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Devil World

デビルワールド
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Platform Famicom Year 1984
Publisher Nintendo Developer Nintendo
Region JP Language English
Tags Puzzle, Two Player
Platform Famicom
Year 1984
Publisher Nintendo
Developer Nintendo
Region JP
Language English
Tags Puzzle, Two Player

A maze puzzle game inspired by Pac-man where you control Tamagon, a green dragon. Each round is broken up into two stages. The first stage has you powering up by touching a cross so you can pick up all of the dots on screen. The second stage has you picking up and depositing Bibles to the center of the maze. While playing the screen pans around in four directions with enemies trying to stop you. Powering up or picking up a Bible allows you to breath fire to defend yourself.
 
Good Bad
  • Unique premise
  • Bonus levels add variety
  • Cute graphics
  • Movement of the maze is the bigger challenge
  • Too much going on
  • Can respawn onto an enemy
  • Limited replayability
Good
  • Unique premise
  • Bonus levels add variety
  • Cute graphics
 
Bad
  • Movement of the maze is the bigger challenge
  • Too much going on
  • Can respawn onto an enemy
  • Limited replayability
 
6 A unique puzzle game that is fun but difficult to play for long periods of time. Puzzle fans liking the simplicity of it's inspiration will be turned off by the complexity of it's gameplay.

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