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The Transformers: Mystery of Convoy (JP) is a game released to the Famicom and based upon the popular Transformers toyline. It is noted for its unfair difficulty and was never released in the United States. The game uses a strobe effect popular in Japan at the time. It has since become controversial due to concern over people with photosensitive epilepsy.
Gameplay[]
The player controls Ultra Magnus, who must shoot his way through 10 horizontally and vertically scrolling levels consisting of various Decepticon enemies, with a boss fight at the end of each level. He can transform into a car carrier, which makes it easier for him to avoid enemy attacks, drive through narrow entrances and shoot enemies that are flying above him. Along the way, he can also pick up various power-ups which can give him wider ranging firepower or even the ability to fly. There are two Warp Zones within the game; they can be found by rescuing Bumblebee from the Decepticons.
The bosses for each level consist of mostly large Decepticon symbols in different color palettes. The only Deceptions Ultra Magnus actually fights are Megatron, who for unexplained reasons is the penultimate boss, and Trypticon (known in Japan as Dinosaurer), the final boss.
Another playable character in the game is Rodimus Prime, who can be unlocked by collecting the letters that spell Rodimus. One is hidden, sequentially, in levels 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9. However, though his vehicle mode has its own graphics, his robot-mode sprite is Ultra Magnus in Rodimus's palette.
Plot[]
Reception[]
Transformers: Mystery of Convoy is known for its high difficulty level and poor stage design, resulting in a largely negative reception both at release and retrospectively. 1UP.com called it the "perfect example of a shameless tie-in." They criticized the game for its high level of difficulty, the game's implementation of the transforming ability and how the ninth stage loops infinitely unless a specific pattern is followed.
In popular media[]
The game was the subject of an episode of The Angry Video Game Nerd. His criticisms include the fact that Optimus Prime is not in the game despite being in the title, and the fact that all the robots look alike.
External links[]
- Transformers: Mystery of Convoy at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Transformers: Mystery of Convoy at GameFAQs
| Transformers series | |
|---|---|
| Console games | Mystery of Convoy • The Headmasters • Beast Wars Transmetals • Transformers: The Game Revenge of the Fallen • Cybertron Adventures • Dark of the Moon • Prime • Rise of the Dark Spark Battlegrounds |
| Handheld games | Ketō Transformers Beast Wars • Transformers: The Game (Autobots/Decepticons) • Animated • War for Cybertron |
| Related | Takara Tomy • Brave Saga • Zoids |
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