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Toejam and earl zeker de moejte ma wel den 2
alle drie in feite kei goe
review:
This was the game that convinced me to finally buy a Genesis when I started to get tired of my nintendo. The crisp graphics, the weird protagonists, and the deliciously bizarre assortment of enemies combined to make a game I could not resist.
So the heroes are two alien friends named Toejam and Earl from the planet Funkotron. While they're out for a spin in Toejam's spaceship, Earl talks his friend into letting him drive and immediately crashes into an asteroid, wrecking the ship and forcing them to land on the most dangerous planet in the galaxy: Earth. Now they have to outsmart the humans and put their ship back together.
So you're Toejam (who's a little faster) or Earl (who has a slightly longer life bar), wandering around floating islands looking for a piece of your spaceship (if there's one on the level, and you will be told), or the elevator to the next highest island. All while looking for presents containing special weapons like tomato-shooting slingshots, boom boxes to make your enemies dance, or wings to let you fly (and avoiding presents that contain bad things like school books that put you to sleep, rain clouds that zap you with lightning, and the instantly fatal Total Bummer). You'll also be ducking devils, hula dancers, giant hamsters, dentists, mail box monsters, ugly guys with lawnmowers and even hordes of battle chickens with tomato guns and haunted ice cream trucks.
That right there is a delightful package of weirdness, but it gets better. Besides having great graphics for a fairly early Genesis game, TJ&E also has excellent sound. The music isn't bad, but the real joy of the game's audio is the sound effects, from the Hallelujah chorus when you get an extra life to the mad scientist-like cackling of a dentist when he nails you with his drill.
A nice touch was the rank system, where you start off as a Weiner but become cooler and get a longer life bar with the more points you rack up. You also get an extra life for every three ranks you earn.
I'm sorry to say it's not all sunshine and roses in TJ&E, though. It's one of those games that doesn't give you a brief period of invincibility when you get hurt, allowing you to recover or get a head start running away from your enemy. If you get caught unaware against one of the ultra-cheap lawn mower men, you could insantly lose a life. And when you're on an island at the bottom of the screen and the elevator to the next level is one at the very top, it can annoying having to walk around every edge and risk falling back down to the level below that to find the secret passages you need to get where you need to go.
Toejam and Earl was my first Genesis love, and remains one of the best games that system ever had. Too bad its sequel wasn't nearly as legendary, but this game is definitely worth your time.
Echt de moeite
mor das ne sidescrolling beat em up.
ad:
kan er niks aan doen lol