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Great platformer.
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I always thought that I really liked this game in my youth, although I mostly played this on my C64. After playing this game quite a few times during the LemonAmiga-competion, I find this one of the least fun game I played in quite a while.
I find the controls very unresponsive and unintuitive. There are so many cheap deaths, mainly when you want to evade an incoming enemy, but you're not capable of moving because your character is still finishing his previous move. This is the case when jumping and not being able to evade enemies unexpectinghly falling from the top of the screen or even worse, when your character is strolling on to a rainbow, even if you don't want to, causing you not being able to move while your character is doing so. And quite often, the top of the rainbow you're climbing is the place an enemy is waiting for you. There were more players who complained about this.
If you are playing this game for points + reaching all the secret areas, I think that the strategic element of killing enemies in a certain way and place on screen to get the right diamonds is making the game less fluent and well... Not a lot of fun.
Add to this some questionable collision detection at times, certainly when things get a bit crouded on screen and I think you get a dissapointing game.
I really wanted to love this game, but today I lowered my rating for this game from an 8 (mainly based on memories from my youth) to a 5.
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Absolutely love this - one of the best platform games ever!
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This game is utter crap. The controls are rubbish and game is way too hard and unfair to the point its unplayable and not fun. The little chubby guy can go shove this rainbow up his a...
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We tried it x times with my bro, but it's too pink for us. We're able to play with two small dragons firing bubbles, but not with small girl spelling rainbow. I'm sorry, but it's not for two guys in middle age
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Taito was one of the very few serious competitors to Nintendo and Sega in the platformers arena during the 80's and the 90's. Its titles were distinctively cute and addictively playable. Rainbow Islands has a fair share of responsibility for this reputation, being simply one of the best platformers ever. The Amiga version is not arcade perfect but is nonetheless one of the most accurate arcade conversions to the system, retaining very much of the original look and feel. Rainbow Islands might be dated and flawed but it's still great fun (8/10).
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Fun platformer. I first played this on a friend's Atari ST and liked it so when I got an Amiga I bought the game and was glad I did as it is a very fun and enjoyable game. Good graphics and sound and bags of playability.
A solid 8/10
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This is my favourite of all the Rainbow Island conversions out there.
The controls feel nice, the graphics look well and for a while it's very enjoyable.
The difficulty just gets too insane to be fun though, especially some of the later bosses are very hard to beat. The final boss is insanely hard even completely powered up and without some power ups probably impossible. Add to having to collect all the diamonds in the specific way and order it should be done and you've got a very very tough game.
The music also gets very irritating after a while.
Great to pick up and play a few levels now and again 7/10.
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Very good conversion of an arcade game that, sadly, I wasn't such a great fan of. The controls are iffy (even on the arcade version) and the gameplay is frustrating because of it. But I can still appreciate the technical brilliance of the conversion. If only all were this good...
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Almost arcade perfect. A damn good ST conversion that was ported to the Amiga. Not much to be done for the Amiga version to match the simple coin-op. Starts easy, the 1st and the 2nd world are relative easy, but after the 3rd (as in most coin ops) it is hell. Very very hard to pass the guardian of 3rd level unless you have 3 rainbows and use some pattern to kill the dracula in stage 3.4
A 9/10 for sure
(would be 10/10 if the sound was better and 3 islands were not missing).
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I don't understand why this game was so hyped back then and why I liked to play it - maybe because I saw it through naive children's eyes. The bad control system that won't let you turn around on rainbows, unfair situation once you lose a life and all your extras, as well as the hard to achieve secrets (which is what you'll be going for if you want to play it correctly) completely ruin the gameplay.
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One of my favourite games. Great visuals and some interesting hidden gems.
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Classic late 80's Taito. Can't go wrong with this one.
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Everybody should play this game.
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Not a bad little game but prefer Bubble bobble
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Not at all the perfect conversion they talked about at the time. The three secret islands were completely removed (why, we'll never know), and the playing area was limited by status bars at the top and bottom, cutting it in comparison to the arcade. Still, very enjoyable and awesome platform game, but since I have the arcade on Mame, I don't feel the need to load the Amiga version anymore.
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Unless I've missed something major, how come so many talk about this as some kind of acrade perfect conversion? Not only does it lack 12 levels from the arcade version (including the one that ties the game together with its predecessor, how ironic), but also it runs in 25 fps (forced PAL) instead of 60 (I don't even know if there is a NTSC version out there, but even if there is... That would still mean 30 fps instead of 60). And if that wasn't enough, they severly cut off parts of the visible playing area with those pitch black status bars at the top and the bottom of the screen. Still, it is a great game, but arcade perfect is is not and has never been. Its a shame, really, because the Amiga in itself never was the problem with this particular conversion.
