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Navy Blue |
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LAST UPDATED: 09/15/07 |
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REVIEWED BY:
FamicomJL |
"You
know what's more fun than this? Actually playing Battleship, and
not spending money on a video game
copy of it." |
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THE
DATA
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Navy Blue |
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PLATFORM |
Famicom |
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DEVELOPER |
I'max |
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PUBLISHER |
I'max |
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PLAYERS |
1 player |
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RELEASE DATE |
1992 |
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GENRE |
Action /
Strategy |
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SAVING OPTION |
Password Feature |
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NES NTSC |
No |
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NES PAL |
No |
THE RATINGS
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STORYLINE |
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3/5
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GRAPHICS |
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2/5 |
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AUDIO |
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3/5 |
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GAMEPLAY |
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3/5 |
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CONTROL |
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4.5/5 |
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FUN FACTOR |
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2/5 |
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FRUSTRATION |
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4/5 |
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OVERALL |
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2.5/5 |
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Ever
play Battleship, where you have to guess the
position of your opponent's battleships based on a
lettered and numbered grid? Well then, you pretty
much already know how to play Navy Blue. It's
the Famicom version of Battleship, and quite good.
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I'm taking a wild guess
here and saying that you're in some kind of naval warfare with some kind
of naval enemy; I'd bet the farm on the enemy being the German's in
World War II.
So, destroy your Nazi
foes! Take down those bastards and all of their sea craft, whether big
or small, using missiles which explode their ships into balls of violent
fire. Roar!
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The ocean battlefield is
a little confusing at first. It took me 10 minutes of shuffling around
to figure out what I was doing, because all you have in front of you is
a water-blue grid ready for you to select any square on the grid to
shoot your first missile.
I love the graphics for
when you nail a ship (or a part of it) and it lights on fire, showing
"HIT" in bold letters. You better get used to the symbol that means that
you missed: a black circle. Boring. And the graphic for your ships being
missed: It's sort of this awkward looking splash of water. A hit is
designated by a fireball.
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The sounds are okay. I
mean nothing is catchy, but they do their job of not annoying my ears.
The sound effect for when a ship is nailed is a loud explosion, but I
feel like I've heard it before...same old, boring explosion.
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You control where on
the map you want to fire a missile, to see if it hits any of the
enemy's ships. When you hit them, a gigantic "HIT" message comes up
on the screen, and the missile flies into a part of the ship, which
catches on fire. If only a part of it is on fire, the screen where
you make your move will show that. If it misses, a gigantic "MISS"
will appear, and some weird, um, thing, will show up on the screen.
These images are simple and effective, since many Japanese games
aren't playable because they're in Japanese.
So, you shoot missiles back and forth with your enemy for a while
until one of the two of you has sunk all of the battleships. Then,
you do it all over again, and again, and again, until you get bored.
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There are no problems
with the controls in Navy Blue, as would be expected from such a
simple game. I just feel like movement of your cursor, if you will,
takes forever, when it really shouldn't.
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You know what's more
fun than this? Actually playing Battleship, and not spending money
on a video game copy of it. Even the NES version of Battleship game
should take note of this. It's cool for a play, but because of the
limitations on gaming at the time -- no linking systems -- they had
to make this game for one player when it's really a two-player game.
That's the charm of the real Battleship.
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The CPU. is. allowed.
multiple. hits. I'm not kidding when I say this. You're basically
screwed if you miss your first shot, because then the computer's
somehow going to get two or three hits before it's even your damn
turn again. I have no idea on why it's done this way, but whatever.
It's highly annoying and discouraging.
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You know that friend who you
used to always play games with, but he'd always win and you'd get so pissed
about it that you'd vow to never play again, but you'd always invite him
back to your home a few days later to play games? That's pretty much how
this game is.
I'm a sucker for Battleship, so
I like to pop this in every now and then to see if I can get anywhere. Your
time is better spent elsewhere, like with the real Battleship game.
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