r/CDInteractive • u/Frequent_Rhubarb_36 • 18d ago

Opinions on the Apprentice?

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To me it's one of the most pretty games on CD-I but it's incredibly hard. A more fair difficulty option would be nice as the gameplay is basic, but fun. It shows how good platformers could be on CD-I.

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u/Drunkensailor1985 18d ago edited 18d ago

Imo a fantastic game. I play it multiple times a year and one of the prettiest 16 bit games ever. The same studio made a sequel game on cdi about lucky luke. Much better graphics even!! But bad framerate 

It is difficult, but doable.

It was made by a dutch team that would later (partly) form guerrilla studios 

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u/Frequent_Rhubarb_36 18d ago

Wow, that's a cool fact. Never knew that about guerrilla.

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u/Drunkensailor1985 18d ago edited 18d ago

They also partly made the famous pc game jazz jackrabbit (2) in late 90s. Part of that team such as joris de man. Another developer of this game tim moss would later work on the god of war games. The creative designer luc verhulst would go on to work on rayman and spyro games

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u/WiiU_DANTE 12d ago

y aprovechando, curiosamente en ese juego ahí también aparece el aprendiz

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u/TheAivoongk 14d ago

I'm new around this subreddit and CDI things and was looking for a way to play this game. What is the easiest/best way?

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u/prisbear 18d ago

Best game on the cd-i imo. Really solid, but difficult platformer

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u/marioxb 18d ago

It's great!

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u/DevLimburg 18d ago

Still remember the cheatcode out of my head. Played it a lot back in the days. Funny thing is that i played it yesterday on the steamdeck for a while. But ended up playing dimos quest from level 1 till 14. Apprentice and lucky luke are both the same style.

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u/ducked 18d ago edited 18d ago

It’s too hard. There was a boss near the beginning I couldn’t get past. I died like 10 times.

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u/Triggerscore 18d ago

Never played it myself. But what you could even tell by only looking at the Screenshot: nice and colorful graphics. Weak level design.

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u/Infamous_Lunchbox 17d ago

It's hard af, but probably the best CD-i game ever made. Honestly if most games had met this quality CD-i may have survived slightly longer than it did.

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u/mallowlives 12d ago

While the PC ports of Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon are fun and silly, this game is the most deserving of a port on the entire system

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u/MichaelDarkwolf 16d ago

Haven't played it since the 90s, So I forget. I am almost 50 after all.

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u/WiiU_DANTE 12d ago

"the apprentice" uno de los mejores juegos rescatables del "Phillips Cdi" por su hermoso arte, y buena jugabilidad. eso sí contar su pinches polémicos fatalitys