Overall 7.3 Graphics 6.5 Sound 5.6 Addictive 4.8 Story 6.1 Depth 6 Difficulty 8.1
5.8
The Horror of Friday the 13th Zircron Swift
Friday the 13th is a well known horror film about some man in a hockey mask going around byn the name of Jason and killing people. The game - made by possibly the worst gaming gaming companies ever, LJN - decided that they should make a game based on this game. Now, most people hate this game for either being too hard, terrible sound or just the logic of the game is too profound. Lets have a look and see if there's anything behind that mask.
So the game starts off with the game telling you to light the fire places with a torch. Why? I'm pretty sure they didn't do that in the film. Although I never saw a Friday the 13th film, so please do forgive my ignorance. Then you get to pick a plzyer. There are six in total, three girls and three boys. Two of these six can run faster than the others. After you pick someone, your ready to start playing. Your weapon is a rock. Annoyingly, this archs over the zombies head. But this can be sorted by holding down and then throwing your rock. Ooo, a knife *walks to knife, then jumps* You have to jump to get the item. Hey, a torch. Now to go inside a cabin and light these fireplaces. Apparently these fireplaces are only in the big cabins.
So, I'm in a cabin, now I walk forward and now I must turn right. Hey, a note of some kind. How do I get it....Ah, there's a menu here with the following: Change, pass, cure, take. So I press select to get it and press A....nothing. Select, take A!!! *presses A harder* Still nothing. Select, take, B?. That worked, for some reason. Isn't B normally back? Ok, it says "go to the cabin by the cave." I was just there. Well, lets light tgis fireplace *lights fire place* And now to leave....Wasn't there a corridor here before? I can't get out! Oh wait, there it is. So I need to go back to where I started like that note instructed. Pressing start opens the map. So, I need to go right, through a path, and then left....seems simple enough *walks right* hmm, that's odd, isn't there a path here, lets look at the map. WHAT? It's telling me that I went left, even though I went right. That is not a good feature. It's never a good feature. Better refer to the map often then. What's that beeping?
It's the Jason alarm. Fighting Jason already? That was quick. Looks like I need to go to the flashing green cabins. It's close. It looks like I have one minute to get there or someone dies. Hey, a key, I'll pick that up. Hmm, a red potion, I'll take that as well. After some misleading directions I reached the right cabin. There's someone here, one of your characters. He's saying "Thank you", oh, so I must have scared Jason off. Well, time to go back to the....the alarm is still on. Looks like he thanked me for coming to his aid. He must have a lot of faith in me to assume I'll kill Jason to thank me in advance. So I go back in, trun left, go forward, look left and righr. Nothing. Well, better head-HOLY SARADOMIN EGG PIE!!! Jason appeared out of no-where. He was behind me, even though I passes him. To be fair, not many things make me yell out of fright. Even those screamers on youtube don't make me flinch anymore. But this make me yell like I haven't done in years. Your going to pay, Jason. You can move left and right, but I can't seem to dodge his atracks. How do some people do it? I am now dead. That red potion gives you some life if you die, which is nice. I died again. I learned later that by pressing down and left/right, you can lean to dodge Jasons attacks. Everytime You die, you can pick another character, until all of them have died. After hitting Jason seven times, he will flee. So it's one of these games, huh? Bring it on! But first, to go into that cabin by the cave.
In it, there was a note telling me "go into the cave." Ok, I'll do that. I explored the cave, got a knife from some zombies, and a key. I didn't really find anything, and the Jason alarm had gone off. I can't get out of this cave. I'm going round in circles! Aggghhhh! Hey, is it me, or is that rock brighter than the others? I wonder what happens if I press up....A secret! A door that is locked. This key should do the trick. Inside is....the Medusa boss from Castlevania? Turned out to be Jasons mother. No wonder Jason wears a mask. She is creppy, but after killing her, I got a machete as a prize. Time to get out of this cave. The game seemed to have pitied me, as I got out stright away. I had 20 seconds to get to that cabin. I have to admit, this is my favourite part of the game. Racing against time to get Jason. On more than one occasion I litteraully had one second left when I got there. Ok, I'm ready for you, Jason. *flinches* Die Die Die! Take that. He has a lot of heslth. It takes seven hits with the rock to deal one point of damage to him. This is going to take awhile....
