The Dynastic Hero -- All In One.

I'm playing the waiting game again. I have more than enough games I could start. I probably have too many. Problem is none of them fit into the timeframe available to me. I have roughly a week before Mass Effect 2 and No More Heroes 2 arrive. It's that idea of wanting to give each game their due. You don't want to rush through a potentially great game. Right now I'm sitting on Assassin's Creed 2, Bayonetta, and a backlog that goes back to numerous PlayStation 2 RPGs, and way too many Xbox Live Arcade and Virtual Console titles for example. While playing Darksiders, on the side Magus and I jumped back into Crackdown and its download content as a means to both sort of kill time and get ready for the sequel. I thought I'd use The Dynastic Hero to kill some more time, but I blew right through it. I played the game too close to Wonder Boy in Monster World. I remembered where everything was. The Dynastic Hero is the TurboGrafx CD version of the Genesis game Wonder Boy in Monster World. It's essentially the same game with some cosmetic changes. The Wonder Boy theme has been replaced with an insect based theme. The hero has been modeled after a beetle. The good guys are various types of bugs. The bosses have been changed to creatures who naturally tend to eat bugs. The names of places and characters have been changed. Since the game was CD based, they added a CD-DA soundtrack along with a FMV intro and ending. They've also made the game considerably easier. Especially the final boss. The gameplay is classic Wonder Boy in Monster World. It's still great fun. I have to say I'm not a fan of the new soundtrack, higher sound quality or not. The composition pales to the original version. I also find the insect theme to just be bizarre. I'm not sure if I'd have felt the same way if I hadn't played the rest of the Wonder Boy series before this game. It loses the continuity of the Wonder Boy games. The new sprites just make the graphics seem a bit off. The new script is far too goofy compared to the original. I'd recommend this version only to fans of the series who are looking for completion and who would otherwise be interested in this anomaly. I'm giving The Dynastic Hero a 7. So now I'm once again tasked with figuring out what to play to kill some more time before next week's must play titles arrive...