Customer Reviews

Deadly Towers

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3 star:		(2)
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1 star:		(2)

 

 

This game has its diehard supporters, but it's one of the NES games I put in the realm of unplayable. It takes way too much effort to get into this game, involving extensive map-making, invisible labyrinth entries, threat of being randomly dumped into an area with monsters too strong for you to kill...I've sat down with this one several times, and none of those times was I tempted to expend the effort.

It looks terrible. The enemies are all silly looking clouds, blobs, or spidery things, which are still ridiculously stronger than your terrible main character. Everything has a thick black outline and looks like it was drawn in crayon. The sound is worse. Not much in the way of sound effects, and the music is grating and loops quickly.

People say it's one of the worst games of all time, and yes, it is kinda crappy, but it's not that bad.

Bad points:
-You start off too weak
-When he throws a single knife, it looks luike it's coming from his penis
-You can easily get killed because of the fact that you start off too weak

Good points:
-The music's good
-Surprisingly high replay value
-The cover art for the japanese version (called Mashou) is awesome (Probably a million times better than the game itself)

Overall, I give it 2 and a half out of five. Not thad bad, but it does deserve its place in history.

I bought this game in the late 80's, and still remember it as the worst purchase I ever made for the NES. The graphics are horrible, even for that era. The cover shows this muscle-bound hero hefting a sword, in the actual game you look like a short, fat dwarf that shoots swords out of his stomach. The gameplay itself is boring. The monsters are impossibly hard and the dungeons too vast to navigate, and the game has no built-in mapping assistance. There is actually an article in cracked-dot-com which ranks this game as the worst game of all time for the NES. I agree.

I used WIKI strategy for a little help. Without a manual...this is unplayable. I had to find what items and where. I tried to beat the game quickly and get to the RUBIAS the main boss but I ended up being shy on adequate Armour. Sadly I found a code which gave me the highest items but the rest I did on my own. I took a lot of health with me to Rubias. I enjoy the fact that this game can be beat.

i used to play this game for hours. my brother and i loved it. it isn't for those who want an easy game that u can beat in 1 night. u need to get really involved. there are dungeons u must go into ,but they are invisible and not easy to get out of. my advice is getting yourself a tablet and make amap of both where to enter the dungeons. then more importantly drawing a map of the dungeons and there exits . it would be almost impossible to beat this game without doing that. if you want a REAL challenging, involved, and difficult game to beat, this game is for you ! i almost feel like buying the old nintendo system just so i could play it again !
i wouldn't recommend this game to 10 and under because of it's difficulty in beating.