1984 State Soft (UK)
by Richard Huddy aka Fatman
Bristles is not a bad game, only a little bit confusing. Everything moves too fast, so any slight distraction could mean the end of the game. Of course if you like 100% code machine games without any 'speed limits' this is for you.
Review by dandyboy on 10 Nov 2012 (Rating: 3)
Curious and pretty original stuff from the early days of the Spectrum ... Bristles is a game with some character but not totally perfect .
Weird key disposition , unclear goal , confusing plot , almost too fast , etc.
A sort of Mario Bros precursor .
by Richard Huddy
Graphically a bunch of pixels and a couple of splats of colours, it's nonetheless quite a playable and moderately addictive game. You must paint the inner walls of a house, only it seems a house out of The Evil Dead, because it's all crazy and frantically moving, and if you run along a story you don't know where you will be at the end of the race, because there are demented elevators costantly going up and down, and not perfectly identified things running everywhere, maybe buckets [of paint], but why and how should a bucket run? Things got a little more sane when I discovered the jump button and the possibility of leap over the lift shafts, and the buckets etc. It's one screen at the time with progressive chaos and difficulty, later I've seen a woman appearing and I don't know what her function is, and then I had to pick up lots of gloves, and I don't know what's after that. So, it's better than how it appears.
3/5
