Video Game Review: The Goonies II (NES)
November 6, 2019 by Talking Pulp	in Reviews, Video Game Review and tagged action, adventure, crime, NES, platformer, review, side scroller, swashbuckling, The Goonies, video game
After recently playing through the first Goonies game for the original Nintendo, I wanted to revisit Goonies II, which I thought was the only Goonies game when I was a kid. I just assumed the title implied that the game was a direct sequel to the movie, since it had a different plot altogether.
This should have been a better game than its predecessor and it had a lot of new additions that certainly gave it more potential. However, it's bogged down by some things that made me enjoy it less.
To start, the game is literally a f'n maze! While it's easy to work through as you progress to new areas, it becomes a bit of a clusterfuck when you are forced to backtrack to previous locations to revisit certain rooms you couldn't access until getting specific items later in the game. While this is something that is common in video games, they could've made it easier to return to previous areas instead of trying to remember your way back through the overly complex level design.
Also, the graphics seem like a step down. They aren't too dissimilar from the previous Goonies game so maybe it is the weird color choices that bother me like Mikey having hot pink pants and hair.
Other than all that, this is still a fun game to play and there is a lot to explore.
I kind of wish that this would've spawned a video game series that still released stuff on later consoles because these games had the makings of a cool franchise that sadly, didn't grow beyond this entry.
Pairs well with: the first Goonies game for the NES.
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