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Rikki & Vikki Review
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A bit unbalanced but a lot of fun.

I love single-screen platformers, but you don't really get those outside of retro throwbacks these days. This is definitely a retro throwback, but it's a good one.

I played the coop campaign, which I found out later is apparently significantly harder than the single-player campaign. It has different level designs and puzzles that require both players to complete.

The difficulty curve is a bit all over the place; sometimes hard levels are followed immediately by incongruously easy ones, and I found the first boss to be many times harder than the much more fun to fight second boss. Once I unlocked the unlimited retry option the difficulty felt a lot more manageable though, and coordinating with a local player to solve some of the toughest puzzles was really satisfying.


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The other thing I didn't get into here is, I absolutely can't believe this is an Atari 7800 game. What the hell.

Atari fans have always been saying "well, the 7800 could have had games more advanced than the NES if only it had had more time / the right designers / etc", and look. I'm a Saturn fan. I'll say those words pointing to the Saturn Shenmue video. But I've never quite been sure the 7800 had it in it to genuinely be a technical powerhouse. But this game! The NES couldn't have done a version of Rikki & Vikki that looks this good. It's unbelievable. It's not a good game because it's technically impressive, but damn if that doesn't help make its case.


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