Sprinting requires tapping the D Pad twice in a direction and can be hard to quickly stop, and your fireman’s rather rough jump can be used to clear gaps but might not execute properly, especially if you’re trying to execute a running jump. When you enter a burning building, your firefighter controls in a somewhat awkward manner. While the sometimes absurd writing is definitely what stands out about The Ignition Factor, the firefighting gameplay is played completely straight but has its ups and downs. translation team, partly from an attempt to appeal to gaming magazines with shout outs to make up for the lack of a marketing budget, and partly just generally having fun filling in script gaps. Positron’s interview with the translator Joe Sislow is an interesting look at how this absurd twist came together partly because of bad communication between the Japanese creators and the U.S. There are even rants directed at the game’s design and the development company behind the game Jaleco. You might be rescuing trapped people in a building only for one of them to stand up and recommend a gaming magazine.
One mission might have everyone speaking functionally and only discussing the matter at hand, then another will have an older fireman balk at the cliche script as everyone urges him to stop talking so they can finish the scene. This seemingly random out of place line actually shifts the game into a weird tonal mix where you can never tell if The Ignition Factor is going to be completely serious or crack goofy meta jokes. The vaguest hint of drama appears when one firefighter is hurt on a mission, but this is shoved aside unceremoniously when the story starts to turn in a very unexpected direction when a new rookie fireman is introduced with line “Yes, that’s him. At first everything seems to be going for raw realism, characters only speaking about the task at hand and discussing what needs to be done. While you only play as one of the firefighters on the force, your teammates give you mission briefings and appear in levels to refill your supplies or give pointers. The Ignition Factor is structured in a way where you receive a small set of missions you can tackle in whichever order you please, completion of all the available tasks causing the next set of missions to appear. The Ignition Factor does have more ideas it explores than just these basics, but when it comes to the story, what at first appears to be an incredibly grounded procession of firefighting missions starts taking some wild turns that make this game unusually fascinating.
You push into burning buildings, put out blazes, save people and valuables, and get out before its too dangerous to stick around. The Ignition Factor is a top-down firefighting video game for the Super Nintendo, and with those words you likely already have a good idea of what the game might be like.
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