Could have been an NES great with better internal game aid.

Great game, if it wasn't so frustrating. My son, who can win any game out there was almost in tears with this game. They make it almost impossible to win without getting cheats. My son hates to use cheats because he feels he didn't earn the win. He loved the acutal game set-up and action as do most of the game's afficionados, but when they don't let the character back inside of shops or lead him into empty ones that cause his death when he returns to the world, it makes an exceedingly difficult game impossible. You can be the best gamer in the world, but won't get rewarded for it until you are pretty far into the game when most people would have given up. You finally get extra lives long after you have thrown your NES across the room and well past the point that a normal game would give them to you. My son did get through the game after I forced the cheats on him. Now that he got through once, he can actually get through without the cheats. He does love this game and I would love to give it five stars, because it could have been an NES great if they just didn't make the player so discouraged with lack of purpose places and placing game aid too far into the game.Read full review