I decidec to go into the woods. And now it's night. There are crows and wolves to worry about in the woods. There are a lot of red potions here. If you need them, go in the woods and jump a lot. It works for me. Although you can get lost in the woods in the same way as you get lost in the cave. I came across another locked door. I needed another key. When I got it, being called out once by the Jason alarm and losing a lot of health, the door held a note behind it. It said "fire will hurt Jason the most." That explains the lighting the fire places. But where can I get a flame thrower? After I lit a few more fireplaces, I saw it. A match on fire. Awesome, it's a weapon. Lets get Jason. After responding to the Jason alarm, this baby deals one damage for every hit! After he fleed, I went out, only to find him on the streets. This caught me by surprise and he killed me. lucky I had a lot of red potions. I was able to deal major damage to him. He fleed again. I could accuratly do this. I chase after him and jump over a zombie for speed when....a knife appears and I lose the match on fire. Yup, I stand a good-WHAT? I lost the best item in the game for a bad one? What kind of programming is that? Why would you want a worse weapon when fighting a physico-path? Well, I'm stuck with the knife. I tried going back for the same item, but no luck. After some Jason hunting, I was on my last life, and he had two hit points left. I could do this. Alas, I failed. The game over screen said this to me: "You and your friends are dead. Game over." Not the nicest thing to say when you get a game over. But it could be worse. The game could have a catchy and cheery game over song with someone singing made up lyrics to that song stating how useless you are.
Well, I'm done with this game. It's way too hard for me *gives the game a look as if it were staring back at him*....curse you! Fine, for the sake of doung a review, I will kill Jason. I'm going to turn off the music and play the typical montage song: Eye of the Tiger. Before I do that, I must talk about tne music: It sucks. It's annoyingly repetitive. I could add bad lyrics to the out doors/cave/woods song:
I am, running, running along,
I am, throwing, rocks at zombies.
The Jason, Alarm, has now gone off,
I must, go to, the green cabin.
Oh my, goodness, there is Jason,
I am, throwing rocks at Jason.
The game didn't try, so why should I? Although the cabin theme is eriee and does work, so I gotta give it credi for that. Now, Eye of the Tiger.
*plays song* after a death and some item collecting, I finally killed Jason. This game might be really hard, but defeating Jason can be really....what's this? "Watch out, Jason is still alive, and he's stronger than ever!" *gives the screen a stare* Of course, it wouldn't be a proper Friday the 13th game if Jason didn't come back from the dead. Well I'm done, I defeated Jason once, and that's good enough for me....although for the sake of the review, I'll give it a shot. Well you get to keep your items, which was kind of them, and they refilled your health. They even keept thr people that died dead. Although I got a game over pretty soon, as Jasons attacks have changed.
Overall, I give this game a 5.8/10 I have to be fair, I did enjoy this game after I got passed its profound logic, terrible music and the fact thzt no-one has faces. I didn't like the game at first, but now I wouldn't mind playing it again. But the fact still stands that they didn't try very
hard on the game. They could have done better. That being said, if you want to challenge both you skills and patients, play this game. It might even scare you like it did to me...
Graphics 6 Sound 3 Addictive 7 Story 3 Depth 9 Difficulty 10
Review Rating: 3.7/5
Submitted: 07-22-11
Updated: 07-22-11
Review Replies: 5
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Friday the 13th and LJN Hideki
Fridaythe 13th,an awesome movie and a horrible game,as the title says, LJN's games are a disgrace,making games about movies like Nightmare On Elm Street, Backtothe Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and also making games comic heroes like Wolverine,Spider-Man, Punisher, there is a limit to stupidity,if one of the games is not good, why do more??
Well, we're talking about Friday the13th, the game would bean awesome side-scrolling game,but we're talking about LJN, then you know what I'm talking about?
Well the game's goal is simple,you should find lighters,go to ALL homes and find a chimney and ignite...simple huh?And for you to find the lighter you need to killzombies or finding in heaven, and to further facilitate the stroke you use is a stone tha make arc over you enemy , and to facilitate even more,when you least expect it appears a sound,that means Jason isthere to killone of theteens that you choose athe beginning of the game are to choose six, three boys and threegirls,so you go back to Jason on the map and look where he is , is this the right so you go to righ right? NO,but itis not clear that, after walk to find the house,you notice that this going to the wrong path, it is and of course to finish with a golden keys,lets talk abouth the Jason, if you do not believe you can see,THEY (LJN) transformed it into a totally different person,
HEIS THE PURPLE SHIRT AND PANTS PURPLE....
