While the animation is stunning I found the rest of the game to be boring, frustrating and overall quite dull. Road Avenger, Cobra Command) I was very disappointed with Time Gal.
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These usually result in you losing a life as it's impossible to tell what the consequence will be.Ĭonsidering the other excellent titles Wolf Team developed for the Mega CD (i.e. Like The Masked Ninja: Kamen Rider ZO (1994, Mega CD) there are times when you'll have a decision to make. Some of the checkpoints are ridiculous meaning if you lose a life you'll usually start at the middle of the stage and have to know to react immediately.
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As a result you have no choice but to keep playing the levels until you memorise every single button press - this is boring and you might as well just read the sequences from a piece of paper. Reika appears on a ship at sea and faces a sole pirate captain, quickly grabbing another conveniently placed sword for some swashbuckling, before another ship in the distance starts lobbing cannonballs. There are some audio clues of when you'll be required to do so but they don't always play and you're left to try and react while the action packed video shifts all over the place. The international Sega CD versions change this time period to 600 A.D. Also, because the game is so colourful and there's lots going on it's common not to see the visual indicator shine so you have no idea that you're supposed to press a button. I'm not sure if Time Gal is supposed to be a bad ass though as one minute she's scared and whiny and the next she's confident and taunts the enemy! Even on Easy mode the game is stupidly difficult and without the level select cheat I probably wouldn't have seen anything past the second level! You only have a miniscule amount of time to react to the on-screen icons and if you miss one you lose a life. The video content looks stunning and it's easily one of the most colourful games on the system. It consists of four levels with several short acts each and you simply watch the action and press the button displayed on screen.