So I remember when I was a kid, whenever I went to my father's place I would be psyched to play some Mega Drive, or Genesis for you americans (I had the Nintendo consoles at mom's, the Mega Drive at dad's). One of these games was Comix Zone. I liked it back then, too. What I remember most about it is probably the difficulty and the music. Fast forward to this christmas when I got a Mega Drive Flashback, plug it in, and launch Comix Zone again. Holy shit, it holds up perfectly well.
In Comix Zone you play as Sketch Turner, a comic book artist who finds himself plunged into his own stories where he has to fight villains he drew himself. As you play the villain will draw new obstacles that you have to overcome, and there is a lot of dialogue in the form of text bubbles, which makes it feel more like an interactive visual novel and less like a game.
Everything is more or less perfect; the cartoony yet realistic visuals, the fluid animations, the way you jump from page to page in a comic book. I love the grunge-y music and the sound effects. The music is a style I've never really heard in any other game, but it fits perfectly with the mood. And regarding the sound effects there's something immensely satisfying about the sound when you finish a combo and Sketch screams out. It also has sampled voices which is pretty cool for a Mega Drive game.The gameplay is super fun. Even though the combat system is not that advanced it feels like a fighting game in its own right. You can't just mash things out. And the difficulty is on another level. In the later levels you will get destroyed, but it's a pretty short game so it doesn't matter. I never managed to complete it but I think it has like five levels.
Anyone else like this as much as I do?