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This game is simply the best platformer on the Amiga and also the hardest, yet fairest. Nothing in the genre will test your skills more so if you defeat it, you're elite. For example, what other platformer forces you to make your own platforms sometimes, because a level has almost none? This is an excellent conversion by the gurus of Graftgold, even with the missing arcade-worlds. You don't know platformers until you've mastered Bubble Bobble->Rainbow Islands->Parasol Stars.
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I absolutely adore this game. Back in 1987 (1990) and 2009. Perfection allaround, and a perfect Arcade>Amiga conversion.
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Nice follow up to Bubble Bobble. Extended in vast areas and still very playable and addictive. At the beginning you will be a bit frustrated with the features that bring you shooting rainbows but after a while you will get accustomed to it and you won't be able to imagine how the game could be difficult without them. For sure the game for youngsters but the old geeks will have nice reminiscence of the past.
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..But what about only collecting diamonds in the consequent order (from left to right) finally opens other islands? Could this fact increase frustrations and decrease the overall fun to play it?
This is a doubt that regularly assaults me when I start it. Despite that, this conversion is 99% accurate, gameplay is high so no one cares about..
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Quite original and certainly a classic. The graphics are pretty simple but cute and cartoony, and very colourful. The concept is a fun idea and will keep you busy for a while, and the music is pleasant to listen to.
Though I have to admit I sucked at this game big time. I... Got up to the third stage once though. That was pretty good for me!
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Sequel to Bubble Bobble not a bad game but prefer Bub-Bob
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Nice cute game but it lacks the 2 players simultanneous mode, which would help a lot. I like most then prequel - Bubble bobble and even the sequel - Parasol stars.
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Top cute-em-up platformer of its day and a great arcade conversion. I really enjoyed this game. Was fairly hard to beat and had cool end of level bosses.. Oh and arguably more playable with the old Amiga Joystick than on the consoles/arcade version
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You name it, Rainbow Islands has it. Cute graphics, addictive music, high quality sound, crazy & addictive gameplay - I love it. It's arcade perfect (if not better) and you can seriously see the Japanese influence in this game.
Rainbow Islands is what arcade games are all about! 100/10 (if you'll let me get away with that one)
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A good game, but I've always been annoyed at the simple, not to say cheap, graphics. I never played the arcade version, so I can't really compare. Nice game, with a style that would suggest it's a kids game, but it's really too hard to be that.
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No need to add anything. Perfect game to play with your sister or girlfriend
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A magnificent game that's even better than its superb prequel "Bubble Bobble". The Amiga version isn't just arcade-perfect it's arguably slightly better.
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Technically very good game with rock hard gameplay. Shooting the rainbows made me silly.
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Great game - wonderfully colourful. Very very tough though - never finished it. Sometime you could do quite well by just jumping and shooting rainbows like a lunatic!
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Played this for ages! Great game. Very cool graphics. Never finished it though. I think I reached the seventh island but got killed within three seconds. Really enjoyed this game.
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Hard...but excellent.
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What can I say? I never thought I'd see the day I'd be spinning out rainbows and attempting to get away from a rising tide till this came along! Absolutely brilliant! I just loved trying to get the gems in sequence (depending on what part of the screen they fell on!) and getting to that lovely bulging treasure chest at the top! They just don't make them like this anymore!
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Could be incredibly frustrating, but was good fun too. Not the best Amiga game ever (like those fools at Amiga Power said), not even close, but still good fun.
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Good coversion of a slighly overrated and incredibly frustrating arcade game. Never understood why they followed one of the most classic 2 player modes in Bubble Bobble with a 1 player at a time deal in this. Killed a lot of potential fun.
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This is a really nice game.
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A very good conversion of a near-perfect original.
Bar a lower frame-rate and the missing bonus islands this is identical.
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Great game, but as a Bubble Bobble fanatic I had hoped for a simultaneous 2 player mode (obviously I hadn't seen the arcade original either). So it's not quite in the same league.
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Pure Graftgold goodness, and applied to a game that was already great in the arcades, too. Fast and furious gameplay, hidden stuff, tons of bonuses and truckloads of cuteness, how can you beat such a recipe?
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Great conversion of a thoroughly mediocre arcade game.
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Just as childish and boring as the C64 version.
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Platforming perfection - responsive controls, varied levels, classy and surprising enemies, perfect collision detection, lots of visual character, beatable but challenging bosses, plenty of hidden bonuses, and lots of bits where you have to weigh risk against reward.
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Top-notch arcade conversion that was maybe just a bit too cute.
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