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i recently watched a video of a youtuber named the sunshine feeler where he talks about the mega drive in japan and he said he feels altered beast's concept is underutilized and it made me think about how magician lord takes the same concept and make it for me a more enjoyable experience what do you think about this comperasion?

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[โ€“] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I loved Altered Beast in the arcade, I also never played Magician Lord and will have to look into it. A similar game I think is Sword of Sodan, that my brother barely let me play on his Amiga, which was pretty cool too.. lol

[โ€“] databender@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Playing Altered Beast in the arcade and seeing the first boss tear his head off is the entire reason I got a Genesis