Developer: Capcom
Bionic Commando is a strange game. Widely heralded as one of the NES greatest due to the titular protagonist's ability to swing around with an extendable arm, it is a game that confuses me. I see the allure, but playing a platformer (especially from the NES days) in which you cannot jump seems inherently strange to me...
This is not to say that swinging around and shooting the opposing military forces is not enjoyable - it is - but I just can't bring myself to play this game for much longer than a few minutes without getting frustrated. I value Capcom's foresight in introducing a new gameplay mechanic with the swinging, but it's been evolved so far in the past 24 years that I have little interest in experiencing its genesis beyond the purpose of this blog.
I do wish they had kept the original Japanese title though - "The Resurrection of Hitler: Top Secret" would have surely enticed me more than Bionic Commando (the game was also heavily edited to remove any references to Hitler or the Nazi party).
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