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Super Seymour Saves The Planet

SwainySwainy
edited October 2014 in Games
What did you all think of this game? I was pretty disappointed with it when I bought it originally and I've just reviewed it for Retro Asylum ( http://youtu.be/-zZTuDAOgNw ) and it just doesn't compare to Bomb Jack in terms of playability.
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  • PobbitPobbit
    edited October 2014
    I notice the mags all gave it universally high and similar reviews.

    Also of note is that the backgrounds in the screenshots in all three magazines are different from the screenshots in the map on WOS, and indeed differ from each other. Could it be that all the mags reviewed pre-release versions. Sinclair User actually has the whole boat missing from one of the backdrops!
  • gabriele amoregabriele amore
    edited October 2014
    can barely see the main sprite!
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  • IvanzxIvanzx
    edited October 2014
    This is a game that after playing it and practising for a little while gets quite entertaining. The graphics are also quite good, besides the problem that sometimes things get mixed with the background, but the quality of the sprites is really nice. It is a slow-paced Bombjack, with a little resemblence, but in fact, a different game and experience. It could be a hybrid between Mario Bros. and Bomb Jack, entertaining, challenging and well presented ;)
    I would give it a 7-7,5/10.
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  • SwainySwainy
    edited October 2014
    Yeah the sprites are nice. I've just had a quick go of Stuntman Seymour and the sprites in that are horrible.
  • Alessandro GrussuAlessandro Grussu
    edited October 2014
    I only played it through emulation - like all Seymour games - and quite liked it. A fun variation on the well-known Bomb Jack formula. 8/10 I'd say, also taking into account it's a budget game (for full price it would have been rather "thin").
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  • mermanmerman
    edited October 2014
    Love it on the C64, not tried the Speccy version...
  • SwainySwainy
    edited October 2014
    I can imagine that it works better on other formats.
  • richlrichl
    edited October 2014
    Pobbit wrote: »
    Also of note is that the backgrounds in the screenshots in all three magazines are different from the screenshots in the map on WOS, and indeed differ from each other. Could it be that all the mags reviewed pre-release versions. Sinclair User actually has the whole boat missing from one of the backdrops!

    Possibly, but it could just be down to the 48k version having different backgrounds compared to the 128k version. Actually, in my extensive testing (all of 2 minutes) I think the 48k one just has the same screen over and over but with different colours depending on which level you're on.
  • zx1zx1
    edited October 2014
    The only Seymour game i played was something about Seymour goes to Hollywood, it was free with a YS issue.
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited October 2014
    Aye Super Seymour ain't a bad little game.

    I didn't like the Seymour adventure games as much as the first 4 Dizzy games, but I liked the Seymour spin off titles more than the Dizzy spin off titles.
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  • GrazGraz
    edited October 2014
    I loved it. Better than BombJack me thinks. RobotCop was excellent too.
  • RalfRalf
    edited October 2014
    The graphics are also quite good, besides the problem that sometimes things get mixed with the background

    You actually made me feeling intrigued how this game would look without the background. I'm working on a hack right now :)

    And this game seems to have some more mysteries. Sometimes when you move Seymour there is a colour clash on the Platforms. Why??? Was Seymour originally supposed to have his own colour?

    And these early screenshots without any background,hmm interesting ;)
  • SwainySwainy
    edited October 2014
    Ralf wrote: »
    You actually made me feeling intrigued how this game would look without the background. I'm working on a hack right now :)

    And this game seems to have some more mysteries. Sometimes when you move Seymour there is a colour clash on the Platforms. Why??? Was Seymour originally supposed to have his own colour?

    And these early screenshots without any background,hmm interesting ;)

    I'm guessing that the sprite was originally white and they changed it last minute.
  • RalfRalf
    edited October 2014
    I was right! This game has mysteries.

    There is colour painting routine for Seymour in the code, deeply buried and disabled.

    Try to make Seymour white :)
    POKE 61093,62
    POKE 61094,15

    For today I'm over but I'll research this game more.
  • R-TapeR-Tape
    edited October 2014
    Haha Ralf does it again!

    seymour_zpsdde840b6.gif

    You seem to have a sixth sense for this kind of thing.

    It's not as good as Seymour Robotcop but the game is much better than I first gave it credit for, though a backgroundless hack would be nice. Careful you don't post the link on here though ;-)
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  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited October 2014
    Never played it to be honest. Looks rather messy and slow to play. Perhaps in 1991, when the Spectrum was starting to fade in terms of quality software releases, the magazines may not have wanted to pan a new title by one of the big software houses still supporting the platform.
  • mermanmerman
    edited October 2014
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Aye Super Seymour ain't a bad little game.

    I didn't like the Seymour adventure games as much as the first 4 Dizzy games, but I liked the Seymour spin off titles more than the Dizzy spin off titles.

    Same here.
  • RalfRalf
    edited October 2014
    Okay, I'm ready with some hack.

    For people who like to have it clear and simple :)

    POKE 26218,58 - remove background
    POKE 26227,4 - background to black
    POKE 60998,3 - background behind items to black
    POKE 61923,1 - enable Seymour color

    Works with game loaded in 48kB mode, I'll deal with 128kB mode later.

    Some comparison (left original, right hack) and animation:

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    By the way, it seems that Seymour in early version was supposed to be yellow. There is yellow attribute in proper memory cell which gets overwritten when game starts in final version. So I left him yellow.
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited October 2014
    good work ralf. the original screen looks even more ridiculous now. Maybe the programmer was colourblind?
  • RalfRalf
    edited October 2014
    For game loaded in 128kB mode one poke is different:

    128 kB

    POKE 26201,58 - remove background
    POKE 26227,4 - background to black
    POKE 60998,3 - background behind items to black
    POKE 61923,1 - enable Seymour color
  • SwainySwainy
    edited October 2014
    Looks much easier on the eyes. Well done mate!
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