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South Park - Chef\'s Luv Shack
07-30-14 11:04 AM
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Cheesy but fun with friends.
I'm sure you're all familiar with Mario Party and it's constant sequels. Mario Party is a game enjoyed by many people. Fun mini games, good soundtrack, good controls, big arguments, violent bashing each other with your controllers until both of you bleed, long trip to the hospital, you basically get the idea. Many developers have tried to conquer the 4 player party game giant, but fail to succeed, despite some of them being quite fun. South Park: Chef's Love Shack is one of them. Does it succeed? No, but it's fun.
This party game has no real story. Chef is holding a game show for hot girls, only to be ruined by the iconic 4 boys appearing instead. Stan, Kyle, Eric and Kenny. So they start the game anyway. Party games never really have a story, and to everyone's surprise, Mario Party has no real story either. Ironically, Sonic Shuffle (Mario Party's biggest rival) had an actual story.
The game is very simple. You and friends get given questions to answer. You have to know quite a bit in order to answer correctly. Unfortunately, if you're like me then you will have to guess, since quite a lot of the questions and jokes are about stuff that today's gamers would not get or understand, making this game really hard to age.
Onto the mini games now. The games are chosen when a round of questions has finished. It's selected randomly, just like in Mario Party. Unfortunately you choose to play the mini game(s) you like at any time. The only mode in this game is main game itself which is the game show. The games have you skiing down an avalanche, skydiving whilst avoiding everything in sight, running from a herd of cows, shooting a**holes in space, spanking a monkey's a**, etc. They try to have the humour of the show whilst throwing in a few references and jokes from the show itself.
Speaking of the show itself, the artwork of this game replicates the show perfectly. They... Read the rest of this Review
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Sonic R
07-29-14 11:23 AM
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Can you feel your sanity?
Nowadays, you probably see Sonic being treated like a toothpick by Sega. Bad camera angles, annoying/useless characters, long loading screens and overused content to try and keep the Classic fandom alive. The only reason why Sonic is still is still a thing is nostalgia and Sonic Colours/Generations. Don't get me wrong, I love Sonic. Heck, I even thought the hedgehog's recent outing (Sonic Lost World) was ok, and critics hated it!
Anyway, going onto the topic of Sonic R, the game was released in 1997 to compete against Mario Kart 64 and upcoming Diddy Kong Racing and Crash Team Racing. Published by Sega, developed by Traveller's Tales (People behind Sonic 3D Blast and Lego games) with the help of Sonic Team comes a racing game for the Sega Saturn and PC (and to be re-released for Sonic Gems Collection), Sonic R. Does it live up to the game's hype from 1997? Not quite.
After the cancellation of Sonic Xtreme, the Sega Saturn had no 3D Sonic game on it. Sonic Team tried their best to keep their fans happy with Sonic in Christmas Nights, Sonic Jam's Sonic World and the closest thing to 3D Saturn Sonic game, Sonic R. Unfortunately, fans had to be greeted with a game with slippery controls and cheesy soundtrack. Though critics loved it in 97, the critics now think opposite nowadays.
Sonic R has no story unless you were bothered to read the instruction manual, or if you were bored in the car and you had got the game. The story is simple. Sonic sees a poster about a race and decides to enter, but it turns out EggMan enters as well, so Sonic and friends race. Move over Heavy Rain! This gets story of the year! Seriously though, this didn't need a story anyway. It's a racing game.
Sonic R has about 11 characters, which is more than Mario Kart 64, but falls in trac... Read the rest of this Review
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