Bandai FL Crazy Climbing

[TokyoBatman]

If any of you grew up playing Crazy Climber in the arcade, this is a nice compliment to that experience.

It keeps a lot of the same elements. The two joysticks and movement. The screen will scroll left and right for more width of the building. You have to dodge flower pots. Birds come through at the top of the screen and drop rocks that need to be avoided.

Unfortunately when you get to the top of the building on the 49th floor, a chopper doesn't take you away like the arcade game. But you get an animation dance and nice jingle.

You get 1,000 bonus points for reaching the top.

This game can be both fun and frustrating when you first start playing. The key is to move fast. The faster you move up, the less chance you will have of getting stuck by closed windows.

It can get annoying and your patience will wear thin when you start the game or you start a new climb and you get immediately stuck by closed windows around you.

The closed windows eventually spread, almost filling the building and your playing area, and your free fall death seems imminent.

After playing a lot, you can develop strategies to avoid the windowed in death. For example, taking purposeful damage to get knocked down, which can somewhat reset the playing area.

There will always be a RNG factor though. A window could suddenly close on you as your going up or close on your fingers as you're waiting for an opening. It sucks.

Billytherobot and I have been pushing the high score. If you can beat the game by getting a 19,900 and resetting back to zero. This is a big accomplishment.

All said, a fun and replayability vintage gem. Definitely worth buying/playing.


Ratings:(1-10) - Difficulty:(Easy, Average, Hard)

Graphics: 7
Sound: 6
Gameplay: 8.5
Difficulty: Average to Hard

Overall: 7.5