El Viento

by Sega

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• ASIN: B00002ST70
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,509 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Manufacturer Description

The year is 1928. In a distant galaxy a monstrous entity watches and waits. Though his purposes are beyond the understanding of mankind the mighty Hastur lives only to destroy with the power to easily obliterate an entire planet. On Earth he is worshipped as a god by a bizarre cult called the Hastur Group whose evil purpose is simple: to summon Hastur to Earth so that civilization may be wiped out and a new order begun-an order dictated by the cult of Hastur! To summon Hastur the cult plans to use the newly-built Empire State Building as a sacrificial shrine. The only person alive who can stop them is Annet a young sorceress from the mountains of Peru who has telepathically harnessed a portion of Hastur's vast power. She controls the elements of the air possessing the magic of El Viento...The Wind. But the Hastur Group has enlisted the aid of the most dangerous mob of its day: the gangsters of Vincente DeMarco New York's supreme underworld kingpin.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The quest begins... for El Viento, July 10, 2002

By 

Winston Blakely (bronx, n.y. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: El Viento (Video Game)

El Viento is game that deals with the gathering of mystical
energies. I have played this game,several years ago and
found it interesting enough, as I found most of Sega of
America games. It kept me going while I was waiting for
Shinobi. I tend to like any game with martial arts and a
mystical background, since I'm a big fan of Marvel Comics
Dr. Strange,Master of the Mystic Arts. El Viento certainly
fits the bill, if you like this kind of stuff...I highly recommend
it.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Mindless and forbidding, January 15, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: El Viento (Video Game)

El Viento is the precursor of Earnest Evans, and sports similarities with that God-forsaken game in all areas. El Viento suffers from a variety of problems, which I will disect below:

Concept - cliche and boring. You are the only one who can save the world and so you set off. Blah. All the areas are strangely similar in coloring (washed-out pastels), and you never get any idea where you are or what you are doing there. The main heroine is so generic that you will have trouble telling her from the background. The "magic powers" you get as back-up weapons are pitifully absurd and generic (a bolt of fire, an arch of energy, a string of bubbles that roll on the floor...). Thank God they didn't equip her with the almighty lightning bolt...

Control - horrible. Shaky, unresponsive, and otherwise malfunctional.

Graphics - blah. Objects are frequently out of focus, proportion, color, etc. The game suffers from HORRENDOUS slowdown, which, in places, will prevent you from moving at all. Colors are drab, and very, very similar to each other.

Balance - the game balances out lack of AI with hundreds upon hundreds of nausiatingly absurd enemies that cause such slowdown as if the game's designers were decidely trying to put the player to sleep. Frequently you won't be able to walk, or fire your weapon, and all the while the opposing terrors will nick away at your health, killing you almost by default.

The only reason to buy this pathetic game would be for laughs, like renting Santa Claus Conquers the Martians or Robot Monster on video.