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Altered beast VS Magician lord which one do you prefer? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 weeks ago by thiscat@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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i recently watched a video of a youtuber named the sunshine feeler where he talks about the mega drive in japan and he said he feels altered beast's concept is underutilized and it made me think about how magician lord takes the same concept and make it for me a more enjoyable experience what do you think about this comperasion?

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[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

To be honest, I’ve never heard of magician lord. I will check it out. Thanks.

[–] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I loved Altered Beast in the arcade, I also never played Magician Lord and will have to look into it. A similar game I think is Sword of Sodan, that my brother barely let me play on his Amiga, which was pretty cool too.. lol

[–] databender@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Playing Altered Beast in the arcade and seeing the first boss tear his head off is the entire reason I got a Genesis

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

As a fan of both Sega as well as SNK and having owned both the Mega Drive and the NeoGeo CD and still playing both to this day (various methods, mostly MiSTer now):

Aside from Altered Beast having a two player mode it's not really a contest. Magician lord is a far more fleshed out experience and has a lot of variance in its gameplay while Altered Beast always features one screen high levels and gets old really fast.