Many of the NES games I review fall in the average department in terms of the overall appeal of the game. I usually give them a thumbs up to buy since the price is cheap and you don't have anything to lose. However, there are the occasional games that are so boring and mundane to play that even with the cheap price tag I cannot recommend a buy. Wrath of the Black Manta falls into this category. It is boring and I had more fun blowing into the cartridge trying to get the damn thing started.
First the good points. Well...errr..... the music is tolerable and the developers picked a good game to rip off in Shinobi.
Now for the bad stuff. First the game is a total rip off of Shinobi, and a bad one at that. The graphics are dull and the control is pretty bad. I can deal with that stuff but everything else about the game sucks too much. Example 1: I have never seen so many of the same enemies in one stage in my entire life. There is the ultra tough green suit man and the super secretive red man with a gun. Silly me. I have forgotten green ninja armed with shirukens. WoW! The variety should make you jump out of your seat and buy the game now. Wait there is more. Example 2: The main character is incredibly lame. Imagine a ninja with a box head. All you can see is his eyes since his purple attire conceals the rest of him. Thats right. This manly ninja wears a F@#K1#G purple ninja suit. Also included is example 3: The horrible story. Our hero wakes up in the middle of the night dressed in his ninja suit. That is a bad sign already seeing how nobody in their right mind would sleep in a ninja suit. Let alone a purple one. His informant tells him of recent kidnappings of little children. Right away he gets on the case and thus begins level one. Right away you find a piece of paper on the floor with a clue written on it. Wow a detective ninja. How awesome. Anyway it says the man in red knows something. This would be a nice bit of information if there was not 50 F'N red men on the first stage. Well it seems that all of the red men have information. When you touch them you get a cool interface where a guy, who looks like a pedophile by the way, with an afro talks to you after you tell him you don't want to hurt him. He says that they are responsible for the kidnappings but he is following orders. Well if you shoot him before talking you don't get an interface. But don't worry.
Sorry had to space the paragraphs. Anyway even if you kill the first red man there is no problem seeing how you still have 49 more to go. And no they are not variations. It is the smae F'N guy! Yes he is back from the dead. Anyway all of the information is useless since they each know nothing and are just following orders. Keep in mind that this is STILL the first stage. There is plenty more "fun" but I won't ramble on anymore.
If you still want to buy this game I sincerely hope it is to make fun of. If so then you will have a blast. If you want to buy it for any other reason then you must be old and senile because this game was no fun, besides making fun of it. Even if you enjoyed it 10 years ago and want to experience it again please don't. Your NES does not deserve that kind of treatment. Once was enough.
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