#Nidhogg 1 parent review series

The “map screen” resembles something out of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island on the Super NES, but it’s not really a stage select, at least not for Arcade Mode. A lot of that was a few of the stages I had scenarios where I just could not get off of a certain screen as the CPU and I kept trading control back and forth…usually because I kept getting the bow and arrow and I hate that weapon, or the CPU kept getting the bow and arrow.

While I’ve never played the original game, I ended up finishing a run through Arcade Mode on basically my third attempt and had a final time of around twenty seven minutes. That’s really all there is too it Nidhogg isn’t that long of a game, though I won’t say it’s easy. Needless to say I’ve had this happen quite a few times because I kept forgetting it could happen. The drawback here though is if you fire an arrow at the same height as your opponent’s weapon, the arrow will ricochet back at you and can kill you. It takes a second to draw back the arrow but you can aim it at three heights, there’s no limit to how many arrows you have, and you can still throw the bow itself.

In the right hands this is pretty lethal. That may seem broken but as stated it’s the slowest weapon to use and in later stages your opponent might throw their weapon the instant you lower the broadsword. Attacking low has the advantage of being able to disarm your opponent entirely. It’s also the only weapon that only has two attack heights: high and low. The broadsword is the slowest weapon but can also be difficult to avoid. The dagger is probably the worst weapon as it has limited range, though its main strength is that it’s the quickest weapon to attack with though not by much. Early on that’s all you have but after several stages you’ll start to gain access to other weapons: a bow and arrow, a broadsword, and a dagger. While this is a fencing game, you actually have more than just a fencing sabre. For a fencing game this is pretty violent…and I’m okay with that. If your opponent’s knocked down you can stomp him to death. If you’re disarmed you can just kick the crud out of your opponent if you can get close enough. The drawback is that more often than not you’ll just impale yourself on their weapon. If you’re able to hit your opponent he’ll drop his weapon if he has one and be temporarily stunned. You can also kick your opponent either by crouching and attacking or while jumping. reward as throwing your weapon can take out your opponent from a distance, but it also leaves you defenseless. You can also hold Up and hit B to just throw your weapon and hope it connects. When you have a weapon you can use Up and Down to aim your weapon at two or three different heights (we’ll get into weapon types in a moment), then attack to hopefully hit your opponent somewhere that he’s not aiming his weapon. You actually have several different ways of attacking with and without your weapon. The Arcade Mode has thirteen stages to complete which can be completed in a rather short period of time. Believe it or not, that’s the gist of the game no matter which mode you play. When you die however, you’re not completely out of the game you’ll soon respawn and can once again attempt to kill your opponent to temporarily remove him from your path. Once one of you reach your goal the stage ends. Here you basically fight for control of the stage as once one of you dies, the other person will gain control of the stage and can start moving towards their goal (going right for player one and left for the CPU or player two in multiplayer games). Each stage has several areas and both you and the opponent start out in the center with your weapons. Arcade is the single player mode of the game and works pretty much like the original game. For each mode you can customize your character to give them a unique look and color. Nidhogg 2 has three game modes: Arcade, Local, and Online.

#Nidhogg 1 parent review series

Time to see if I’ve been missing out on a fun series or if it’s a good thing I never picked up the original. While I never played Nidhogg, I recently got the opportunity to check out its sequel: Nidhogg 2.

Nidhogg is a fencing game where you go through each stage while defeating or getting by each opponent as you go. That’s kind of puzzling considering the characters look like they came straight from a Colecovision game and I’m usually into games that look like the classics.