks vs Bam Bam Bigelow, Headshrinkers & Bastion Booger from survivor series 93 \/

 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5kvn3_fo...elow-head_sport

I still love that match, and I have no clue why.

So you've got a singles match, a "triple threat" (or "3 way dance"), a "fatal four way" and a "6 pack challenge". What's a 5 man match?

A fuck up.

Guys, can we just ignore Staniforth for once? Let him have his rant, and then let the thread continue in the right direction? Considering what the thread is, a huge bit of stupidity slapped in the middle of it with pointless bickering will just detract from the thread as a whole. There's more than enough previous Petey/PTW threads you can pull up to rip him a new one in there.

I don't think a bit fuss has been made, it just feels like it because everyone and their mother seems to be saying "why does everyone have those clown avatars?" Rather than taking time to pay attention.

However I'm yet to hear a convincing reason as to why he shouldn't have been given the suspension, considering he'd been nothing but useless for months prior to it, and that was a post in exceptionally bad taste that it didn't matter who said it, they would have been getting a suspension. Whether it was Seven or some mong who had just signed up.

Okay then, I'm back. Countdowns to continue imminently....

 

When

 

When will first place be announced ?

After second place has been announced.

Give the guy a break, he's doing something for nothing, and puts some serious effort into it as well. He's allowed to do things other than this list.

I'd say it was along the lines of the ones with it chose to put it there, the ones without chose not to.

Why's everyone got that clown face as their picture at the moment?

 

Neil suspended Mr Seven for having an opinion.

 

In which topic was the post which led to the suspension?

http://ukff.com/index.php?showtopic=121625...t&p=2202533

That specific post, and I still say Neil was bang on the money with it.

At a 3CW show earlier this year, he was forced to use the name "Surfin' Barry C" in his squash defeat instead, since it was explained to him that his previous name was stupid, didn't make sense, and had no relevance.

 

Am I alone in actually liking the name Surf Graffiti?

No, it would be appear him and his family like it as well.

"See Suwa's promo on British wrestling. They are OK, at best, when they are the ones in peril, but their offense looks weak and I only worry that someones going to get hurt"

They did, it was Shane wasn't it? That's what the write up said anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow0Sb31lyq4

 

He's having people on right?

 

Dillkid, I'm having visions of this being you in 15 years. Please lad, don't make it so.

Don't worry. I wouldn't even think of turning out like that.

I want to come in contact with fanny, and be normal.

You're on a wrestling forum. You're never going to be normal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXnWWq2r66E...player_embedded

 

Survival Guide for Live Events.

In the words of Ole Anderson: "holy balls!". "If your sitting next to a hot girl and she wants to talk to you ..." fuck off mate. Imagine bringing a lass back with all that shite cluttering the place up. You cant even get away with being "ironic" in situations like that.

If you're a 30 year old wearing Cena gear at a wrestling event and you somehow manage to wind up sat next to a lass and get away with chatting her up, well what's in your house no longer matters as you've either pulled a munter, or you're the luckiest moron alive.

Spent about two hours earlier playing Rabbids Go Home on the Wii with the landlord's wife (as he was playing WoW, and there was sod all better to do).

It's only a tenner in Asda at the moment apparently, but it's pretty fun. I wouldn't advise playing it solo, but with a mate to play it with it's a good laugh. I would, however, advise not playing for two hours only to think "Hang on, we began this game without being able to save as there wasn't enough space on the Wii memory... bollocks".

Mebbe, but it was more pointing out that anyone who did that would be announcing that's what they are. Which is also why I don't think anyone's done it. Yeah there are some twats on here, but most at least act as adults (and those that don't get removed in short order anyway).

I said no-one's done it. It was me that said it, see it's up there?

Other than play the game? No. I'd also like to think that people actually are adult enough to not deliberately try and fuck a game up that people are enjoying.

You mean basically announce that they're a cunt who, because they don't like something means nobody else is meant to? Yeah...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciYk-UwqFKA

Even though it turns out to be advertising his DVD by the end of it, it's still a damned good video.

T.J. Perkins (aka PUMA who I haven't seen in years) vs. Mr. Aguila (aka Essa Rios who looks shite):

Top marks to Aguila for using Hammerfall's Hearts On Fire as an intro. But is that definitely Essa Rios? He really does look like shit if it is.

Ahh, fair enough. I'm paying that close attention to all the games (2 here, 1 on another forum, and 3 on another) I think my mind's sodded off for the day.