Joshua & the Battle of Jericho Reviews (NES)
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Category | Description | User Score |
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Effectiveness | How effective a game is to teaching. This genre is only used for games with the genre Educational. | 3.0 |
Gameplay | How well the game mechanics work and the game plays. | 3.7 |
Graphics | The visual quality of the game | 3.4 |
Personal Slant | A personal rating of the game, regardless of other attributes | 3.0 |
Sound / Music | The quality of the sound effects and/or music composition | 3.4 |
Story / Presentation | The main creative ideas in the game and how well they are executed. This rating is used for every game except compilations and special editions which don't have unique game content not available in a standalone game or DLC. | 3.4 |
Overall User Score (7 votes) | 3.3 |
Critic Reviews
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This game is largely the same type of experience as its
predecessor, with some improvements, such as new power-ups, and
some omissions, such as music during levels. It’s worth playing if you
enjoyed Exodus, or simply if you enjoy puzzles.
50
Questicle.net (Jun, 2012)
Wisdom Tree’s re-interpretation of biblical stories is either pseudo-artistic gold or downright sacrilegious, depending on one’s point-of-view.
40
Hardcore Gaming 101 (1992)
Controlling Joshua is simple and straightforward, though he doesn't really have much to do besides run around and toot his horn at things. There are minimal sound effects and no music unless a special item is active. But I have to give them extra credit for including actual (though very fuzzy) voice samples of "Good job Joshua!" and "Be courageous Joshua!" The bare-bones graphics seem purely utilitarian. You're shown only what you need to know about, and destroying all the objects in a room leaves you with a simple black background. After reaching some of the more advanced levels it becomes clear that the only way to figure out the puzzles is to play them over and over and over. And that's exactly what you'll do as traps and cheap deaths claim Joshua again and again. Inescapable predicaments will happen like indestructible boulders pinning you in a corner because you weren't fast enough or didn't go the right way. But you can always hit start + select to martyr yourself in suicide.