Stumbling together through Snake, Rattle 'n' Roll - Part 3

[davidn]

Twenty minutes... for two levels, if you can believe it. kjorteo and I struggle together through the final stages of this alleged game, this artefact of pain distilled into the form of a cartridge. In it, we climb the last ice mountain stage (being more successful at going downwards), and then fight against one of the most ridiculously unfair bosses ever created by man or beast. Wish us luck... not with the game, because we've already done that - just with the recovery.

http://youtu.be/iOQc2cCQ-78

As an addendum, shockingly, Terotrous on the GameFAQs boards posted an entirely legitimate run of it - he gets through the game impressively unscathed until the geyser/waterfall section, and then is absolutely destroyed by the six tiles of right-sloping ice at the top of level 10, which claim two continues on their own. Nintendo games just... did not like to be beaten.

Comments

[davidn]

There's nothing to forgive you for - hearing that is a great boost, not to mention the point of producing these videos :) Thank you!

I think that the total gameplay time was about two hours... but without save states (to restore after being set back by a survived fall) and the infinite lives cheat (to make the game possible), it would have been much, much longer. Somewhat unexpectedly, the game becomes much easier if you don't survive a fall, because you'll be restored to the last platform that you touched even if you just clipped it - if you fall down on those ice slopes at the end of level 10 and survive it, you've got a long climb back to the top.

[kjorteo]

Yeah, I think we accidentally abused that system a bit once we disregarded the checks and balances of "if you sacrifice a life to respawn on a platform you touched, eventually you're supposed to run out of lives." I still kind of feel bad about that--I mean, there were plenty of jumps I never actually legitimately made. Oh, well, I guess.