I finished The Firemen (1994) last night with the NTSC patch. That is a really interesting action-adventure that I’d never heard of before this week.
All the “enemies” are types of fire (does that make them a type of guy?) or malfunctioning robot that has caught on fire. All your attacks are video gameified versions of what I think might be real life firefighting techniques where spraying water directly acts as your ranged attack, spraying at the floor is like your melee. There is some kind of like ABC dry chemical bomb you can pickup and use as an AOE. The game’s quite short and yes it’s easy, except the bosses (well I thought they were challenging). The setting is very obviously Die Hard with a different premise. What dangerous chemical company keeps their products and white collar workers under the same roof?
My favourite part had to be the surprisingly sophisticated dialogue. There’s party banter throughout between the player characters Pete and NPC sidekick Danny with their support crew. I particularly enjoyed Pete’s childishly dressing down the building’s architect about his design choices. Lots of fun to see that in an SNES game.
oh yeah well you were an average game so there
