Bouncers
Basketball meets Smash BrosGenre: sports - basketball
Publisher: Sega
Year: 1994
System: Sega CD
Gameplay Score: 0
Gameplay Notes:
Where to begin? This is ostensibly a one-on-one basketball game, but you are the ball and you can't jump high enough to score yourself. Instead you must bounce off of the other anthropomorphic basketball opponent to bounce high enough to get through the hoop. It's as dumb as it sounds, as doesn't play much better. The controls are impossibly slippery and laggy. After jumping you bounce a couple of times before coming to a stopand the hitbox for bouncing off the other guy is tiny and always moving. Powerups appear to award shoes that give special abilities or balls which give you points. Like any basketaball game, a basket is worth two points, or three if you jumped from behind the midpoint of the court. Oh and the court is on a single screen with no scrolling. This oddity is not worth playing.
Level Design Score: 2
Level Design Notes:
There are a handful of courts. The differences are cosmetic and each has a distinct theme, like underwater, ancient Greece, or a haunted house. These are cute but again, cosmetic. The only reason this isn't a one is because you can configure the number of powerups, the length of quarters, and so on.
Theme Score: 1
Theme Notes:
I'm so glad this era is over. This game goes hard with an edgy but cartoony style. Each basketball is a caricature of an ethnicity or sub-culture, and they're pure cringe. The courts are more creative, but this is not a game you should not share with a friend.
Art Style Score: 1
Art Style Notes:
There's nothing wrong with the pixel art, but the art style is wrong in every conceivable way. Prerendered style + hideous character design + no effects. Yuck. At least the backgrounds are pretty, even if they feature no animation.
Audio Score: 0
Audio Notes:
Horrible, atrocious, no-good, very bad music plus some of the worst sound effects I can remember.
Overall Score: 13
Review ID: 12013
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