A good platform adventure from Hudson Soft!

User Rating: 10 | Adventure Island II NES

While I've known for a long time that a Game Boy version of this game existed, it was only recently that I stumbled upon the original NES version of this game, on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console! This game is actually a major step up, from the original! With enhanced graphics, improved difficulty, a new over-world map with many different Island Level designs, clever looking enemies and bosses, hidden bonus areas, and the welcome new addition of being able to ride helpful new dinosaur partners, who provide IMMENSE help in getting past different types of difficulty (such as the Plesiosaur helping you through the water stages, the Pterodactyl helping you through stages that involve a LOT of careful jumping, a red fire dinosaur that can walk on lava and magma, and a blue ice dinosaur that doesn't slide around on ice), this game really shows just how much the NES has progressed in a matter of four years, from 1987! :D I highly recommend playing this game, if you HAVEN'T already! 8) Enough said, true believers! ;)