No Buddies Land
A vertical platformer with digitized audio and punishing difficulty.
No Buddies Land, a 1991 platformer from Expose Software and Loriciel, was built by former Atari demoscene members. Its vertical scrolling and digitized audio were cutting-edge for the era. Critics gave it mixed reviews, applauding the visuals but criticizing the shallow gameplay and punishing difficulty.
Quick Facts
- Developer
- Expose Software
- Publisher
- Loriciel
- Released
- 1991
- Genre
- Platform
- Modes
- Single-player
- Platforms
- Atari ST
Facts from the source article.
Did You Know?
- The player character is named Bud.
- The objective is to climb a tower into the clouds to reverse a curse that has flooded the land.
- The game features a slowly rising water level that forces the player to keep moving.
Reception
Oliver Baumgärtel of Play Time found the graphics and animations above average, but called the narrative unimaginative and noted excessive difficulty due to the lack of a password system. Richard Lowenstein of Amiga Joker stated the game was more frustrating than fun because of tricky platforms and limited lives. Diego de Mauve of Tilt considered the technical execution cutting-edge but felt the difficulty limited the game's appeal. Power Play dismissed it as no-name mediocrity, stating its simple platforming no longer appealed. Retro Gamer retrospectively described it as a solid example of a vertical platformer, though the graphics were unremarkable and the difficulty unforgiving.
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