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"Too Hard 3" by THE ANIMKOMIALS
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system... Atari XL/XE, 192 KB RAM, tested on AtariWin on P233MMX
size..... 1 diskside
release.. o8/o2
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The Animkomials are quite a while around already but it seemed to be quiet from
them over the last few years. Now they came back to life with a new demo, this
one.
At first some chip music starts to play while you can see a slightly animated
robot moving towards you on the screen... the music sounds quite dull at first,
then it goes mad, a logo of the band appears, followed by a big scrolling
"presents" and a title logo...
Then some stuff like "years passed... blabla, we're back... blabla... we're the
best" comes up... eh? Really? That reminds me hard to the touch of some fake
demos, so will it be such a thing? Hopefully not!
Then the first effect comes up, showing some green texture and the saying "We'
re better than Gumi" in the background while 4 environment mapped torrusses are
moving in... then the screen turns to red colours and you can see three times
more of the torusses now! That is really amazing! So it is at least no fake
demo since it offers some real demo stuff here...
Aarg... again something static...
The screen blinks to white, showing "We're also better than Kröger"... hu? Who
is Kröger?! Then the whole screen turns black, the music starts to go more and
more mad and a complete vector city comes in turning around on the screen, with
little houses and even a church, all hold in grey colours. This screen is very
nice, the vectors are fast but not very detailed.
And another screen is going to come, showing a realtime morph, morphing Michael
Jackson into Osama bin Laden... arg... and then into Wasko. In this case I have
to say that a morph is something different since there aren't much morphing
steps here you could make a little slideshow out of the steps as well...
Another screen is going to come, announced as voxelspace but there an error
message appears, saying something about windows but all in polish so I can't
follow it and so it's time for the last screen, showing a mediocre logo (with a
big ammount of colours in the background), their homepage adress and a vertical
scroller and this one reminds me hard to some fake demo scrolls and messages on
the ST and Falcon since it uses the same dull slang and a bit tasteless are the
greetings to Osama of the W.T.C. group and the "Alquaida Catholics"...
But after all esp. that last scroller gives me proove that this demo isn't
meant very earnest and something like an 8bit fake demo since the alltime
running "We're the best!" slogans can't meant earnest since the demo doesn't
rock as much as so many other demos around.
final words... "Too Hard 3"ð surely isn't a bad demo, but the mix out of fake
and real demo leaves a bad taste. The offered demo effects are
not bad while the fake parts are a bit too dull and tasteless.
This mix gives the demo a hard stand esp. since there is nearly
no straight design included and all looked like smashed together
from different sources... To be the best it needs a bit more...
___ratings______________________________________________________________________
visuals....... 2o % - the grafix are all quite low level ones...
audio......... 4o % - a real nerves tormenting chip music, needs its lovers
effects....... 75 % - some animation, vector city, environment mapper, morph
design........ 15 % - not much to say about, old school, a few nice colours
originality... 5o % - this demo doesn't knows what it is, tasteless fake parts
___overall______4o_%____________________________________________________________
Check the "Numen" demo to see who can say "We're the best!"...
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