If two people want to experience the game together, what are they supposed to do? Swap the controller after every level? Have someone else beat Story Mode? It boggles my easily boggled mind. There’s obviously a lot of love put into the final product, even though some decisions, such as locking out co-op until the main story is completed, are staggeringly daft. I definitely prefer it to no Pocky & Rocky. Pocky & Rocky Reshrined is exactly as it promises: more Pocky & Rocky. It’s in line with Natsume’s other revivals more of a love letter to fans than a siren call to new players.Įven still, I don’t want to get too down on it. It’s at least as solid as the game it takes after, but it’s not a home run. Pocky & Rocky Reshrined is good, don’t doubt that. That perhaps this would turn on a whole new generation of gamers to the series. Pocky and Rocky is an arcade style top-down style shooting game starring a girl and a raccoon. Leading up to release, I suppose I was naive in hoping that maybe Pocky & Rocky could make a comeback. Pocky & Rocky was a deceptively difficult game, so even though it makes the game easier to topple in a couple of hours, I can’t say I’m too torn up about the added checkpoints. Here, however, if you make it to the boss, you’re allowed to try again from there. In the original title, if you died, you were back to the beginning of the level. There are additional checkpoints that make the game a bit more accessible. (359) Action-Shooter 1992 US title: Pocky & Rocky Japanese title: KiKi. + If the item does not come up to your expectations, we will. Understandable, if that’s the case, but no less disappointing. Episode 162 : Pocky and Rocky 2 (SNES) Retrovaniacs. Product Details: + Game Name: Pocky & Rocky 2 Payment. It’s almost as though they looked at how long it took them to make the first two levels and realized they wouldn’t be able to complete development at that same quality before the deadline, so they dialed things back.

Similar to the front-loading of impressive backgrounds, Pocky & Rocky Reshrined stops throwing sub-bosses at you pretty early. The bosses are a bit underwhelming, upstaged by some of the new enemies in the levels. There are very old problems here, such as an uneven difficulty that mar the experience, if only slightly. Aside from that, Pocky & Rocky Reshrined just isn’t as good as it could have been.

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