The seals are not only a pest in that aspect, but they sometimes re-freeze the ice above you, causing you to chisel some more. The strangeness ensues as you fight pterodactyls and seals during your long climb to the top of each stage. This time limit will hurt you or help you depending on how fast you work and the timing of your jumps and attacks. There are a total of thirty-two different mountain stages for you to get through, all working against a time limit.
The real points of the game here are hammer and jump, hammer and jump, oh…and hammer and jump. That should throw away any doubts of the game being worse than the Ice Climbers are in Smash Brothers, right? Now while there are several fun parts to this game, Ice Climbers is generally kind of limited in its game-play, but the wonderful uniqueness of the game all but make up for it. Your point here is to chisel your way up the level with your trusty hammer, all the while avoiding crazy obstacles. Now Ice Climbers is a very innovative approach at the platform genre, with its one unique trait of moving vertically, rather than horizontally. On further inspection I found out they had their own game on the NES, so I got me a copy and had a go. It seemed like they were the only characters from the list I had never heard of. Your point."Īs I was playing through Super Smash Brothers: Melee the other day, the thought occurred to me on just what game the Ice Climbers were from anyway.
"As I was playing through Super Smash Brothers: Melee the other day, the thought occurred to me on just what game the Ice Climbers were from anyway.