PURPLE?
THERE ARE NO WORDS THAT DISTINGUISH MY ANGER AT THIS TIME.
well at least made a good game
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Graphics 7 Sound 5 Addictive 6 Story 7 Depth 7 Difficulty 7
Review Rating: 3.4/5
Submitted: 06-06-11
Review Replies: 3
9.5
Good game for LJN. DannyMyers1978
This is a really great game to make off from a slasher film franchise made by a big movie company.
If you are a big fan of Friday the 13th, you should try to play the game from the same title for the Nintendo Entertainment System made by LJN. It is really good after all, if you like it, but sadly some people hate it. :(
I have been really fascinated that this have been a wonderful time playing this game because how it is like playing the counselors from the Friday The 13th movies. It is really great. Well, basically I love the movies and I have been really liking it because the game and the movies are really great.
The game is really based on the first 6 movies from Part 1 to Part 7 since the game is released in 1988 when Part 7 was released in theaters the same year the game was released and when Halloween 4 was released.
Graphics 10 Sound 10 Addictive 4 Story 10 Depth 6 Difficulty 7
Review Rating: 3/5
Submitted: 08-18-12
Review Replies: 0
6.8
Its OK...... DionysDDR
This game is based off of Friday the 13th's slasher movie. First of this is a pretty good game. Despite the fact it was made by the WORST gaming company. So what you have to do is stop Jason and protect kids. You can get weapons fight Jason and other creatures. If this game was made into one of our modern platforms like the X Box or PlayStation it would be reviewed better and be more scarier. I frankly think it gets scarier every minute you play. You can roam around finding clues to stop Jason to get more in depth or protect the children or just hide. That's the thing I like its your fate at the hand what will YOU do. The graphics are pretty good considering the time it was made. Like I said the depth is very good. The story is pretty unique considering you have to explore all around and find keys and other items. Sound isn't pretty good the music is though as night draws it gets creepier. Considering this is a horror game you might expect more sounds. I'd definitely play this game again, and over and over.
Graphics 2 Sound 3 Addictive 3 Story 6 Depth 5 Difficulty 7
Review Rating: 3/5
Submitted: 03-29-14
Review Replies: 3
7
Friday The 13th Review Marcmoney
Overall - 7
Friday the 13th is what you may think of a horror game, well it's not. All of the places are sunny, except for the forests. The game is so confusing to what I am about to tell you. I must warn you, it is not going to be what you expected.
Graphics - 9
The graphics are good. The only thing I do not get is why Jason is dressed in purple. It is just so weird to see that.
Sound - 7
The sound is okay some of the time. When you play the game, it plays that song over and over again, but the good thing about it is that it changes song when you go into a cabin. By the way, the song in the cabin is awesome. :)
Addictiveness - 5
I would play this barely because it is kind of like a waiting game, you just have to wait till someone spots Jason on the map and you have to go there and find him.
Story - 5
Basically, you start out with one of the six people that you can be anytime. I think that they put one black person so that it would be fine with blacks, I don't know. Anyway, you just wander around and like I said, you just wait till they find Jason attacking the children. When the alarm goes off (that's when Jason has been found somewhere), you go to that place to find him and fight him. Fighting him is not that easy, it is just a 50/50 chance that he will hit you if you hit him. Oh, and to win this game, I think you have to light up a fire place in all of the cabins. I do not know if it is just only one cabin.
Depth - 6
The game has horrible features. It is a big map and you can attack the zombies that come out of the ground and attack them with gray balls, yeah I said it.
Difficulty - 7
The game is quite difficulty because one thing is the stupid map. When you see Jason on the map, you try to go there, but the only problem is that when you want to go on the trail you want to go on, some of the time you are just going the wrong way. My advice is check the map constantly when you start searching for Jason. Another thing is that when you want to attack the zombies coming out of the ground, you can't throw your gray balls (or something) at them at a far distance, you have to be either half way from the end of the screen to the zombie or closer. It is just ridiculous because you are definitely attacking them in the face at a far distance. :S
Wrap Things Up...
