Marina then springs into action to take down the Imperial forces to get her creator back.ĭashing allows Marina to quickly cross small gaps.ĭespite being a super cool robot, Marina’s arsenal is pretty minimal. Theo seems to have a penchant for being kidnapped, with the evil Empire’s forces imprisoning him multiple times throughout the course of the game. Players control Ultra-InterGalactic-Cybot G Marina Liteyears who, along with her creator, the mildly-perverted self-proclaimed robotics expert, Professor Theo, has come to the Planet Clancer because of reasons.

This caused no small amount of confusion the first time I fired the game up back in the day, thinking that my controller or the game was broken in some way. The game actually uses the D-pad for movement exclusively, completely foregoing the use of the control stick in any way. Developed by Treasure, and published by Enix before the Final Fantasy-spewing machine known as Square Enix (#NotBitter) came to be, Mischief Makers is a 2D platformer with pre-rendered environments more along the lines of the classic SNES titles that came before it. In an age when gamers were up to their eyeballs in exciting new 3D games, Mischief Makers sought to keep things simple. However, what kind of critic would I be if I couldn’t take off the nostalgia glasses, and give this game the same treatment that I give all games I review? So, with that in mind, let’s jump in with my very professional, very not gushy review of this N64 gem. Marina is one of my all-time favorite video game heroines, as evidenced by the fact that, even today, I tend to name every female character I play after her. I think the gameplay, characters, story and music are just fantastic. It’s one of my favorite titles from the Nintendo 64 era. Mischief Makers is a game near and dear to my heart. I’m going to go ahead and start with a disclaimer right off the bat.

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