UK Magazine Reviews
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PixParticipant
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Here’s all the reviews I could find for Blackthorne. Just the 2 this month and the one mag I have a near complete run of, PC Zone, didn’t bother reviewing it at all which would at least explain why I didn’t hear about the game at the time. Not that either of these reviews would have made me likely to buy it.
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TijnKeymaster
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Weirdly I think this game would be better received today than it was back then.
Also “too many buttons to remember”. Errr.. how many are there besides the arrow keys? Four? Haha
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PixParticipant
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You are probably right. It’s a plus point for me to be able to play another game like Flashback/Prince Of Persia these days. I would say it’s fair criticism that Blackthorne isn’t necessarily better than any of the games it is copying. £40 does seem a bit steep looking at it now given all of those would have been budget titles by then.
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TijnKeymaster
Podcaster
Yeah, definitely. Maybe the price is also where it shows its SNES-roots, where budget games weren’t as common as on the PC?
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