A Tarot card reading simulation for the NES video game console.A Tarot card reading simulation for the NES video game console.A Tarot card reading simulation for the NES video game console.
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Just, get a real tarot oracle and stop fooling around.
Oh.... Taboo The Sixth Sense, the urban legend. When was the last time I played this "game"? Well, when I was quite young, but I must say that they were just sporadic moments. The first time I was so scared that I wanted to get the snot out of my nose, the second time with a little more courage and curiosity but still not fully decided when playing it just doing a reading and leaving the "game" and like that for about 5 or 6 times until I left it for several decades. And now I grab it just for the sake of doing it (and to have another excuse to write a review and show to the world my lexicographic superiority) and obviously none of the dark factor of it penetrated me anymore... But...
Taboo has to be one of those things that even within its self-imposed limits is very poor. There were quite a few Tarot simulators even at that time, it was not something new, but one would hope that at least some entertainment factor the "game" would provide (some minigame, scoring system or something) but there is nothing. It's writing your question, waiting to read the cards and that's it, and of course the fortune numbers that to this day I still don't understand how it works.
I have to admit that this "game" does a couple of things pretty well, at least everything related to presentation. Even today it continues to give off a certain "bad aura", and although Taboo is not a horror game by any means, I must admit that the fairly well detailed sprites with that black background and the music accompany very well that relatively suspenseful aesthetic that it tries to achieve. . And guess who composed the music? David Wise. Yeah, David damn Wise. For those who don't know, he is one of the most famous composers in the entire video game industry, and although at this time he and Rare (I suppose another reason why this game caught my attention lately) were not even half as famous, I must say that David Wise's talent is evident here. Just like all the religious references and my god... it's surprising that Nintendo hasn't complained or maybe they reached an agreement and censored it a little. I wouldn't be surprised if there ever existed a more satanic and dark prototype of this "game".
Notice how i put in quotes constantly "game", because is one of those few ones that i couldnt even classify as such. Yeah, some ones like Big Rigs or ET were a disaster in terms of programming but at least they had some kind of gameplay and they clearly had more effort than this. Literally they put more effort in the presentation than in the game code.
I respect if someone believes in Tarot and all of that kind of things, though i think even a believer would stay far away from this. Like just stop fooling around with Taboo The Sixth Sense and get a real oracle!
Taboo has to be one of those things that even within its self-imposed limits is very poor. There were quite a few Tarot simulators even at that time, it was not something new, but one would hope that at least some entertainment factor the "game" would provide (some minigame, scoring system or something) but there is nothing. It's writing your question, waiting to read the cards and that's it, and of course the fortune numbers that to this day I still don't understand how it works.
I have to admit that this "game" does a couple of things pretty well, at least everything related to presentation. Even today it continues to give off a certain "bad aura", and although Taboo is not a horror game by any means, I must admit that the fairly well detailed sprites with that black background and the music accompany very well that relatively suspenseful aesthetic that it tries to achieve. . And guess who composed the music? David Wise. Yeah, David damn Wise. For those who don't know, he is one of the most famous composers in the entire video game industry, and although at this time he and Rare (I suppose another reason why this game caught my attention lately) were not even half as famous, I must say that David Wise's talent is evident here. Just like all the religious references and my god... it's surprising that Nintendo hasn't complained or maybe they reached an agreement and censored it a little. I wouldn't be surprised if there ever existed a more satanic and dark prototype of this "game".
Notice how i put in quotes constantly "game", because is one of those few ones that i couldnt even classify as such. Yeah, some ones like Big Rigs or ET were a disaster in terms of programming but at least they had some kind of gameplay and they clearly had more effort than this. Literally they put more effort in the presentation than in the game code.
I respect if someone believes in Tarot and all of that kind of things, though i think even a believer would stay far away from this. Like just stop fooling around with Taboo The Sixth Sense and get a real oracle!
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- sebastianali123
- Oct 31, 2023
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