Mostly games based off of movies IE Ghostbusters on NES or Rambo part 2 on NES, even though Rambo III was good on Genesis. Anyway Gremlins didn't turn out to be such a bad movie based game after all, it's like it's not even a movie based game, and more of a NES game. Gremlins 2 on NES, but wait where's Gremlins 1? Was the first one on the Atari 2600?
So if that were to be they would have switched consoles. It's kind of like the Goonies 2 where America didn't get the first Goonies game, except Goonies 1 was in Japan, unlike Gremlins 2 on NES where as the first one is on the Atari 2600. Anyway onto the actual Gremlins 2 game.
The menu screen is pretty much just the company that made it (SunSoft) shows the date of when the game was made, a Start option and a Password option to music, pretty much like many other old game menus.
The intro starts off with Gizmo in a cage, then Gizmo's owner (Billy Peltzer) unlocks Gizmo out of his cage, so Gizmo can do all of the work. But if you didn't watch Gremlins 2 (Or Gremlins in general) you wouldn't know who had just unlocked Gizmo from his cage, and or why Gizmo was in a cage, or WHO Gizmo even was.
On the first stage you start off walking in one direction (Forward) you have such enemies to fight like Tomato's, Bats, and Rats. With your only weapon being Tomato's. You have such pick ups as Silver Balls, a Explosive that looks like a Magnifying Glass, and a Pogo Stick (Which counts as invincibility). You must avoid dropping into the pit, or jumping/walking into the spikes. You will also find doors scattered in each level where you can buy stuff. The whole objective of the first stage would be to find an elevator, to advance to Stage 1-2.
Once you get to Stage 1-2 you'll encounter a new enemy which seems to infest Stage 1-2 right when you get to the second left corner. It's a spider, that spits it's poison at you, but if you kill it, it will multiply into two fast spider babies, that will try to come at you trying to hurt you.
Right when you find the new weapon (Which is a torch), you see a cutscene of a faucet dripping water, with Gizmo (Supposably screaming)
Which when you've seen the little balls popping out of Gizmo, you know it's bad because they're the Gremlins!
What'll Gizmo do! He can't simply kill over 100 Gremlins by himself! Which brings me back to the intro, why did Billy just let Gizmo go off and fight these enemies? With tomato's?
Well poor Gizmo gets thrown into a local air vent by the newly born Gremlins, meaning you have to find a way out of the vent. By starting Stage 2-1 you must find your way out of the vent to kill the Gremlins once and for all, with your torch. Here you must fight Bats, Rats, even the poison spitting Spiders have come back to try and kill you, and Moving Bombs, you must also avoid the spike balls that go back and forth from vent wall to vent wall, sometimes pits (Why's there pits in a vent I do not know.), Spikes, and the electric lines.
Here you've got to have fast reflexes otherwise you may just get hit by the spike ball, into the electric line, or get hit by the spike ball and fall into the pit. When you go past the first corner and go to the right, you'll see a darkened out person, right when you get close, he runs away. Could it be a Gremlin? Could it be a Human?
Right after you find your way out of the vents you find yourself in some underground basement place of some sort. But this is where you can finally kill some evil Gremlins, such as flying Gremlins, fire breathing Gremlins, jumping Gremlins, and skateboarding Gremlins that throw explosives at you. You'll also have to avoid Spikes, Pits, and Spike Balls.
The first fire Gremlin is about the hardest one to get (If you don't have a balloon) if you don't have a balloon you gotta take 1-9 hits since you have to get on the spike platform to the right, once you get to the other side you can finally kill the first fire breathing Gremlin.
Right after you've advanced to the next stage you fight your first boss, he's pretty easy just avoid his jumps at you and his clawing, you'll then get a paperclip as a weapon (Why take paperclips and not keep the torch is beyond me, I mean yes the torch has a shorter shooting range but fire's more effective) . You also don't get a cutscene (Which is kind of lousy ;_;) Anyway here on Stage 3-1 you'll be fighting Gremlins in the studio (Just like the movie) except they put a few more stages (Like the kitchen, Cemetery, etc) to make the stage longer. Anyway you'll have to fight against Hands that come out of the ground that throw things at you, flying Gremlins, jumping Gremlins, Green Gremlins that throw pineapples at you, and Bats (But these are bigger bats). You'll have to avoid Spikes, Spike Balls (Which are worse here due to them going round and round and round in circles), and Spikes that blow up.
Stage 3-2 is like Studio part 2, but with different enemies such as Flying Gremlins, Jumping Gremlins, Bats, and Normal Gremlins that just run at you. You'll be avoiding Drills, Spike Balls, Electric Lines, and Lava.
The second boss is the Electric Gremlin. He's actually easier then the first one if you stand farther away from him and just unload paperclips on him. Your third weapon is the bow like when Gizmo was pretending to be Rambo in the movie.
Billy then comes in to capture the Electric Gremlin in the phone, which he should be helping you more then just appearing to capture the Electric Gremlin.
Enemies in 4-1 are Flying Gremlins, Hurricane Grem- actually I just end this with the ending since this review is getting a little longer then needed.
A Giant Spider Gremlin comes out of nowhere, meaning you have to kill it, with your trusty bow!
The ending cutscene goes on, along with happy music. Does this mean the Gremlins get to live in peace and harmony?
Erm, what's Billy doing?
They don't get to live in peace and harmony after all?
Nope, instead Billy unleashes the power of the Electric Gremlin on them melting every single one to happy NES music...
That's kind of sick and twisted... But anyway on with the ratings.
Gameplay: The Gameplay is quite good, pretty much no glitches occur. 10/10
Controls: Pretty easy to get used to and play. 10/10
Sound: It has new NES noises and songs, and sounds actually pretty good. 9/10
Graphics: This is another game where it had MINDBLOWING graphics at the time and brings nostalgia. The characters can also move quite good. 10/10
Replay Value: This is one of those games you play once, and play after weeks to get more enjoyment out of it. 7/10
Final Score: 36
