Pulseman

I'm sure some of you have heard of it..... Sega's lost plattformer, Pulseman.
This game had the potential to be every bit as good as Sonic, with it's charming character, awesome music, and innovative play mechanics.
Unfortunately, the games designers seemed to have gone complacent after designing all of these great concepts. The level design was as drab as hell<think Donkey Kong Country>. Everything was so flat, pallid, and dull that it dragged it down from being the genny's premiere plattformer.

Before anyone mentions it, yes I know that there were 'pulse puzzles'. And those also fell short of their potential. There was no thought required whatsoever....

Still, Pulseman is a great game and any if you are a 2D platt whore you definetely check it out. The amazing play mechanics somehow salvage this game and place it right behind the Sonics, RKA's, Castle of Illusion and Tiny Toons games as one of the best genesis plattformers.

Sadly, SOA never brought this game over. Was it becuase of the threat that was DKC? Or were they just thinking out of their behinds?:(

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http://digilander.libero.it/emugifs/pulsemanmd.gif

I read about it in ODCM. It seemed like a very fun, original game. Damn shame it wasn't released in the states. Maybe I'll track down the MD version somewhere down the line.

Sega passed on it because Game Freak is incapable of making popular things. :)

Pulseman is quite good and it's a shame it wasn't brought over. Hopefully this, Alien Soldier and Monster World IV will resurface one day.

As far as genesis imports go....
Monster World 4>Cotton Panorama>Alien Soldier>Pulseman>everything else

MW4 has been transhacked, so it's acessible to everyone.:)

Pulseman is one of my favourite games ever. Pulseman himself is a brilliant character... a sort of Sonic-meets-Megaman, but cooler than either. The graphics in the game are among the most amazing on the Mega Drive. They are trippy and colourful and strange and beautiful. The gameplay is excellent as well because the game offers a unique and rewarding experience.

Finally, I have to disagree about the level design. Some of the levels were very cleverly designed. Think of the India level with all of the wires that you could ride to different parts of the level. The levels were fairly linear. They didn't have different paths like a Sonic game.. but I can honestly say I never once thought the level design was bland. The focus of the game is more on the gameplay and killing enemies and acquiring items..

I would love love love to see a new Pulseman game in the future. A 3D game could be amazing.. but I'd settle for a new 2D or 2.5D game as well. ;)

And without further ado... Here is my favourite and most often used avatar, though I have not used it lately:

http://icyicy.com/avatar/pulseman.gif

Hrm.. maybe I'll switch back for a while.. but I just made a new .hack avatar... Hrm...

You should bring MW4 back.

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Originally posted by xS
You should bring MW4 back.

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Ah yes.. The recent MWIV avatar was rather short lived...

http://icyicy.com/avatar/mwiv.gif

It's a good one too, but the "sggg" is hard to read on TNL 2.0. MWIV is such an incredibly good game! It'll be back eventually. ;)

Are you playing a legit copy or the fan trans?

i agree that pulseman is a wonderful game.

sega actually released this on the sega channel, which is (indirectly) how i found out about it. it's this game that perpetually makes me wish that gamefreak would take some time off from pokemon and do some cool stuff on the GBA.

I'm glad the Sega Channel wasn't made sooner and didn't take off. Sega probably would have made more games Sega Channel-exclusive.