Where's Waldo? (NES) - Positives - Rerez

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When I was a kid in grade school and went to the library to pick up books for our book reports I always was lazy. I would pick up the least amount of words in a book that you possibly could get and for me no other book had less words than Where's Waldo. A book that literally just has you looking at pictures and finding Waldo. Very little to read and I loved it. When I picked up Where's Waldo for the NES I expected to have the exact same amount of joy that I had with the books. Where's Waldo for the NES. Let's find the positives.

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Where's Waldo is a very special kind of NES game because while many NES games out there are based off of television shows or movies Where's Waldo is based off of a book. Not only that, it’s a book without words! The premise of any Where's Waldo book is that you open it up and look at this really highly detailed picture and try to find Waldo. And that's exactly what the game does. Only it doesn't work. While the books have these very highly detailed drawings the NES is incapable of doing that because it's limited by its resolution and well it's an NES. Some games are designed around the limitations of the graphics to really give you a good sense of what you're looking at. But it really feels like in Where's Waldo they didn't try that. That they went for a who gives a s*** approach. Good on you guys you did a great job.

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One of the things that the game does right is that the gameplay is very similar to what you'd be doing reading an actual Where's Waldo book. So because of that positive number one is it accurately mimics the Where's Waldo books. The level details are kind of bad that much we've already established but that doesn't mean that the game is easy to play. Waldo can be hidden anywhere in any of the levels and every time you play it he kind of appears a little bit different. Sometimes he's a different color than how he was in the previous stage and it actually can be very challenging to find him and that kind of adds to the gameplay. So positive number two as the game is actually pretty challenging.

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If the game was just finding Waldo in every single stage that would have been pretty boring but one thing that they did was they switched up the gameplay a couple of times. One of the interesting changes introduced is the subway stage. The subway stage is kind of a change on the gameplay and is more of a maze type of situation that goes on and it's actually pretty fun to play. You switch up certain spots of the maze to alter your path for this little thing that you’re driving. It actually is kind of fun to play and going all the way through to the end can be a little challenging and a little bit fun. It's not amazing but it is pretty cool and because of that it earns the spot of the third positive. So the subway level is positive number three. When I started this game I thought that it would be very easy to just play it all the way through on hard mode because I knew where Waldo was every single time but that's when I discovered something. Waldo's location randomizes. That's smart because that's something you actually don't get in the books. Every time you pick up a book Waldo's in the same spot every time because it's a book. At least with the Waldo game every time you play a stage, especially in hard mode, Waldo’s location changes making it a little bit more challenging and a lot more interesting. And possibly more replayable not that you'd want to do that but because of that positive number four is randomization.

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Where’s Waldo for the NES isn't a good game but they did try some neat features that would have probably done well had it been on a newer system. But because of the time period that they released it there isn't a heck of a lot of visuals that they could have worked with. So you're looking at a game that attempted and failed. But at least it attempted. So Where's Waldo for the NES maybe try it or maybe not. I don't care.


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I remember those books, I spent so much time looking for Waldo, that's hilarious! I forgot all about him lol

really likes your story..specially about that u had chosen the book contains least amount of words.i do the same man.keep posting ...

Nice post, keep up the good work!
Thats interesting. Thank you for sharing.
upvote back please
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can i play the game on my pc?? pls suggest

Awesome ....
Thanks for sharing

@rerez quality post dude. Do you read comments on videos? I'd love to hear your advice.

Great as always mate :)

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