I am the first to review this game? Wow.

Stumbled into this game while I was looking for something else entirely. Ended up abandoning the search for that something else the instant this caught my eye as I definitely could not resist acquiring this.

Those who grew up in the early 80’s will probably remember playing the original game here. I’ve played this very, very often and these days I have to use a Commodore Emulator to do so. The original was a challenge and continues to be such even today.

Acquiring the achievements for the Emerald Dinosaurs has been pretty easy. One thing I definitely noticed with the Emerald Parasaur is that it has the added difficulty of being able to break out of its cage after 10 – 20 seconds. That was a nice surprise and it even comes with a sound effect that is opposite of the one used when the cage is created.

Want to let all your eggs hatch all in one go? No problem! You can do just that if you desired it…as long as you’re not doing the Classic Game Mode. You will want to make sure to be very patient and avoid Dino Mom during all of this, too. You can even hatch eggs on the same platform level as others. I have had somewhere around 10 dinos on one platform in cages. Just beware you don’t accidentally run into one that is not caged as sometimes it will be very difficult to see them amongst the pack even though the uncaptured ones stand out in that they are not darkened.

Other than the added difficulty as well as the extended storyline that is incorporated into even the multiple tutorial levels the game plays true to the original. Instead of a percentage guage counting down toward Devolution you get a meter appearing right beside you when you are hit. Only the final 10% of the countdown will show any numbers, which should make that one achievement regarding that quite easy to obtain.

Dino Eggs Rebirth is a classic RPG (be it indie) game. In this game you literally take a travel through time in both the story line parameter as well as the presentation. For its a follow up game for a much older yet fun game. As good as it is , it has a very good storyline, but before you read on you must be warned, for this is a spoiler alert.

You start off your game as a person who accidentally ends up in a time travelling portal. He uses the portal to travel through time to millions of years ago, to the age of dinosaurs. Soon his mission becomes to save the dinosaurs of that era by bringing baby dinosaurs and eggs alike to the presemt. In the process he gains fame and money. A few years later his daughter too tries the same thing. Now thats for the story line (any thing more would be a giveaway) But this much I must mention that the storyline is amazing a bit rigid in orientation but amazing.

The games graphics are of early 80’s to begin with, taking us back to the era. It is an indie game but has no bugs. (Although my computer at first refused to run the program). The sound is soothing and overall the game is presented as a narrative. Which is kind of fun.

There are many pros and relatively no cons to this time travelling game. But to name a few:-

PROS

1. Good storyline (very interactive, stops it from being dull)
2. Good music (easy on the ears)
3. Has a narrative styule of story telling (which is kind of fun)
4. Great level architecture (Each level is unique)
5. The dinosaur eggs may hatch any time within the level (which is neat)
CONS

1. The game is a bit too easy to play (Which can be fun at times)

So overall the game gets 6/10 for being a mix of 1980’s and the 2016

Very enjoyable game. If you played the old C64 or Apple version back in the 80’s, it is based off of that with a few tweaks. The story and puzzle mode give it a nice breath of fresh air. It is definetly a game for a niche audience, mostly the older players who grew up on these type of siimple and casual platform games.

The game mechanics are quite easy to master, with some new elements on how to spelunk around. IE jumping onto the spider threads. Can easily be played with a keyboard or controller. You can even set it up to work off of a simple directional controller and one button if you like, as in the original ( I think you can )

I did have an issue with the game not wanting to initiate my Nvidia graphics card on my laptop, as the generic Intel Graphics chip doesn’t seem to be able to handle it. However, this is easily remedied by just going to the Nvidia control panel and assigning the game to run on high performan graphics. Many laptops tend to use both systems and sometimes the Nvidia setup doesn’t recognize that a game needs to use it, when it is set to auto detect which is best.

4.2 / 5 For the nostalgia alone, it is worth the price.