Incantation
SCORE: 65
I am so very thankful I had the money to purchase the Interplay
Collection 1. Incantation is one of the video games that came on that
cartridge. I do not recall Incantation from the 16-bit era. In some ways
I can see why Incantation did not leave much of a mark in the minds of
many gamers. Incantation was released near the end of the life time of
the Super NES. Incantation is consider a rare game by some. It is neat
that it is on the Evercade and more gamers can experience it.
We play a little wizard in Incantation. We attack with magic from his
wand. The wizard is one of the short squat characters. The graphics do
look decent for the era. I learned to be very careful shooting the magic
from the wand in Incantation. Why is that? There are teleporting spheres
within Incantation. They can send you to different areas of the level
and even different levels. The problem came up when I was trying to take
out an enemy and teleported back to the beginning of the level. This led
to all kinds of frustration.
The music in Incantation is pleasant. I saw some trees in Incantation
that reminded me of the Kirby video games. There are coins to collect in
this 2D side scrolling video game. We pick up different wands along the
way that shoot out different magical attacks. Some of the wands are
better than others in my opinion. The ugly monsters will vanish when the
player shoots them enough times. I really like the rolling hills in
Incantation. They may show the limitations of the hardware at the times,
but Incantation tries to go beyond.
The difficulty of Incantation is up there until you learn the patterns.
The first boss at the end of the first level is a great example of this.
It took some time to take that big guy down. His little bubbles he sent
at me were annoying. I learned while I battled against him. If you
missed the live stream where I played Incantation then you can find a
video of my game play in the video section of the Family Friendly Gaming
website.
Incantation is an interesting game for me to see. I can see why so many
were not into this game. I am a little queasy about having to play a
wizard like this in Incantation myself. There are too many cheap hits
within Incantation. Sadly that is part of what we were given back in
that era. As well as enemies that will re-spawn. I always thought that
had more to do with memory but I could be wrong.
- Paul
Graphics: 60%
Sound: 76%
Replay/Extras: 70%
Gameplay: 60%
Family Friendly Factor: 60%
System: Evercade/Super NES
Publisher: Titus
Developer: Titus
Rating: ‘K-A’ for Kids to Adults
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