PlayStation 5 User Reviews

Wow. The extent to which Digital Eclipse provides background and historical artifacts on Karateka is impressive, and even borders on going a bit too deep in sections, but you aren’t forced to look at anything you don’t want to. The various ports of Karateka are incredible to play, and it’s great to see the small changes and enhancements between them. The remakes are also very impressive. The remake of Karateka is probably the best version of the game to date. But it’s the remake of Deathbounce that is truly incredible. Digital Eclipse took Jordan’s Deathbounce prototypes, plus the notes he developed over time, and made it into an actual complete fun game to play. The visuals are retro-styled enough and the twin stick shooter controls make it feel like a perfect version of the game. Truly impressive. For any fans of Karateka, or any retro enthusiasts, you have to check this out.

Amazing. This took me back 40 years in such a detailed & structured manner. Remastered & beautiful Karateka. With original & bonus prototype game modes. A full & detailed documentary, history & everything in-between make this such a fantastic package. Like Atari 50 before it. These game/history hybrids are amazing. More please as this is a perfect way to spend a few hours.

WOW! Probably the best game documentation available to date. Class research, preparation in the form of texts, interviews, videos, pictures and documents in very high quality, 3D still images, animations and former first versions (Deathbounce) by Jordan Mechner can be played. There are both published versions (Mac, Atari, C64), NEW versions (2023) and unofficial versions of Karateka to play which are part of the documentation but can also be selected separately. In principle, you can choose different settings such as filters, monitor settings (color, SW, monochrome), etc. in almost all versions of the game, as well as save your game save or change the key assignment! All this is a lot of fun and is hellishly interesting. The only pity is that the subtitles in the interviews are not also available in other languages. This would definitely be an added value and should not be an effort purely from the implementation. It would also have been desirable to be able to play emulations of the Atari ST and IBM versions than to be able to consider them only as screenshots. So the whole thing would have been more rounded. Conclusion: Please give us more of it!! More Making of .... :D