30 Day Blogging Challenge: Day 4 – Your Guilty Pleasure Game

This is going to be a difficult one – I have so many different guilty pelasure games. See, I find a greater appreciation in either the underrated, underappreciated or just plain awful titles. That’s how I’ve always been, though the latter isn’t as prevalant these days. I could easily tolerate the terrors of Friday the 13th on the NES, or Kablooey! on the Super Nintendo, yet the filth of this generation, such as Mindjack and Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1, cannot be tolerated for more than a few minutes.

If there’s a single one I just HAD to pick out (since I’m obviously on the spot now) it would be a game I reviewed last year as well. One that gets a ton of flak, both deservingly, and undeservingly:

I’m fully aware of all the issues within Silver Surfer, though there are quite a few that are overblown to some extent. The overall difficulty is excessive at times, but it’s not all completely unfair. Like most other shoot ‘em up titles, there’s a reliance of pattern recognition, though it is magnified more than the average title in the genre. It really is a schmuck dodging roller coaster ride, but there’s something underneath all that difficulty that really captivates me. Maybe it’s the guy that looks like an old Bret “The Hitman” Hart on the enemy stage select screen? Maybe it’s the avatar shown for the last boss of the game, and how it looks like Mr. Sinister, an arch enemy of the X-Men? It could probably be that hypnotic, ill-fitted music that is catchy as all hell?

Silver Surfer isn’t a game I will outright recommend to anyone, for the simple fact that it really can become an infuriating journey that usually never sees past the first stage of each enemy stronghold. It’s the sngle guilty pleasure title I chose simpl because I’ve defeated the game several times before, am used to how unfair the challenges can be at times, and yet it still entices me back to it several times a year. I literally hook my NES up every season or so and give Silver Surfer an honest go at. While it can torture me at times, I do find some sadistic pleasure out of it