Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle is a difficult game to recommend as it has very few if any redeeming features. The story is paper thin ( Alex's father King Thor has been kidnapped and imprisoned in a castle on the planet paperrock, Alex must go there and rescue him.) And has one of the worst endings of any video game I have ever played, which i won't spoil for any of you brave enough to play the game the whole way through. The Graphics and sound are only a slight improvement over some of the later Master System titles. But the real problem is how the game plays. Alex slides about as if he is trying to run on ice, making some of platform sections unnecessarily tricky. The collision detection is also poor and with Alex dying as soon as he vaguely makes contact with anything, there will be plenty of frustrating deaths. Boss fights in Alex Kidd are fought by playing a game of rock, paper, scissors, so they boil down to random luck as opposed to any skill on the players part. Having played the game through, I struggle to think of anything that stood about about it, it's just a very generic 2D platform game with poor controls and is vastly inferior to the original Alex Kidd in Miracle World. If you want a slice of early Sega, I suggest you play that instead.
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