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Firefly

• Publisher: Ocean
• Developer:
Special FX
Release Date: 1988
Code: Tony Pomfret

GFX: Karen Davies
Music: Fred Gray

ZZAP64 Game Rating: 79%
Our Game Rating: 84%
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> FIREFLY by Ocean


• Completed & Reviewed by Neil Collins

Firefly is a great original game from Ocean. Just like other Special FX team productions, the graphics are very good, and the game is very well presented and easy to play. Your objective is to battle your way across the space grid to the power source at the other end and shut the enemy's power down. You have to collect 4 yoka power units on each level and then shut down the relevant 4 power stations. It takes some doing, as there are many enemies that try to stop you along the way.


Final level is complete!


The switch is flicked...


...and the level comes to a close.


KABOOOOM!


The End.

HOW WAS IT COMPLETED?: Using an infinite lives cheat.

SO WHAT HAPPENS?: Once you get to the other side of the grid, you throw the power switch. This causes the grid to evaporate, your bonus to be counted and then your are told that the grid has been reset. You then get thrown back to the start, but the grid has been randomised. I battled through the game again, only to find that it repeats itself over and over.

COMMENTS:

  • Neil: Rubbish. What a naff end.
     
  • Vinny: I'm not impresses with this ending at all. I like playing the game and find it enjoyable, and so I was really expecting something a little more engaging than this cacky ending :( Did the programmer run out of memory, ideas, or was it that he just couldn't be bothered?
     
  • Andrew Fisher: I like the music and graphics in Firefly, just found the gameplay too repetitive in the end. It reminds me of Mutants a bit too (which loops after 16 levels). Simple explosion effect, 2/10.
     
  • Andy Vaisey: What Mr Fisher said. Decent enough, but too 'same-y' getting mundane in the end. And another crap ending notched up on the site...
     
  • Brendan Phoenix: Agree with you Vinny about the Special FX and Ocean games, cant think of one I really raved over. Bag of shi*e ending, one off the list

FINAL SAY: Very poor end to a great game.

G.E. RATING: 2 / 10

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