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27) Dauntless Another 'kill eight things and move on to the next level - don't get hit' game. You control what is likely trying to be an American plane and your adversaries appear to be of the Japo-Germanic ilk. As usual, enemies come from both the left and right sides of the screen and fire things at you. Both you and your enemy take one hit to kill - during a collision with an enemy, you're the only one to take damage. Insert obvious, unfunny joke about the inferiority of American-made products here. A few things actually separate Dauntless from the previous 26 games exactly like it. First, yes, some impressive graphical effects are utilized: sometimes clouds enshroud the planes, and sometimes they don't. As with traditional platform jumping in the first Action 52, this is a very remedial accomplishment in most games of its era, but when these guys pull it off, it seems like it seems much greater than it actually is, like a Special Olympian performing a somersault or Michael Moore scrubbing the vast ravines of his body. Other than that, and the fact the music of the odd-level stages is in the running of the best song found on this collection, I can't think of a way this game stands out, and I certainly can't think of any reason to play this game at all. I guess this puts it in the top tier of games on this cart, then. |
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