Kid Chameleon review - Sega Megadrive
The local arcade is packed with kids, all lining up to play the latest, most realistic video game they've ever seen. It's called Wild Side, and it uses holographic images to immerse the player in a strange world. But there's a problem... Kids are literally getting sucked into the game, and now several of them are trapped. 
Retrospective comments
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The first thought that enters your head when playing Kid Chameleon is probably 'Mario Clone'. The game steals ideas from Nintendo's finest, such as jumping on the heads of enemies and bashing item boxes from below. It's not the first game to copy Mario and it certainly won't be the last, but back in the early 90's when the Sega/Nintendo war was at its height, it seemed like Sega was running out of ideas. |
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Godpikachu - 10 Feb 2009, 13:27 GMT
While kid chameleon most definatley borrows heavilly from titles like super mario 3, it does offer a little variation on the original source material.
Each helmet has its own uses and failings, which helps to keep gamplay fresh, the problem is is that you never know what helmet youre gonna get, and sometimes when you are bashing away at prize boxes, you can end up getting a crappy helmet that you dont want.
Some of the secret areas require certain helmets to access, which is fine in a way but when you have the helmet you want and then hit a prize block expecting diamonds but instead ending up with a different helmet, it can be pretty annoying.
Levelwise, this game is HUGE, with multiple paths to complete the game (something of a novelty for the time), but the lack of a password system or save games renders this concept moot as every time you switch off your MD, you start again from the very beginning, which is annoying as hell.
Graphics wise, its what youd expect to see in an early 90s MD game, the sprites are colourful and cartoony, the backgrounds and terrain features are nicely defined so you know where you should be jumping, but one complaint i have here is that the enemies dont have much variation, you face the same bad guys over and over but they are just recoloured.
This isn't usually a bad thing, except that the different coloured baddies dont get any extra powers from levelling up other than they are slightly harder than their lower level counterparts.
Overall, this isn't a bad game, its certainly not a brilliant game either, but, its playable and challenging, while still being somewhat fun to play as well.
A good game to have in your MD collection, but if you're just looking for a platformer, try out the sonic games first.
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