Die Hard (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
245A playthrough of Activision's 1992 license-based action/adventure game for the NES, Die Hard.
For a full write-up on the game, be sure to check out my review here: http://www.nintendocomplete.com/die-hard
I played the game on the Advanced difficulty level. This video shows the best ending.
The Die Hard game was one of the better NES games to be based on a license - and probably the best one that wasn't made by Capcom or Konami. It closely follows the plot of the original movie (which was four years old already when the game was released) - you play as Bruce Willis's leading man John McClane, an off-duty out-of-town cop, who finds himself at LA's Nakatomi Plaza tower in the midst of a terrorist lockdown. His wife and several other employees are being held hostage, and John has to foil the criminal plot and save the day.
You get the free run of several floors of the tower, and you have to wipe out all of the bad guys as you perform tasks that trigger major events from the movie. You have to find a radio, get to the roof and call for help, steal the detonators, smash the building's mainframe computer, all while arming yourself to the teeth and looking after your "foot health" as you work your way closer and closer to the final showdown with Professor Snape.... err... I mean Hans Gruber.
The number of moments that directly reflect the film's plot is surprising - fairly often cutscenes using digitized photos pop-up letting you know what is going on, and the majority of them represent key moments from the movie. Alan Rickman screams at his henchman for being idiots, Carl Winslow from Family Matters (Reginald VelJohnson) gets to reprise his role as do-gooder with a chance at salvation, Theo regularly announces how many of the vault's locks he has managed to bore through. It's all quite nicely done.
There is a ton of detail in the graphics. Sure, they're pretty horrendously ugly (the perspective and the color choices really leave a lot to be desired), but they're clear and well defined at least. The music is quite good, and the controls are generally responsive, though lining up angles can be a bit of a challenge at times. It's quite a difficult game, but a lot of the fun in playing it comes from figuring out what to do and when. There are several different endings you may see depending on your choices throughout, and there is a lot of flexibility in how you approach most situations.
So Die Hard might not be a Christmas movie as much as it is an action movie, but I don't care. I always watch it at Christmas, and the first two movies take place during Christmas, so I figured that this was an appropriate time to upload this one.
Happy trails, happy holidays, and Yippie-Ki-Yay, *insert expletive for someone who would like to copulate in accordance with their Oedipal desires*
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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