This game makes me sad because it should've been great. There's no denying that Stormlord looks absolutely fantastic, featuring some of the best graphics seen in a spectrum title. The controls are responsive and for a while everything is good. But then you hit some ridiculous difficulty spikes and it ruins the game. Somebody should've told Raf Cecco that being rushed by hordes of enemies that you can't avoid isn't any fun. It's not a challenge, it's just bad game design. But I guess by then he'd become such a star that his co-workers were too much in awe of him to offer any criticism. It could've been great. It should've been great. But it's just ok.
Review by YOR on 06 Mar 2020 (Rating: 3)
Nice title music in this one and nice animation of the naked fairy winking at you, and it's displaying in full view a bare breast, your child has just bought this game and is witnessing a naked fairy with a tit. I'm sure though he doesn't pay much attention to the title screen anyway and just wants to get on with the game, oh there it is again on the first bloody screen. Well, if there is a chance for my grandson to see these games I'm going to have to wait a good number of years before showing him this one that is for sure. But the time has come for me to look at it today. It is beautifully drawn and nicely coloured, but again I judge on gameplay and well, it's bloody difficult. I like its idea but it's no wonder they gave you eight lives and even then you're going to lose then fairly quickly by pretty much everything. Stormlord was one of those games that was popular in the magazines but not so hot with players because of its brutal difficulty. People say that you being so bad at a game doesn't make it a bad game, well it kind of does because it's down to bad game design and this game serves an ideal example of that.
