Dylen J. Marin's Gaming Blog

Maniac Mansion is a very interesting game for someone like me, as I'm much more used to the fast-paced gameplay that comes with 2022 gaming. For me, the game started out a bit slower than I would have at first thought, but to be fair this game did come out in 1987 so it's not something that bothers me. The overall story of the game is good, although I didn't get to find out much about it since I kinda struggled with understanding the tasks. For me, I found that there was almost a bit of a learning curve since it wasn't really clear (to me at least) what you could actually do. Plus whenever you did learn what you had to accomplish there would be, 4 or five steps to it. You find the object, you walk to the object, you examine the object, and you decide whether to keep it or not. I got tedious very fast. Overall, with how the story plays out, the characters that are introduced and the level of exploration that is available to you at the start of the game, I can safely rate...

      Impossible Mission is the type of game that requires amazing puzzle-solving skills, fast hand-eye coordination and just a great understanding of what the heck you're supposed to do in this game. In my time playing, I played through the game 4 times each time getting further and further before ultimately losing. At the start of the game, there is a robotic voice giving one of those classic "you're doomed" kinds of messages and then nothing. Just complete silence, there's no kind of 8-bit music playing, or any sort of instruction as to how to play. They basically just throw in with nothing.      Now the actual gameplay mechanics are quite interesting, you have one speed of running, which makes sense for the era of the game, you also have a very nicely animated front flip that acts as our jump and that's pretty much it. It's nothing too fancy but it works really well for the game itself.  The one thing that got me utterly confused was the puzz...