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Genre: action - beat em up

Publisher: Fox

Year: 1994

System: SNES

Gameplay Score: 1

Gameplay Notes:

Beat em up section plays alright. There are two attack - punch and kick. Animations are randomly played on the third hit. Enemies go down quickly. Only a few enemy models. Basically your just fighting the foot clan. Movement is haltimg. There's lag between pressing the d-pad and moving so you can't easily make corrections in your placement. It's best to just keep mashing and wait for enemies to come to you rather than making a small correction. The 2D platforming sections are awful. They play like a THQ licensed games with horribly imprecise, laggy inputs. Just a jarring experience to switch between a decent brawler and a horrible platformer.

Level Design Score: 2

Level Design Notes:

Props for variety, but it's all pretty bad. The brawler levels are pretty standard and they drag on way too long with seemingly endless waves of enemies. Basically you run to a spot and then fight bad guys for about 4 mins and then repeat until the level ends without even a boss. The platforming levels can't end quickly enough as they are horrible projectile avoidance simulators like so many of the THQ games.

Theme Score: 2

Theme Notes:

I have no nostalgia for the show although I do remember commercials about it. As near as I can tell from this game it's a weird mix of tropes from TMNT, Batman mythos, and Earthworm Jim. Ultimately it's a licensed title from a show I don't remember. Meh

Art Style Score: 3

Art Style Notes:

Nauseating first level atop a speeding bus. The scrolling of the background is fast but it's the bouncing of the bus that makes me sick to my stomach. The switch to a 2D platforming section is jarring. Animation is horrible and the character model looks different enough that it looks like two separate games.

Audio Score: 2

Audio Notes:

Music is okay. I guess. It's sort of cinematic but very repetitive. It builds tension but just never lets it go. I wound up muting it.

Overall Score: 32

Review ID: 627