Willow

[Phillyman]

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Willow

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[Areala]

I loved this little Zelda-wannabe. Spent hours and hours playing through this game, and beating it was quite the accomplishment in my mind.

The graphics of the grass and trees blowing in the wind when the enemies arrived in a scene, I thought, were really well done. And who didn't love throwing acorns at enemies to turn them to stone?

*huggles*

Areala

[Gnash]

This game was good. Even though it went really different from the movie. It was really well done for the time.

[Mister Zero]

Why have I never played this?! I better get on that..

I liked the arcade game!

[Gnash]

It's quite different from the arcade one. Like someone mentioned above, the NES version is more of a Zelda clone. Except it has more NPCs and the graphics are better than Zelda. Not as fun but fun enough.

[tinman]

O the memories, played the hell outta that bugger

[Schloss Ritter]

Yeah, it looked interesting in Nintendo Power (not that they didn't also hype poor games). Looked like a rare case of a movie tie-in being good for once.

[JonnyCGood]

Willow is fascinating for a few reasons. First it's a movie adaption of a sorta neat fantasy film that's kind of under-rated and it's a pretty good game in itself. Second, it was the last game directed by Akira Kitamura (mega man 1/2 direct) before leaving Capcom. However for some baffling reason the game was not talked about or reviewed in many magazines despite getting a world-wide release. Wikipedia only lists 5 reviews and half aren't even English!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_(video_game)

[Blake00]

On 5/8/2009 at 11:44 PM, Phillyman said:

 

Retromags Presents!

Willow

 

 

 

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Can someone fix the link? I wanna see this! I loved the film so much as a kid and I think I have a rom copy of the game somewhere but I never did get around to playing it as I know so little about it due to the lack of advertising!

[JonnyCGood]

The link changed, but it's here.

[releasethedogs]

I played it as a child but I never got past the weird boar enemy.

[JimJam78]

Weirdly, Jeff Gertmann just played this on his video series ranking all NES games.  It seemed interestingly, particularly as a semi-competent move tie-in game; really odd to see that early.

 

[Blake00]

Can't be worse than the Willow TV show.. watched it the other day.. broke my inner 80s child's heart! Will be hard to wipe that from my mind the next time I watch the original film.