Where's Waldo? (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
68A playthrough of THQ's 1991 NES game, Where's Waldo?
For the full review, complete with soundtrack and screenshot gallery, be sure to check out my write-up at http://www.nintendocomplete.com/wheres-waldo/
I played through on each of the three difficulty settings, beginning with easy, which is a super-forgiving cakewalk, and ending with the hard setting that makes the cursor super tiny, has a much stricter time limit, and increases the time penalty incurred by incorrect guessing. I had this game as a kid and loved it, but looking back, it's too bad that there wasn't more to it. I guess I was easier to satisfy when i was a 9-year-old.
This was done almost entirely by one guy, and when it got critically blasted, I didn't quite get the depth that the ratings tended to hit. Alright, the graphics sucked, but they were good enough to pick out Waldo (except for on hard mode where he can appear in any color.... grrr), and without making the graphics huge (making it impossible to reasonably hide anything, just like in The Great Waldo Search), I'm not sure people took into account the NES's limits. There's only so much that can be done with the tile/palette restrictions, especially when trying to mimic the look of a super high-detailed, hand drawn picture. That being said, the larger rom capacity and higher color depth of the SNES would have made this a much better game.
I wouldn't call this a good game by any means, but it's certainly not the 1 star, 1 out of 10 type of game that the media pegged it as. Seriously, it scored lower than Rocky and Bullwinkle, Home Alone, and Wayne's World on the NES.
Schyeah, right.
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