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General Land Before Time / LBT PlayStation One Games
« on: October 25, 2020, 01:16:09 AM »
I didn't find the topic with discussion of the LBT PlayStation One games, so I've decided to create it. Sorry if the same topic exists
Thanks to Sneak who told me about this article on the LBT wiki, and I've learnt that there exist some LBT games. This topic is related only to the PlayStation Games.
This topic can contain spoilers!
So, I've tried to play The Land Before Time: Return to the Great Valley using ePSXe 1.9.0 and USB-gamepad.
Good game, even though the graphics are quite low-poly, but it is OK due to the age and the platform. The model of Spike is the most successful (and the less successful is the model of Cera) imo. Ducky has the most responsive controlling.
But I'm a bit disappointed. Maybe I've missed or didn't understand something, but let me explain.
Looks like I have been passed the whole game for less than 2 hours. I've played as every character from the "select a character" screen, and after the finishing cutscene of the last character, the game showed me "select a character" screen again. Now the selection of any character shows me only the finishing cutscene of the selected character and nothing else can be done. Is it a finish? Or maybe I missed something?
The game is very easy. No enemies, the levels are short and quite simple (except of a couple of places which were quite difficult to pass). Every character has the attacking action, but it is useless due to the absense of enemies. It is used only for activating the shooting flower which shoots the little stone and destroys the big stone, but the flower can be also activated by the headbutt.
I've saw some little creatures which can be attacked (snails, butterflies, dragonflies, etc.), but they were not harmful and couldn't be destroyed, they just moved to another place after attack. Also I've found a lot of plants, which could be attacked, but they just made a sound and nothing else. What is the point of these creatures and plants?
I thought that the creatures will become aggressive on the harder difficulty, so, I've tried to switch the difficulty from easy to hard, but... it just reduces the amount of collectable items (removes green and yellow treestars) and removes Petrie with his hints. I didn't notice any other changes in the gameplay. I've passed the Littlefoot's part even faster on the hard than on the easy difficult.
So, summarizing the above, the game is too short and too easy. I hope that somebody tells me that I missed a big bunch of content in it...
Thanks to Sneak who told me about this article on the LBT wiki, and I've learnt that there exist some LBT games. This topic is related only to the PlayStation Games.
This topic can contain spoilers!
So, I've tried to play The Land Before Time: Return to the Great Valley using ePSXe 1.9.0 and USB-gamepad.
Good game, even though the graphics are quite low-poly, but it is OK due to the age and the platform. The model of Spike is the most successful (and the less successful is the model of Cera) imo. Ducky has the most responsive controlling.
But I'm a bit disappointed. Maybe I've missed or didn't understand something, but let me explain.
Looks like I have been passed the whole game for less than 2 hours. I've played as every character from the "select a character" screen, and after the finishing cutscene of the last character, the game showed me "select a character" screen again. Now the selection of any character shows me only the finishing cutscene of the selected character and nothing else can be done. Is it a finish? Or maybe I missed something?
The game is very easy. No enemies, the levels are short and quite simple (except of a couple of places which were quite difficult to pass). Every character has the attacking action, but it is useless due to the absense of enemies. It is used only for activating the shooting flower which shoots the little stone and destroys the big stone, but the flower can be also activated by the headbutt.
I've saw some little creatures which can be attacked (snails, butterflies, dragonflies, etc.), but they were not harmful and couldn't be destroyed, they just moved to another place after attack. Also I've found a lot of plants, which could be attacked, but they just made a sound and nothing else. What is the point of these creatures and plants?
I thought that the creatures will become aggressive on the harder difficulty, so, I've tried to switch the difficulty from easy to hard, but... it just reduces the amount of collectable items (removes green and yellow treestars) and removes Petrie with his hints. I didn't notice any other changes in the gameplay. I've passed the Littlefoot's part even faster on the hard than on the easy difficult.
So, summarizing the above, the game is too short and too easy. I hope that somebody tells me that I missed a big bunch of content in it...