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What was FCI thinking!!?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: March 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ok, I was not stupid enough to go out and buy this game. If there's one thing I hate it's buying a game you think is gonna be at least bearable and finding out you were horribly wrong. I only rented this horrible excuse for a game. There's only one thing this game's good for, and that's to torture somebody. I keep an emulated copy and a copy of the soundtrack on my computer just for that purpose. Sometimes when I feel I've done something particularly dumb I punish myself in one of two ways, either by playing this game or by making myself listen to its horrible music. Anyway, let's break it down into categories.
Control 1-1000000. What, pray tell, is this? You hold down the A button and charge blindly into your enemies...at least you do if you want to inflict decent damage, and then more often than not you die. The instruction book calls this "switching between Attack and Defend mode." What I call it is pure [junk]! Whoever did the controls to this game must have been hopped up on dope!
Gameplay 1-10. Run blindly into enemies, collecting no reward save a very rare and usually lame level gain. A horrible attempt at an Action/RPG.
Audio 1-100000000000000. Aaaaaaahhhhh! Make it stop! It's just six horrible songs. Three of these are horribly mutilated versions of the Indiana Jones theme song which loop endlessly every five or so seconds. One of the songs sounds far too much like Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, while the next sounds like that Place in France rhyme from grade school. The last song is played when our...uhm...hero? dies. It's far too cheery.
Story 1-100000000000000. So some princess chick rules some kingdom with three gems. One day some evil dude comes and steals one of the gems, releasing Boralis/Varalys, an evil demon dude who can't remember what his name is. The princess chick gets turned into three fairies (boy this is horrible), and Sir Jim of the Disfunctional Sword is called on to save the day.
Final verdict: Stay away from this game!

The worst game of all time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I had the misfortune of getting this game back at the end 1989 for my NES. At that time, I also owned an Atari 800XL with Ultima III: Exodus and Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, which are really enchanting RPG, if you don't mind the crude graphics, so I was hoping Hydlide would be another Ultima, but boy was I wrong. Let's get with the music: it's some of the worst video game music I have ever heard! Cheap ripoff of the Indiana Jones theme song which keeps repeating itself over and over every 15 seconds. I never wanted to play this game unless the volume was turned off because the music will get on your nerves in no time flat. This "music" (which I refuse to think of as music) sounds like the worst garbage you'd hear from a music box. The graphics are very crude looking, and even for the 8-bit NES capability, it's really horrible (the graphics of Bionic Commando is miles better than this garbage). Heck, even the old Atari 8-bit adapation of the Ultima series looks better. How about playability? Well you have to run in to slimes and other monsters and press the A button to try to destroy them, but more chances than not, you'll end up killed. Often if you stand in the wrong vegetation, or you stand in the cemetary, your hit points drain without even monsters touching you (until you gain enough experience points). Basically in this game, you're supposed to collect all three fairies before you're able to kill the dragon. It took me ten years to finally win the game. That was in 1999, I finally won the game because I was finally able to find that third fairy. I didn't realize I was supposed to kill two wizards at once with the wave spell to get that last fairy. Perhaps the worst of this game is when you want to save it. You need to obtain an unnecessiarly long password and write it down. More chances than not you have written the password incorrectly and you pretty much lost what you accomplished in this horrible game. The Ultima series were wonderful, spellbinding RPGs (as long as you owned the Atari, Apple, or Commodore 64, rather than the NES or SNES adaptation). Hydlide is now regarded as not only the worst fantasy RPG ever made, but one of the worst ever made for NES. I have no idea what the makers of this game were thinking. Perhaps they were trying to cash in on the Legend of Zelda fad of the time and fell horribly flat. I have played much better NES games, including their adaptation of Willow, as well as Shadowgate, which means you are much better off checking out those games than Hydlide, unless you want to see just how bad games can get.

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