Whereas most platformers and action games of the era were fiddling around with typical 80’s influenced rock riffs and electronica to lesser or greater success, The Lost Vikings diverges from the tinniness of 16-bit music for some bizarre hip hop/house flows. One of the elements that shines in The Lost Vikings is its soundtrack. It’s not that the game never suffers from some ugly visuals, like the waterfalls, but what is here is funny and charming. Each of the various worlds are distinct and the change of scenery is a welcome one. The graphics are as sunny as a Saturday morning cartoon and may not have been the best for the SNES (certainly not for the Genesis) but they serve the content well. They may be lost but they certainly won’t stop to ask for directions. It’s up to you to get the three Norse amigos back to their wives and children in one piece. There are an infinite number of worlds in the multiverse and the vikings will find themselves lost in prehistory, in pyramids, even in a world of candy and balloons. The game features an absolutely necessary trial and error element since there are no continues and losing a stage simply causes you to restart it. Later items and combinations of items can dumbfound as keys to unlocking the next area in a stage. Enemies become much more ferocious and the puzzles more cerebral as you progress. Each viking can take three hits before expiring and if they die from being attacked, shot, electrocuted, blown up, crushed or from falling, you will not be able to complete the stage.ĭespite the simplicity of the mechanics and the deceptive childishness of the concept and humor, The Lost Vikings winds up into a tight ball of complexity and difficulty in its mid to later levels. The goal is to navigate all three of them to the exit door at the end of each stage, utilizing their abilities to avoid damage, open doors, manipulate items, and kill enemies. Further, his shield can be used as a platform for the other vikings Erik can jump on top of it to reach higher areas. Thirdly, Olaf can use his shield to block the advance of monsters and their attacks, and even use it like a parachute to descend slowly and safely from any height. If he picks up enough speed he can bust down walls with his helmet and even plow through enemies in some circumstances, provided he’s given enough running room. Erik is the most mobile and the only viking who can jump. His arrows can also be used to trigger switches and machinery from a distance. Baleog is equipped with a sword and bow with a “life-time supply of arrows”, and thus he’s the only viking who can easily kill enemies, directly. “Prepare ze anal probe.”The basic mechanic involves switching between three controllable characters, the Lost Vikings, with their different offensive, defensive and movement specialties. However, the vikings escape the clutches of their alien captors and become stranded in time and space, traversing surreal and eclectic worlds on their quest to return to their own. An alien race known as the Croutonians has kidnapped the vikings to hold as specimens in their intergalactic zoo. The three misplaced vikings are Baleog the Fierce, Erik the Swift, and Olaf the Stout who are abducted from their tranquil lives of enjoying viking-like things like picking berries, pillaging and Prima Nocta. I originally enjoyed The Lost Vikings on the SNES, so that will be the slant of my review. It was later re-released for the Amiga, MS-DOS, Mega Drive/Genesis, Game Boy Advance, and. The Lost Vikings is a revolutionary, side-scrolling puzzle-platformer developed by Silicon & Synapse (later Blizzard Entertainment) and published Interplay for the Super Nintendo. Imagine the premise of Sliders with three characters from Beowulf suffering the finale of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and b-boying to hip hop. Occasionally when these labels are removed they will leave a sticky residue behind.“This is the old way. If you would like any of the non-permanent labels removed please let us know in the notes field in the checkout screen. Some of these are permanent and some of these are non-permanent. So please check back once in a while!Īll used games may or may not have adhesive stickers on the box and/or the game cartridges. Please note that this website was launched in the summer of 2021 and is a work in progress for about another year as we add some 5000 used board games and about 3000 used video games and accessories. It was a rental for Grandin Video & Games in St. Game Ownership history: This game has has belonged to the same owner of this website since the day it was purchased. Game has not been tested however, we can do so at time of purchase, upon request. Game cartridge is surrounded by a white cardboard.Original Instructions have creasing, folding at corners, and corner and edge wear.Game box has scratches, and minor wear.
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