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Nikki is an acrobatic, part of the Flying Fleugel Family, and is voiced by commercial and home shopping spokesperson Helen Rosenthal. He carries with him a sentient similar-looking stick-puppet Sid at all times, talking with a butch voice and spouting catchphrase-level quips.

Fargus is an unfunny off-kilter jester voiced by actual funny comedian Greg Proops. Even our plucky hero duo sport attire that look like they were cribbed from a low-rent Shakespeare Halloween costume shop. The world of Pandemonium! is referred to as Lyr, a realm cobbled from multiple standard Renaissance Faire-grade fantasy of dragons and castles and magic abound. Fortunately, its current publisher Square Enix makes both readily available and cheap to acquire, so experiencing this rather okay duet isn’t a hard bargain. Pandemonium 1 & 2 serve as time capsules and a bit of a warning about building success between platforming dimensions and how-tos for characterizations. The issue was that there was a spark there for a kid-friendly fun romp from the company that could’ve been polished up, but instead sought that crowded older crowd cash that led it into minor obscurity.

#Tomba ps1 ending full

The push for full 3D movement was already in full swing even with the release of the first title, and better 2.5D games like Klonoa outclassed the series critically.

The Pandemonium franchise lost steam fairly quickly. Though like the dark age of comics during the 90s, the push for image consciousness meant a later drastic mood shift would come in short order, causing a stark change in tone between the two titles merely less than one year apart from each other. After all, their other published titles for the 1996 season were for the Teen and Mature rated crowd, so a game safe for the kiddies ready before Christmas is good for business, and with a few thousand polygons to move in a new dimension, what better way to test the waters but with some hop and boppers too cool for even Sonic? A platformer for the future disaffected slacker teenager starring, what else? Disaffected slacker teenagers. Pandemonium!, at least with the first game, had that family-friendly Shrek-level of snark akin to the company’s reptilian platformer (with less pop cultural references). Most of their lineup of IPs scream the grunge adolescent ‘tude wanting to stick it to the establishment that speaks to the 12 year old male inside of us with Tomb Raider, Legacy of Kain, Gex, and more. Now, Crystal Dynamics is a company that can only be born of the 90s.

But Namco’s mascot platformer wasn’t the first to this one-half of a dimension, as it was beat to the punch by the first Pandemonium!. This brief period of transitional gaming was rarely used to its full potential - at least a nice balance of 2D and 3D in one package - with the Klonoa games being the most acclaimed and best remembered of true 2.5D. Thus, the term “2.5D” was spawned for the middle-ground of mostly 2D gameplay in a 3D environment, a term that’d be later watered down to include the likes of Street Fighter IV and the New Super Mario Bros. series, despite no use of the Z-axis whatsoever. However, until everyone followed the path Nintendo made with its 3D Mario, developers were still unsure the best means to use their new dimension, creating many evolutionary dead-ends for 3D movement like in Bug!. Suddenly, Toy Story became the benchmark to gauge graphical prowess and anything 2D (or at least not prerendered CGI-looking) was now SOOOO last decade. 1996 was watershed year for gaming, giving the world the classics Super Mario 64, NiGHTS…Into Dreams, Crash Bandicoot, and Quake. As Nintendo, Sega, and the new kid on the video game block Sony debuted their new 32/64-bit consoles and 3D graphic accelerator cards became available to PCs, the push for polygons and the Z-axis went into full swing. By the mid-90s, the Golden Age of 2D was about to meet its demise.