Rescue: The Beagles

I was playing the original Rescue the Beagles game over and over for years. I still have it on my hard drive. It's one of my favourite and most played games ever. I was actually recommending it to a friend a few days ago and trying to find it on webarchive it caught my attention that this wonderful remake is on Steam now. What a surprise! It is quite simple, small game, but it's very addictive. And it's not worrying kind of addiction, because its also pretty hard, so one session with a few runs won't take a lot of time. But you will be coming back, because how can you stop rescuing poor dogggies?! It has a very unique charm. Sounds and music are also adding to the magic. I really love this game.

어떤 경로로 받았는지는 기억이 나지 않지만, 온라인에서 무료로 다운로드해 수십 시간을 즐겼다. 스팀에서 우연히 봤을 때, 기꺼이 구매할 만큼 훌륭한 게임이었다. 다만 아쉬운 점은... 이제 나이가 30대 중반에 접어들고 나니 예전처럼 잘할 수가 없다는 것😞

An excellent runner!

Just a good arcade game, nothing else.

I remember playing the original version of this game way back when I was a kid, in the old Windows XP days. A couple years back, I rediscovered that version and that it still worked on new versions of Windows; imagine my surprise then to find out there was a ground-up remake, and that it's every bit as addicting as the original. The new features all feel completely natural to the game's core: besides the complete graphical overhaul, there are new power-ups that grant temporary invincibility, a new obstacle in the form of water that affects level layout and temporarily restricts movement, and a new upgrade system to improve your abilities each run. A public steam release also means global leaderboards, as opposed to the arcade machine-style local leaderboard of the original. They even added new multiplayer game modes. Besides that, the gameplay still remains untouched, and the sound design along with two separate soundtracks remain untouched. Overall, it adds up to a "yeah, I'd call this the definitive version of Rescue: The Beagles". With that said, though, I do have a couple critiques. One is with the upgrade system: it gives you all possible options every time, so if you have certain preferences, you'll always choose the same upgrades every time unless you're going for achievements. It's the one thing that makes the game feel a little stale, and in my ideal world, it would be adjusted to only offer a few options each time, to encourage variety with each run. This one's only a minor complaint, however. What [i]isn't[/i] a minor complaint, is the game's control options. Controller support has this strange baked-in feature where the stick can only be used in gameplay while the D-pad can only be used in menus, so anyone who wants to move with the finer control of the pad or just navigate both options without lifting their thumb is out of luck. There are also no options to rebind controls either on controller or keyboard. If this part was adjusted, at least, that would make this a perfect product in my eyes.