Friday the 13th has some problems in it, but it is not that bad of a game when you get used to it. I recommend trying this game out, even though it is not very scary, it is in fact a cool game to play when you want to just verse Jason. :)
Graphics 9 Sound 7 Addictive 5 Story 5 Depth 6 Difficulty 7
Review Rating: 3/5
Submitted: 08-17-11
Review Replies: 2
6.8
Friday The 13th ZacharyPiskura
When I think of Friday The 13th I think of a hockey masked killer going on a killing spree in New Jersey country sides, and certainly not lighting fireplaces and fighting weird zombie creatures with rocks! Friday The 13th is one of the NES's Horror Movie sets, and this is one of my least favorite. I played this game to see a late night setting and eerie music and a menacing Jason stalking you, but instead I got a comical setting upbeat music and you stalking a purple Jason. Ok, graphics are regular NES graphics, I mean what else are you asking for, its the 8-bit era. The music would do well for a Sonic the Hedgehog game, but let's not into 16-bit stuff. This game is not addictive, so you'll play it once ( probably to its long amount of game play ). This game has a lot of story, you get the lighter light the fireplace, you repeat for three days, and when the Jason alarm goes off you have 1 minute to save the kids and if you die you start ALL over again ( VERY. IRRITATING. ). This game also has quite a bit of depth. And due to the long game play, and the start from the beginning rule this game is very difficult. If you are thinking on playing this game, I suggest you play another game. I like A Nightmare On Elm Street on NES, I like Halloween on Atari 2600, I like Texas Chainsaw Massacre on Atari 2600, I don't like Friday The 13th on NES!
Graphics 7 Sound 7 Addictive 2 Story 8 Depth 7 Difficulty 10
Review Rating: 2.7/5
Submitted: 08-11-11
Review Replies: 3
0.1
Your Dead?????????? WTF??????? supersayianbroly
Ok Friday the 13th the game fans of the movie series cried, and waited in anticipation for the release of this uh piece of um wait can't say that here.
Friday the 13th the game is based off of a very popular horror movie franchise, and that's exactly what fans were given with this game, a horror.
You start off with a rock you are told to light the fireplaces with a torch, well you finally get what they are talking about but wait, since when is a zippo lighter a torch??
If this was supposed to be a reference to the English (UK) torch, then shouldn't it be a flashlight?
Sorry I am rambling.
Anyway you walk around listening to the same music repeat in an endless cycle collecting torches (shudders) throwing rocks at zombies?
Wait is this Friday the 13th or dawn of the dead? What ever if you are lucky you will get a knife which will actually hit the zombies all the time not just once in a while.
So you are walking around killing zombies all of a sudden a blaring annoying alarm goes off oh the campers are in trouble look at the map, ok it is the cabin down and to the left, so you walk that way and , WTF? You have gone up and to the right how in the dang kids died.
Ok now you get the torch you go into the cabin spend 10 minutes trying to find the fireplace light it spend another 10 trying to leave the cabin, sometimes while you are in the cabin Jason pops up and wants to box like in Punch out.
So you can switch between different character's but lose all the items you had unless you switch while in the cabin they are in and give them the items.
You also walk through woods and caves fighting wolves and bats ok I can see that you also fight Jason's mother's head which looks like Medusa and flies. A flying head?????
Also at night Jason randomly pops out and attacks you trust me you need the knife to beat him.
The point of the game is to light all the fireplaces and keep your people alive, once you light them all it is the final showdown with Jason again punch out style.
If you beat the game you have more patience then me.
The best part of the game I am sorry to say is the game over screen if you die, it says
YOU ARE DEAD
Wow Nintendo was blunt with that one.
This game is not even worth paying 2 cents for but if you do it is useful for one thing.
Remember next time you want to light your fireplace the game makes a great torch.
Graphics 2 Sound 1 Addictive 1 Story 1 Depth 1 Difficulty 10
Review Rating: 2.3/5
Submitted: 10-12-12
Review Replies: 3
9.2
Very underrated dukerichards
This is another game that didn't get the best reviews when it first came out but I actually loved. Much like the C64 Friday the 13th game, it was panned by a lot and loved by many hardcore Friday the 13th fans such as myself.
My only real gripe with this game is that you do not have the option to play the role of Jason Voorhees, and even though some of the gameplay may seem a little monotonous at times, I didn't find it that much of a hindrance and I really enjoy this game and used to play the hell out of it when it first came out so many years ago.
So go ahead, take a stab at it.
Graphics 9 Sound 9 Addictive 10 Story 9 Depth 7 Difficulty 7
Review Rating: 2/5
Submitted: 05-18-13
Review Replies: 1
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