Review by dandyboy on 23 Jun 2012 (Rating: 2)
This was a very promising game with dark overtones but , alas , it ended up as another disappointment to add to my list .
Tower of Evil has everything in common with games like Atic Atac except for the quality .
The movements are too fast . you can hardly control your hero . enemies are too numerous .
An hybrid between Atic Atac and Quasimodo combining the worst from both titles and with no redeeming feature at all .
by John K. Wilson
Looks like the poor man's Atic Atac at first glance, but playing and reading the instructions it seems it's got enough personality and nice touches on its own, although nothing fantastic. The nasties are really wicked, I'd say, jumping in from the doors while you're trying to get out of the room, and flickering unpredictably around you, and they're never tired to appear and re-appear, for all your attempts to definitely destroy them. There's definitely something suffocatingly evil in this game - the vaguely hellish fires you have to jump in the transition from a level and another, the deceptive shiny sphere-eggs that suddenly becomes new shooting enemies on the third level, etc. And you have to collect the treasures and bring them back to the first level. Distressing. Nice atomization and rematerialization of your character when he dies, and very cute blaring tune in the option screen, that contrasts disappointigly the absolute silence during the game.
All in all, it's not bad.
3/5
