Danterrifik (2020) Walkthrough + Review, ZX Spectrum

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INTRODUCTION:
Our protagonist Dan Terkai, incomprehensibly wakes up being buried in an old cemetery. He manages to surface, and looks at himself surprised seeing how his body is turned into a bag of bones, it is a filthy skeleton.

He realizes that his name is inscribed on the stone with a message written in blood: You are destined to know what has happened to you, you only have one option if you want to recover your SOUL, your BODY and your IDENTITY. You will have to face your great fear: Hell. You will descend to purgatory until you reach it. There you will have the answer to your death.

Guide Dan through 25 levels of madness, collecting the vials of blood and parts of his heart to finally put his body back together.

REVIEW:
So, what is going on...?? It looks like we have to go to Hell to find out! The game has 25 screens and in most of them you have to first collect a vial with some of your blood, and when this is collected a piece of your heart will appear, and when collecting this you will proceed to the next level.

This is some kind of obscure, macabre, semi horror game. It actually manages to catch that atmosphere pretty good with the look of the enemies, and skeletons, parts from humans, and other weird stuff in the backgrounds. And if played on a 128k machine a bad ass soundtrack will accompany you through your journey.

The gameplay seem to be pretty linear, but then suddenly you are in a maze where you have to find the right places to go through the walls, any wrong choices is the certain death!

A few levels later there is another twist, because you are controlling two persons. The other one is in a cage with spikes, and he moves in the same directions as you, and if he dies, you die...

The next special level has three vials. Only one can be used, pick up the wrong ones and you lose a life.

And then there is another level where you are controlling two persons, and you have to help each other collecting the things.

At places the lava seems pretty blocky set up, and at the last levels I would have preferred white sprites, instead of black ones, like in the rest of the levels, but besides that the graphics is cool and fine looking with only some minor color clash here and there.

The controls are working fast and responsive, so a fine looking semi horror game with good controls, some twists so that it is not just an ordinary platform game, and a cool soundtrack that fits the game very well. But… the game is tough as hell..!! Abu Simbel Profanation is a piece of cake compared to this game. You need to do pixel perfect timing, and if you die on a level you start all over again – If you have collected the vial and dies when going after the heart piece, you start from the beginning and have to collect the vial again.

It is a shame this game is so extremely tough, because it has lots of nice touches, and it could have been really great. The very high difficulty just kills a lot of the gameplay, but professional hardcore platform gamers might find a great pleasure in this, and for them the rating of the game will off course be higher. Some of the special levels are great, but the maze with deadly walls and the one with false vials is just there to drain you for lives, in which you will soon enough be short anyway. A sequel is announced and I hope this will be easier, because the concept and storyline in this game seems good.

The game was made by TOKU Soft in 2020.

Rating = 83%

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