Elfmania
| Developer: Terramarque | Graphics: |
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| Publisher: Renegade | Sound: |
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| Year: 1994 | Difficulty: |
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| Genre: Fighting | Lastability: |
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| Number of players: 2 simultaneous | Rating: |
6/10 | |
An adorable fighting game starring elves who smack each other around while squeaking.
The six protagonists face off through a pseudo “board game” mechanic, where you move across a map and select a region to “conquer”. This boils down to a glorified game of tic-tac-toe: win six duels in six adjacent, aligned areas to claim victory.
During combat, you can grab coins to hire a stronger, more capable champion for your next match (since the characters are deliberately unbalanced, at least in single-player mode).
It’s all just window dressing—refreshing, admittedly—that fails to hide the game’s shortcomings for long: too few moves and sluggish controls make boredom set in far too quickly.
Still, hats off to the artist for the gorgeous, animated backdrops (complete with parallax scrolling).
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