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Arc Of Yesod
Thor £8.95 May 1986 YS5
Graphics: 10/10
Playability: 9/10
VFM: 7/10
Addictiveness: 8/10
9/10 Overall
 
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Max Phillips
Doooiiing! He got the motion, he got the action, man, the boy can play. Arc's just the thing for all those who've got a cold in the nodes. It's the Rt. Hon. Charlemagne Fotheringham-Grunes back in his somersaulting splendour, bouncing through Thor's beautifully detailed flicker-free graphics, collecting crystals and generally dealing with one of those teleporting alien monoliths that frequent films like 2010 [sic?].
    Things haven't changed much since Nodes of Yesod - it's still the split pixel, platform-leaping, nasty-avoiding bizarre that makes you think there's lots of life left in the platform game. If you've got Nodes, the only reason to buy this is if you like it so much that you want to carry on in a slightly different variation. If you missed out on the original, you're missing out on one heck of a game.
    Personally, I'm completely hopeless at both games. I can't make head nor tail of the wacky inlay card (who do these guys think they are - Ultimate?) and I keep falling into the same inescapable room with awful regularity. But winning has nothing to do with it... I just love the way Charlie moves and am quite happy to sit there jumping up and down till my lives run out. Fab'n'gear... get into this Arc next time it starts raining!

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   CRASH  9/10    Sinclair User  8/10   
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