Dr. Chaos: Jigoku no Tobira

a.k.a. Dr. CHAOS 地獄の扉 / ドクター・カオス地獄の扉 / Doctor Chaos - Jigoku no Tobira

published by Pony Canyon in 1987-06-19, developed by Marionette, running on Famicom Disk System

type: adventure, action/reflex, platformer
perspective: 1st person side view
player options: single player

languages: jpn

Personal review

"Dr. Chaos" is an unusual action/platform game that reminded me of Konami's The Goonies II, because in both games you can explore special rooms in first-person-style adventure mode. In Dr. Chaos these rooms are only for finding extra weapons and ammo as well as the entries to warp zones. In those zones you make your way from left to right, kill a boss, collect a part of a super-weapon, and finally - and thats not really nice - walk back to the entrance of the zone in search for the next zone. The game is only average in graphics and music. It is playable, there are no control problems. But the game feels a bit repetitive. The warp zones are too similar, a few more graphical themes would have been nice. The adventure rooms look bland and undetailed and mainly consist of trying to open everything and hitting all the walls for finding hidden passages.