Jim Power: The Lost Dimension. Hard Mode. NES [No Damage Walkthrough] - Famicom | Nintendo Game
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Jim Power (NES)- So with how hellish and brutal the Genesis version was, and how not even quality of life and polish could save the game from being bad, the NES version has gotta be worse, right? A weaker system with way tougher and cheaper games means this is probably among the worst up there, like Micronics level. Believe it or not… No! Jim Power on NES remixes the original game’s idea, and leads to a game that’s shockingly fun and fair to play, at least compared to the 16 bit one.
Story:
In this third volume of QUByte Classics, you take control of Jim Power, as he sets out to defeat the evil of the Mutant Planet in this frantic action game! Originally released on the Amiga and SNES, the versions here are… Neither?!? New versions from 2021, wait what?
Yes, indeed, this is an oddity: rather than the original versions, both ports in this compilation are newer versions, one of which is a finished version of a Genesis prototype that leaked out ages ago, and the other is a ground-up NES demake, both finally getting a public release in 2021. Let’s see how these hold up!
Presentation:
Right off the bat, this compilation has a bonus the other QUbyte games did not: an animated intro! Yeah, a pretty impressive animated intro, made solely for this compilation. It’s nothing mindblowing, but an extra effort that I appreciate. Afterward, you get treated to the same general menu that the prior entries included, including the same general option menus you can mess with, including the various filters that don’t do much for me, and yes, the slow and clunky save/load state menus.
For the actual games, you have both the new NES version of Jim Power, and the finished up Genesis version, both coming out last year in 2021. The Genesis version maintains a lot of the same aspects as the infamous Super Nintendo version, but is overall in a much more presentable state than that wreck. The scrolling no longer hurts your eyes, the music renditions sound really good on the Genesis sound chip, (even if the stage one track sounding like a bootleg of the Ys III Fire Dungeon theme will never stop being funny to me) and the sprites look nice and polished, even if the enemy variety is weird and doesn’t make much sense, and the backgrounds are honestly pretty ugly, having an Amiga style to them that just doesn’t age all that well.
However, the true shocker is that NES port. See, rather than just being the SNES game thrown in a NES filter, this is a complete reimagining of sorts, with a brand new set of sprites and cutscenes, all of which look really damn impressive for the NES. Hell, the walk cycle is disturbingly smooth for the console, and it even has some twists and turns that show off what the 8-bit machine can do! Yet again, the music is outstanding, and honestly might just be my favorite rendition of the Jim Power soundtrack out of all the versions of this game.
Gameplay:
Being that this compilation includes two versions of the same game, there is a core concept that applies to both: You are Jim Power, off to enter the Lost Dimension in order to rescue a maiden in need and get the heck out of there. Both games alternate between run and gun shooting and side-scrolling shooting sections, and both games are pretty janky and incredibly tough. In fact, the SNES version is often considered to be one of the hardest games on the console, solely due to just how unbalanced, brutal, and unfun the whole experience is, and even the original Amiga version isn’t considered much better.
So, how does this compilation handle that? Well, we get the Genesis version, as I noted before, and a brand new NES demake, so the SNES trainwreck is not here, thankfully. In terms of features though, there still isn’t much of substance here besides the two games and that intro movie. No archival material, no cool behind the scenes on the restoration of the Genesis version, or how the NES port came to be, just the same old, clunky UI that the prior QuByte classics came with, only with two very tough games. Oh boy… Let’s see how they stack up.
Jim Power (Genesis)- Originally planned as the title “Jim Power: The Arcade Game”, this is not an arcade port, nor was the game ever for Arcades.
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