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Reviews for On the Run (#3520)

Review by WhenIWasCruel on 13 Nov 2014 (Rating: 3)

Review 1:
It's a more or less decent maze/adventure game, but rather boring, and made useless by the vastly superior examples in the same genre, as Underwurlde, Nodes Of Yesod etc.
2/5

Review 2:
Another maze game with treasure hunt included, one of the zillions of this kind released in those years. Radioactive experiment gone wrong. Mutants. Dangerous zone to be mapped, with important items to be retrieved, in this case seven flasks of something. Environmentally, these circumstances particularly developed the growth of mushrooms, but anyway all the flora is richly coloured and wraps everything, there is no building or artificial element in sight. Mutants flies around draining your energy, and there are lots of unidentified objects, of mysterious use. [Once taken, they just disappear, you have no visible pocket]. Little mushrooms give you back some energy. The game is fast and playable, you can fly and shoot, although your sprite has no animation at all.
The map is not exactly divided in split screen, because you can center the view on your character anytime, changing the portion of area shown. This makes it slightly different from the other games. [but not enough].
The radioactivity + mushrooms theme seems quite clearly inspired by the japanese sci fi/horror movie Matango. The map seems divided in sections by entrances guarded by frog statues. But the graphics of all sections are identical, so there's not much variety. Overall, it's okaysh.
3/5 or 3,5/5.

Review by The Dean of Games on 19 Mar 2020 (Rating: 3)

1985 Design Design Software (UK)
by Graham Stafford, Stuart Ruecroft & Jon Ritman

A maze shoot 'em up game where you must shoot anything that moves, and if it doesn't move you should catch it and see what it does. That's what the instructions say, not much about the main goal of the game, if it just that, shoot and collect, it's fair to call it superficial, but truth be told, none of the objects I picked so far did anything peculiar, I would feel the game if I drinked a glass of water. But I'm told they either cause you death, give energy or teleport you into another zone. Oh, and you have also the cleaning bombs, scattered around the maze and ready to be used. The game is quite addictive after a while, which justifies being Crash Smash game by that same magazine, and the colorful alien landscapes really adds enjoyment, but it's nothing truly special.

Review by YOR on 09 Apr 2021 (Rating: 3)

This one I had many years ago and I quite like this game many years ago. However I don't really understand what I like about it that much because it's so frickin boring. The graphics are nice but there's nothing in the gameplay that screams thrills and excitement. You're just floating around shooting and collecting things and getting lost. The Great Escape for instance is a pretty boring game now for instance but at least the navigation and exploration in that game can provide some enjoyment, this didn't even have that going for it. So no, nice graphics but boring game all round.