It just prevents you from approaching the dragon and carrying out your ostensible mission to kill him. Plain and simple.In Serpents, however, the dragon's fire doesn't harm you. But no, Top Hunter is just a childish little platformer with clumsy controls. Which wouldn’t have been the case, if it featured at least a small droplet of the specific humor we know from the Metal Slug, because then one could easily take it as a parody and satire exactly like the MS series. The infantile and cartoon-ey graphics completely kills that for me, though. And it’s really a shame, because I think the premise of a bounty hunter duo, hunting down space pirates, was cool. That’s where all the basic ideas of this 1994 piece got completely polished and ready to rock’n’roll. That’s what the Top Hunter could (and should) have looked like, but didn’t. Duh! It’s 1994, I want to play as the cool blonde chick, damn!Īll and all, if you’d ask me for my opinion, I’d rather play the whole Metal Slug all over again instead of Top Hunter. Predator, you’re stuck with this ancient mechanics from Mario, where player one plays one character and the player two plays the second character, and second character only. Instead of a character choice dialogue á la Metal Slug or Alien vs. The most irritating thing, however, is the fact that although the game features two playable characters, if you play solo you can’t choose which one you’d like to play. Weapons dropped by dead enemies are picked up by crouching instead of traditionally pressing attack button (which is a unspoken convention of the brawler genre). Jump button gets easily confused with the ‘switch lane’ button. Two kinds of punch attack on one button would have probably be ok, I guess, but it would have make sense for a human being to have super-flexible hands that can protract ten times its normal length in the first place, which it doesn’t. And the control scheme itself is nothing too complicated, really, after all it was meant to be played by kids, right? Yet-as I’ve said already-the actual controls feel incredibly clumsy.
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As it is usual with SNK titles, the game explains to you how to play it at the beginning. Which brings me to the controls and gameplay as such. How the hell is that a good thing, though? On the contrary, it is one of the most clumsiest gameplay mechanics I’ve ever seen in a video game! It’s like the devs wanted to do a classic isometric brawler originally, but then found the programming behind it to be too much of a hassle and said: well, screw this, let’s do two platformers in one! Geez! Now, what the actual - Each level basically consists of two parallel routes, between which you can freely switch by pressing one of the game buttons. The critics of the time also praised the game for the player’s ability to jump from the foreground into the background. The screen resolution of the original NeoGeo cabinets kind of hurts one’s eyes today-but being harsh on the game only for that wouldn't be really fair, because the main reason it looks so jagged and pixel-ey is, that the imagery wasn’t supposed to be projected on a flat screen but on a CRT. Visuals are exactly what would one expect from SNK and their NeoGeo hardware, and indeed, they fall nothing short of gorgeous. Yet, it doesn’t quite feel as good yet-remember that whole two years separate the two games. Being somewhat a spiritual predecessor to the 1996 Metal Slug, playing Top Hunter will probably feel like a deja vú to all the veteran gamers experienced with the Metal Slug series-really, the omnipresent Metal-Slug-ish touch is already there and you’re aware of it. Now, I’m not going to be all that much positive about Top Hunter at all. Upon its release, the game received mainly above average ratings, uniformly praising its graphics and short yet enjoyable gameplay. Top Hunter: Roddy and Cathy is a side-scrolling platformer released by SNK in 1994. The duo travels through four worlds and their task is always the same: eliminate one of the four Klapton bosses. Galaxy’s most experienced bounty hunters, Roddy and Cathy are called up to deal with colonial piracy, embodied in the group of thugs know as ‘Klaptons’.
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