ADG Episode 29 - Mystic Towers

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Pixelmusement

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Published on August 13, 2013 6:29:57 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM0IK14_W_8

Game:

Mystic Towers (1994)

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Show

Duration: 16:22

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Episode Originally Released: December 18th, 2010

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Who knew Apogee released a game with nudity? :D

Mind you, this is one of the extremely few games made outside of Apogee, as opposed to internally as many of their titles were.

TBH, I like the music in this game more than the gameplay, but the gameplay's not that bad considering the 3D fixed-perspective style that was used. There was this sort of fad in the mid-90s where making your game in 3D, even with a fixed perspective, somehow made it better. Really, all this did was make such games look good in screenshots as the gameplay of most of them suffered from failing to convey spatial awareness to players.

The best ones to use this type of 3D were pretty much all puzzle games, like this one! (Or sims.)

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Additional Information and Corrections:

* If you want to download or purchase Mystic Towers, head on over to this page on the 3D Realms website: https://3drealms.com/catalog/mystic-towers_11/

* Not quite sure if I pronounced the name of "Baron Lazarus Pedabouche" correctly. There's about a zillion different ways you could say that name. :P

* "That said"... geeze, even *I* am sick of the phrase after hearing myself say it way too many times in this episode. :P

* One thing I neglected to mention were the three special powerups. There's an invisibility powerup which makes the enemies and turrets ignore you, a shield powerup which makes you invulnerable to all forms of damage, and a meta powerup which makes your attack spells several times stronger. They don't last very long and you can generally find at least one of each in every tower.

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