Publishers: Blizzard, Interplay, Sega, Kemco, Vivendiĭevelopers: Blizzard, Paradox, Blizzard Entertainment I wonder what Blizzard might have become if this was their big hit instead of Warcraft.Īnyway, if anyone else has the itch for kickass 90s action platforming with a shotgun and a badass protagonist named Kyle, you can grab it here: Alternate name: Blackhawk (european title (unverified)), Black Thorne (common misspelling)Ĭharacteristics: Action, Adventure, Platform, Arcade, Medieval / Fantasy, Puzzle-Solving It's pretty funny seeing how the game had a lot of visual similarities to Warcraft too: humans vs orcs, magic and technology, fantasy empires, etc. It was a pretty fun experience playing through this again since it had been so long I really didn't remember any details from the game at all. I only had a single health! Instead of giving up, I backtracked and looked everywhere on the level, and lo and behold, there was a secret passage in one of the rooms with a hidden potion! That felt soooo good. My favorite moment in this playthrough was when I had a single health left on a level, and I had wiped all the enemies in the area out, but to get to the next area I would have to drop into a killer plant, which would kill me because. Generators where you need the right bomb to detonate, Leviatators to reach higher areas, the right keys for bridges and doors, etc. The action is well paced, the enemies are satisfying to kill, the level layouts are designed with lock and key adventure concepts but masked pretty well for a game of this sort. But aside from that, the game holds up really well. There are certain areas where you need to make these really tricky jumps and if you fail you die instantly and have to do everything in the level again. That's probably the only dated part of the game. Been playing it on and off so some of the cheaper deaths wouldn't get to me.
I finally beat the game after almost a week. Blackthorne though, this is the real deal! Satisfying, kickass, and surprisingly filled with really good level design.
That turned out to be a little more frustrating than I would have liked, but it definitely scratched the itch for a bit. I've been craving a retro shooter/platformer lately, and I was playing Rolling Thunder again last month. Blizzard's been putting up their old classics for free on the site since late last year, so I figured it was time to give Blackthorne another spin.
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