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Lode Runner 3D
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Item Description
Lode Runner was born in 1983 as a puzzle-action game about grabbing gold, dodging guards and digging a hole at exactly the right moment. Lode Runner 3-D, developed by Big Bang and released for the Nintendo 64 in 1999, asks what happens when those single-screen stages wrap around three-dimensional structures. As Jake Peril, you take on the Mad Monks and their ruler, the Mad Monk Emperor of Planet Pandora, across five worlds of spiraling levels.
The core rules are pure Lode Runner. You climb ladders, slide hand over hand along ropes and drill holes in the ground to trap the monks chasing you, sometimes using their heads as a bridge while they are stuck. Collect enough gold and an exit portal opens. The 3D twist is that levels are mostly spirals and towers you work your way up and around, with branching points where you can head off in a new direction, so planning a route means reading the whole structure rather than just the screen in front of you.
There is plenty to chew on: each of the five worlds holds five stages of four levels, a hundred puzzles in all, and opening the next world means tracking down five cards hidden in the one before it. New interactive objects, tools and obstacles arrive as you go, so the puzzles keep shifting even as the basic rules stay the same.
Critics were divided at release, praising how faithfully it captures the brain-teasing feel of the original while grumbling about the camera and the small character models, but that faithfulness is exactly the appeal. This is a demanding, old-school thinking game dressed in N64 polygons, published in North America by Infogrames and in Japan by Banpresto, and a fascinating look at how a puzzle game from the dawn of home computing was rethought for the 3D generation.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1999
- Publisher
- Banpresto
- Developer
- Big Bang
- Genre
- Platformer, Puzzle
- Players
- Single player
About the game
The game mechanics are similar to the original; you outrun 'monsters' by using alternate routes, sliding on ropes, climbing ladders or drilling holes in the ground to trap them. This game differs from the other incarnations of games from the series because of its apparent three-dimensional perspective. While essentially running in 2-dimensional space, the player has an option to move in another direction every so often. The levels are mostly spirals that require climbing to complete. There are five worlds and each one must be unlocked by finding five cards from the previous world excluding the first. Each world is divided into five stages with each stage divided into four levels. The general goal of each level is to collect a certain amount of gold to activate a portal that allows the player to continue. As the player progresses, each world adds new interactive objects and tools as well as new obstacles.
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Lode Runner 3D
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Lode Runner 3D
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