5/10/2023 0 Comments Hots the lost vikings guide![]() There’s no way to look through the entirety of the level so each section went something like this: Move Olaf the shield guy forward, move everyone else a little bit, kill the enemies, run into a section you can’t see past, die, realize how you were supposed to do it, start over and try again. The game requires a lot of trial and error to figure out the puzzles and even the platforming works that way in the later levels. I don’t remember how well I did renting this as a kid, but I’m guessing I didn’t get anywhere near as far as I did this play through. It’s a silly comparison considering that game was basically Tapper if you had two bartenders. The only other game I can compare it to is the Mario Bros pie game in Game & Watch Gallery 3 for Game Boy Color. It has a dynamic I’m surprised wasn’t used much in games to follow. The Lost Vikings requires a level of patience beyond what you’d expect from a 16-bit era platformer. ![]() Each level is basically just different colored platforms but you’ll climb trees, ladders, and even inflate your vikings to get past some of the sections. You’ll fight cavemen, dinosaurs, pharaohs, scorpions, and more through caves, pyramids, volcanoes, spaceships, and other odd places for Norsemen. The level design has a bit of variety to it. The aliens, or “Croutonians,” do a terrible job keeping the vikings in their ship and you warp around from world to world trying to get home. One day all three of the vikings were out hunting and then aliens came along and captured them to put them on their species display. The story has a level of depth literature fanatics will go bananas over. You can switch between each viking with the L and R buttons, and in order to finish the level you need to get all three vikings to the exit. Each section of the levels requires you to use each viking’s ability to get you from point A to point B. Baleog can attack each enemy with a sword and bow, Olaf has a shield to defend from attacks and slow your fall, and Erik the swift can run fast, jump, and smash certain walls with his head. You play as all three vikings each with a unique ability. The game is described as a puzzle/platformer title but that doesn’t quite describe the gameplay. The Lost Vikings was the one of the first original titles developed by Blizzard, then called Silicon & Synapse. For newer Blizzard fans, these characters may be unknown, but for those of growing up in the 16-bit era these characters are collectively known as The Lost Vikings. Their names are Baleog, Olaf, and Erik the Swift. Last November at Blizzcon it was announced there would be a new unit for the upcoming Heroes of the Storm MOBA. ![]() The Lost Vikings is a welcome trip through Blizzard’s time capsule. Three Vikings Walk Into a Spaceship… Praise Odin for nostalgia.
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