ILLUSION 64
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System : standard Falcon
Paranoia is back with this entry to their own party, Paracon 3 held in last
December in Germany. Erm here I'm a bit confused : I think this is supposed to
be a 96Kb intro, still it's not even 70Kb... I suppose more screens could have
been stacked in then.
Nevermind, let's start it : a nice chiptrack is started while some poetic
text is displayed with a one plan white font. All letters are shaking as if
they had eaten mad cow ! Nice idea. After three screens of text, we move to a
fire background, meaning a classic fire effect emerging from the ground. Soon
enough the now usual razor blade (aka Paranoia's logo) enters the dance and
goes wild into the fire, thus creating fire around its own edges. Nice colors
btw.
We are now presented with a static screen with an ILLUSION word standing on
a textured background, all in grey scales (wrong choice here). Then the whole
screen goes zooming out, changing to a rotozoom, our logo repeating as many
times as possible. The - already seen before - rotozoom goes mad as its corners
distort wildly. The tunnel fades away with a nice circle effect that reminds me
a lot of DHS typical stuff. I guess there was some intervention of Evil here :)
It gives way to a colorful mapped tunnel, the usual kind. After a while it
goes off with the same nice circle effect.
The last part features the same font as seen first with some poetic lyrics
again until we are shown an ATARI Paranoia logo. That's it.
Bottom line : Paranoia gets better with every production and this 64Kb (or
is it supposed to be 96Kb ?) with nice effects and colors, neat transitions and
a cool soundtrack. I only wished there was an extended version so that this
intro could reach 96Kb. Now I can't wait to see Paranoia's next step !
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