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Dynowarz: Destruction of Spondylus

Moby ID: 18669

NES version

Giant robot dinosaurs! And they screwed it up?

The Good
This game features, first and foremost, giant mechanized dinosaurs roaming on distant planets. Sounds like a great concept.

What's good about this game? If you are the type of player that just likes to rack up wins to the total record, make sure you add Dynowarz to your schedule. I pushed my way through it less than 3 hours.

Dynowarz is also reminiscent of the classic NES game Blaster Master for its split gameplay between piloting a big, tough machine and then playing as a frail little humanoid. The point here is that anything that reminds a player of Blaster Master can not be all negative.

The Bad
To reiterate, this game features giant robot dinosaurs. How can you screw up a game with that kind of subject matter? And yet, this company managed to do just that. The only thing I remember about this game is sleepwalking through it. There was very little challenge, just walk from point A to point B and whack the other mechanized dinosaurs.

The Bottom Line
One of the most utterly wasted concepts in the history of video games. So sad. I really wanted this game to be super-cool and it let me down in the worst way.

by Multimedia Mike (20664) on August 11, 2005

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