Sunday, September 21, 2025

Loadstar - The Legend of Tully Bodine for Sega CD


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Loadstar - The Legend of Tully Bodine

There's only one man who would DARE give me the raspberry


Genre: shooter - gallery

Publisher: Rocket Science Games

Year: 1994

System: Sega CD


Gameplay Score: 0

Gameplay Notes:

It's an on-rails shooter where you can't shoot anything. Joy. The first 15 minutes was a long video intro. It went so long that I thought maybe this was just a movie. But no, it eventually cut to a barely interactive train race scene.


Level Design Score: 0

Level Design Notes:

Imagine the trench run from Star Wars, but driving a maglev train with trash cans appearing every second to crash into you. I only shot down about 10% of these buggers. Eventually they wore down my ship and caused me to crash. A voiceover told me to drive to a particular location on my map, but I don't see a map and thus I have no idea what I was trying to accomplish.


Theme Score: 0

Theme Notes:

The cheesiest, dumbest sci-fi setting I've ever seen. Essentially you're a space trucker (get it? Load-star) with a dumbfetch quest thrust upon you and your ragtag posse of space rednecks. Spaceballs this ain't.


Art Style Score: 2

Art Style Notes:

Some of the better FMV on the Sega CD. It still looks bad but the framerate is good.


Audio Score: 2

Audio Notes:

Pew pew sound effects. Nothing offensive, but the constantly recycled voice samples get old quick.


Overall Score: 8

Review ID: 12063



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