Fester's Quest (NES)

"This game better stop SUCKIN' ASS or else I'm gonna have give it the finger. The middle finger."

- The Angry Video Game Nerd

Fester's Quest, also known as Uncle Fester's Quest - The Addams Family in the title screen, is an NES game published and developed by Sunsoft in 1989. It is based on the Addams Family TV show.

Plot and Gameplay
Uncle Fester must use a barrage of weapons to save the world from invading aliens. The game is a top-down action/adventure experience that breaks things up with occasional pseudo-3D mazes.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Even basic enemies have too much health and have a habit of ganging up on you and getting in your way.
 * 2) Fester moves very slowly, and he can't move diagonally.
 * 3) The 3D mazes, while decent-looking, are essentially worthless as the only things you can get from them are items that you can also get elsewhere in the game.
 * 4) You can only upgrade your weapon with power-ups and switching between weapon powers is impossible.
 * 5) At the beginning of the game, you only have two units of life (much like in The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants), and getting more takes a while.
 * 6) The game barely references the show at all.
 * 7) Upgrading your gun is virtually useless due to their erratic pattern making it difficult to hit enemies and even more impossible in narrow passageways because your bullets can't go through walls, meaning they'll hit the walls a lot more than what you're shooting at (this and the first problem were both fixed in the European version of the game).
 * 8) Almost no checkpoints other than the start of the game if you pick Continue after getting a game over, even though you still have all your items.
 * 9) Some enemy projectiles can make Fester slower.
 * 10) Like in Little Red Hood, it is almost impossible to fit yourself through spaces only one block wide.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The over-world and boss music are pretty decent.
 * 2) Other than their semi-useless movement patterns and the fact that they disappear if they hit a wall when Fester's projectiles overlap with an enemy, the hit detection is good.
 * 3) Once you get the whip, you can catch items with it.

Reception
Nintendo Life gave this game their lowest possible score, a 1 out of 10.

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