Ice Climber is a vertical platform game for the NES from 1985. It is the second game in the Ice Climber series. The story is that the two ice climbers Popo and Nana's vegetables have been stolen by a condor. They have to climb 32 of mountains to get them back.
The first thing I noticed was that the graphics are really bad. I also noticed that you can skip right to the last level or do any level before that. The music also was pretty good. You play as Popo and run around hitting things with a mallet. The game is pretty easy but it's hard to get the bonus sometimes. The goal is to reach the top of the mountain and dodge various enemies. Jumping on monsters does not kill them by the way. I never spent the time to beat the game, but I don't really fell that I would get anything by doing so, the levels are so similar. Maybe I'll just skip to the last level and find out. The last level is nothing special except extremely difficult. I guess that means there is a good difficulty arc, but I actually can't beat that level and I tried five times. There is no extra things to do after you've beat the game.
SCORES
Gameplay-6 The idea is good but sometimes the controls don't work or you fall into a trap that will kill you repeatedly until you get a game over. Also you can't jump on enemies.
Graphics-3 The graphics were really bad
Replayability-7 The game isn't that great, but really you could keep playing the levels over and over.
Size-8 There are a lot of levels and some of them are really challenging so it's pretty big.
OVERALL SCORE: 6

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