Reviews

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  will shand

  Oct 20, 2016

  The visuals, music and controls in this game are all headache inducing. Quick Look: https://youtu.be/qZJ2p28_VQ4
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  Zeikar

  Oct 21, 2016

  Not bad, pretty good nostalgia for SNES platformers Pros: +Nostalgia +Unreleased instant classic game +Good Price Cons: -suffers from the same emulation problems as Bubsy Two Fur -Audio is the specific problem, they used the same emulation engine as Bubsy Two Fur it seems and the audio is really choppy
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  adam

  Aug 21, 2017

  If you grew up in the 16-bit era this is a must have. Let's face it, there are loads and loads of games on Steam right now trying to pull on the nostalgia chords. Loads of pay for roms and emu packages of games you know and love, and tons of indie games developed in the likeness of games you know and love, but what those games can't deliver is what Dorke has in mass quantity; an authentically new SNES experience. This isn't a game like a SNES game. This isn't a SNES game you've beaten countless times. This is an authentic SNES title you never got to play. If it was unplayable it'd still be a wortha few bucks to check out, but given it's actually a decent game it's a gem of an experience. I'd say the closest thing to Dorke and Ymp is when you find a game that never came to your nation online and in your language or at least a fan patch. So what's the game actually like? It's decent, but nae great. If it did come out during the SNES days it definately wouldn't have excited me as much as it does now. It's slow, and hard, and some things are kind of lost in translation or just all out weird, but it's not horrible. The pair of characters over one PC is pretty neat. It may not be the only game to do something similar, but it is an interesting take and easy to do. You never have to think about which one you're going to use, just what you need to do and the pair takes care of the rest. My favorite thing about the game is the in game animations. There are quite a few animations that remind you not to take the game too seriously despite is being seriously difficult. The cutsenes are long, but I enjoyed them. I'd rather have them than not, though skipping would be nice sometimes. I'm not sure what Piko did to finish the game. It's clearly another rom+emu package. It's a bit of a hard game and I wasn't so taken with it that I wanted to prove I could beat it without cheats so I took the rom and uploaded it to my Recalbox build to play Dorke and Ymp with fast foward, rewind, shaders, save and load states, etc. I'm not sure why pay-for emulators have less than free ones, but they do and that's the case here. I definately advocate buying the rom to support Piko for bringing it to us, but once you have it play it on your favorite emulator because the one it comes with is bogus.
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  2nd Class Janitor - Wilco

  May 17, 2018

  Tags: Platformer Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library Note: Steam-Refund TLDR: Controls are broken out of box. Rebinds on Xbox360 works but is still broken. Had to press down on joypad to act as enter even though it was bound to start. Engine spazzes out in display settings permanently. Not much to say. Even getting a game started navigating the menus was hard. Despite a custom rebind I have to use an odd combination of keyboard and controller to be able to access all of the UI. (e.g. inventory uses keyboard, parts of movement keyboard another part uses remote) To make things worse the game has some news/update info about going in display modes to test with blurry aspect of game. So I tried pixel smoothing and it resized the window, got rid of the title/toolbar menu making the display function no longer accessible (its not an in-game feature more of an overlay toolbar from the window of the game) The game is blurrier with smoothing and I cannot resize or fullscreen. I tried reinstalling the game from scratch and the settings are somehow still being remembered. I decided to ask for a refund. I realize this is a dosbox port but the state it is in is not acceptable. It is a shame too because the goblin/demon sprites looked lovely, the music was charming, and the core gameplay looked like a good formula.
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  GUSTA99X

  Oct 15, 2018

  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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  MortimerNova

  Mar 25, 2021

  oh lord these controls...