Picked up a trio of PCE games from Jasonbar, Aoi Blink, Energy, and Gomola Speed. Energy was purchased simply to see if it was as bad as they say.
It is.
Right off the bat, it starts with a "cinema" opening that cannot be skipped. Even after the game is loaded and you've just died, it starts all over again. Bizarrely enough, you have to press a button to get past certain bits of dialog in the game, but half the time it doesn't work! You just sit there, mashing buttons randomly until the game decides to advance you to the next part!
Once you're in the game, it gets even more broken. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the jumping mechanics of the game, and a lot of moves stutter, causing your character to move around in a really herky-jerky sort of way. When you get hit by enemies (at least, these early ones), there's no visual or audible clues; you just lose some of your life bar. That makes it hard to tell when my sprite is getting too close to enemies. Sometimes it seems like I passed by one safely but then I'll notice my lifebar has depleted slightly. Bleh.
I'm gonna play it a bit more, mostly because I'm a glutton for punishment, but that's about it. What a weird train wreck of a game.
