LODE RUNNER USHINAWARETA MEIKYŪ
LODE RUNNER LOST LABYRINTH
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ロードランナー 失われた迷宮
©1990 Brøderbund
©1990 Pack-In-Video
Release : 1990-07-27 (¥5800)
HuCard (2 Mbits) PV1004
Action / Puzzle game
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Lode Runner Lost Labyrinth is the PC Engine's conversion of
Brøderbund's classic Lode Runner. The player assumes control
of a small character in a spacesuit, and the goal of the game is to
collect all the gold stolen by the malicious Bungeling Empire.
As expected, an army of killer robots and
other weird aliens mercilessly track down the player and try
to catch him before he succeeds in collecting the loot.
Although the lode runner is equipped with a laser-gun, the
weapon is not used to blast enemies but to melt down blocks.
The core of the gameplay lies in digging up holes and trapping enemies
in them (holes even collapse and fill in after a while, killing
anyone trapped in them). The game includes many other
features such as ladders, fake or indestructible blocks, ropes and so fort... some
stages do not even have robots wondering around, and the player has instead to
figure out how to collect all the gold without getting himself trapped. When all the
gold is gathered, an escape ladder appears and leads to the next area.
The game consists of fifty stages, and each level
can be accessed using a simple password,
and the backup Ram can also be used to save the player's progress. Just like with the
original game, Lode Runner Lost Labyrinth also features a level editor.
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Lode Runner Lost Labyrinth is nice, yet
straightforward conversion of Brøderbund's classic.
If you are a dedicated Lode Runner fan, then you will
feel right at home.
It is a solid game with the right balance of difficulty and novelty to keep you
entertained for a while. However, the game's concept itself has aged
a bit, and you quickly get the feeling of going through the same levels,
again and again (which has always been my only gripe with Lode Runner,
it quickly becomes way too repetitive).
Enemy graphics change from time to time but their
behavior is sadly always the same.
There's nothing really wrong about the game, but I feel that it could
have been a lot better.
For instance, I would also have loved to see larger
sprites on screen, the PC Engine could have easily handled them.
Although I think
Battle Lode Runner is a
much better game, I think that
Lode Runner Lost Labyrinth is a nice
conversion which wraps up most of, if not all, the features from the
original game, but nothing more.
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