Wing Commander: Prophecy for Gameboy Advance

[Spiderman]

Got this over the weekend and man, is it tougher than the PC games. The little arrow controls are definitely inferior to a joystick. Plus, it took me a while to figure out that I had more guns/missiles/decoys than I thought I had since the manual is very skimpy. Still, it's true to the Wing Commander universe that I'm used to and despite having to re-load and replay each mission about 10 times at least, I'm enjoying it so far (though only on the third mission )

 

[Notepad]

Sounds mighty interesting.

What do the graphics look like? Is it like the SNES Wing Commander, or did they actually improve upon them for the GBA?

 

[Spiderman]

Haven't seen the SNES Wing Commander so can't compare to that.

To me, they look the same as Wing Commander 1 & 2 on the PC. Don't know if that's good or bad but at least it's familiar.

 

[Notepad]

Sounds good. I think I remember those, and the SNES one I think looked like them. One more question: Does this game have a Maniac-type character?

I absolutely enjoyed killing Maniac in the SNES game.

 

[Spiderman]

Yes, actually Maniac and Blair are in the game, Maniac as another flyboy jockey and Blair as a/the Commodore of the fleet.

 

[Notepad]

Fun times!

Next time I have money I am gonna get it. DIE MANIAC! DIE!!!

Unfortunately that'll be a while as I bought Super Mario World for the GBA, which has a lot of fun tweaks to make it worth playing again (not to mention that it is now portable).

Ah, nostalgia porting...