Wunda Walter review
So it was time for a Wunda Walter review, I’ve been glimpsing at this cover for a while, and as I always do, I try to imagine what the game can be about. I will come clear with on you this., I thought it was yet another Pacman clone – I was wrong.
The game itself is more a scramble-version with ingredients from Pacman. We jump through the sidescrolling landscapes while trying to avoid the collision with the incoming rockets, blasting fires or to avoid the crashlandings. You need to collect your energy pills in your fly/jumping journey through the scenery.
I love the Wunda Walter! character, but seeing to that you mostly control the game and survival being high up in the skys but the energy pills are on the ground !? One thing that downgrade this game in playability is that you always need start from the begining after each lost life. As you need to record the details of each level to manage them. This becomes terribly annoying and many lost lifes – this would have costed me one or more joysticks back in the days.
The sound effects are close to give you a nervous breakdown and really don’t help you in the frustration that the game gives you.
Play or not Play it? Not my cup of tea, and not close to my favourite title from Interceptor, Panic.
From the Magazines
Wobbly, wacky and welcome is Wunda Walter. This is a funky, nonsense game requiring aeronautical skills and an aptitude for executing telling belly-flops. Guide Walter in a flight across four distinctive, scrolling landscapes, swooping down to the ground to steam-roller small, evidently offensive globes then lurching into the stratosphere again to avoid prickly vegetation and abrasive rocks. As you soar over hills and valleys, keep an eye out for maurauding balloon-bustas bearing in mind that errupting volcanoes ain’t too healthy for wind bags either.
The title screen depicts the four regions which are to be your stamping ground: a red volcanic region; white icy wastes; a tropical sector; an arid yellow desert. Overall, a first rate fun game full of colour and even a scrolling commentary. With the success of Arabian Knights under their belts it looks like being a very good year for Interceptor.
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From the Covers
THE STORY Due to a freak mishap in time, a number of venomous energies known as “FUZZ-BALLS” have created havoc on the somewhat peaceful planet of Plato. Assigned to the job of stomping out these nasties is the Loveable Balloon, Walter. His task is not so easy, as there are several MANIC-DEPRESSIVE mutants practising BODY-POPPING!
Also, floating or stomping on any rough surfaces causes considerable harm to his outer skin. Apart from that and the odd exploding volcano, you might just be able to help Walter on the trek to save his world
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Our Wunda Walter Review Rating
So, the time has come to give this a rating. And I’m really splitted in my opinion here – it has the components of Scramble that I love, and it has the characters in the shape of a Pacman – But, I need to go for my inner sensation that from a playability perspective it becomes to annoying to restart so many times and so many failures becomes to much for me.
So, we give it two Wunda Walters out of five.
