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So here is another PS1 game that people say is awful but I don't find that bad, except the story. So the story is only told in the manual of the game, and if you don't have that you won't know anything because the game doesn't tell you anything. So the story of the game is that some evil time traveling time lord named Kronon wants to steal a time machine from some scientist guy who is Rascal's father so he could go back to the past and take over the world... this story makes no sense because if he can teleport back in time, just do it, you don't need a time machine, and he teleported to the scientist's lab to kidnap him, and the manual doesn't say he can't go back by himself.

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Gameplay/Controls

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Now the gameplay is way to similar to Bubsy 3D's, but not as stiff, moving around has the same tank controls as Bubsy but it's more loose, turn left and right and move forward and back, but the good thing is you can use the analog stick in this game unlike Bubsy and I suggest you use the analog stick instead of the D-Pad or you will not get anywhere. X button jumps and pressing it again will do a ground pound, just like in Croc, the square button shoots your bubble gun, yes a bubble gun, which i don't understand at all, people who reviewed this game say the gun does nothing, it's not that is does nothing it just takes forever to kill enemies in the game. See there are 3 ways of attacking in the game, jump on them, ground pound, and the gun. You can upgrade the gun finding these pickups in the level, red bubbles are long-range homing bubbles, green bubbles are long range, and blue ones are short range, since you run out of ammo so quick in this game it's pretty much useless. Now time for gameplay, it's a 3-D platformer going around collecting stuff, now since the game tells you nothing, i have to explain it. In each world there are 3 stages that are timed based like past present future. The objective of each level is to find 6 pieces of a golden hourglass. These pieces are either scattered in the level or with an enemy, now before i forget lets talk about the enemies, there are the big enemies that take so many bubbles wasting ammo, and the little enemy's that you can jump on dropping health and ammo, but they can sometimes respawn on you dying instantly, the big enemies don't respawn though, not like it matters cause there are only like 3-6 in a level. The level design is pretty cool, like the first level being a castle stage in the past, and going back into the stage after you beat it sends you to the future stage that turns it into a museum, also like the pirate ship turning into a sunken ship, now the future stages you gotta fight some bosses, excuse me "boss", it's the same guy everytime, Kronon, he's pretty easy just run around turn and shoot, he attacks with fire throwing hourglasses and throwing gyroscopes? Who throws gyroscopes?! Whatever, the annoying thing about the stages is the awful camera, since the camera is solid it gets stuck on walls all the time. I forgot to mention that in my Bubsy 3-D review, anytime you turn near a wall the camera will get glued to it and won't come unstuck until you move away. Another complaint in the game is the awful platforming, because of the bad camera and jump, the jump kinda sucks because you can't turn whiule jumping forward, kinda like the mach speed jumping in Sonic 06. So make sure your jumps are perfect or you will fall, and if your running and want to take a quick turn before falling in lava or something, make sure you stop all the way because if you don't, Rascal will slide of and die, lava is your biggest enemy becuse if you fall in you're doomed. Extra lives are in the game but there are so little, there are only 2 or 3 lives in a stage, which doesn't seem bad but with the problems i said, it's like why bother. And when you lose all of your lives you get a game over, and the game doesn't auto save so you have to do it over again, you can save by going into this room with a memory card on it, so if you save with like one life left and die in a level and load up again, the lives don't reset. There's also swimming in the game for only like 3 levels, they aren't to bad, exept the air meter which is annoying to fill if you suck at swimming. Last thing are these annoying slides. Sometimes slides are in levels to either advance ahead or a quicker way down, there are like 6 and you only need to use 4 because you can back track which is easier, because on the slide there are rocks and if you hit them you lose so much health, but the slides are to dark to see on and there are to many turns to see anything.

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Graphics/Sound

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The graphics and sound are amazing, yeah with a game that i described you think it would look and sound bad but it doesn't, everything is nicely detailed and fit the environment, the music does the same except the mayan and castle stages. The sound effect's aren't to great though, when you get hit he sounds like a girl that saw a spider, and enemies make the same grunt and squeak noises.

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Final Verdict

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This game isn't as bad as everyone says it is, well to me anyway, the graphics and sound are great, the level design is cool. The only bad things are the camera, controls, and the game not telling you anything or what to do.

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The story of Bubsy 3D is so stupid you think it was made by a 3 year old, ok so the story is the Woolies from the first game wanting to kidnap Bubsy and keep them on their planet so he doesn't stop the Woolies from taking the yarn from Earth, and the Woolies think that Bubsy will take rockets and atoms found on their planet to go back to Earth, and the Woolies call the rockets and atoms useless and abundent resources on thier planet which is dumb because they kidnapped Bubsy in a rocket powered by atoms. The Woolies make the bad guy from the PS1 Game Rascal seem smart.

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Controls and Gameplay

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First the controls and oh my gosh they are awful! To really understand what i'm saying you need to play it for yourself, first up walking, see Bubsy doesn't walk around normally like Mario in Super Mario 64 or Crash Bandicoot, instead he moves like a tank. Bubsy can only move straight forward and straight back, you can turn with left and right but it's so slow, if you run and turn you barely turn, maybe at like a 10 degree angle. Next up is jumping, you jump with the X button, everytime you jump the camera looks at the ground, and when you try to jump on enemies they are hard to land on because the hit detection is poor. You can hop side to side with L2 and R2 but i never use it because it works when it feels like it. You can glide with the triangle button, but they glide is awful to, when you glide you press triangle and you a small jump and start to glide but you fall so heavy you get no distance. You can crouch with the O button, i used it once, on a moving platform avoiding projectiles. Now time for the game play, the gameplay is like any other platformer, jump and collect stuff, the collectables consit of atoms and rockets, atoms are annoying to get, since the hit detection is garbege it's hard to get them, every 50 you get, you get another hitpoint, get 100 get an extra life, only Bubsy game to do that and it's the last one. There are power ups to, they are all worthless except the lighting bolt and double life up, lighting bolt you're invincable and double life is helpful. Enemies consist of the woolies, jump on their head and they die, simple, most annoying enemy are these see through snakes that you can't kill, and everytime you get hit you are stunned for 5 seconds, so if you don't get out fast enough they'll combo you, another annoying enemy is the starfish and dogfish, they come out of the bad camera in the water levels and eat you, oh yeah water levels, i'll to that in a bit. With the platformeing stages, sometimes jumping on a platform is hard to do because you can only move the camera left and right and down, so you can't see how far the platforms are until you leap. The bosses in the game are stupid, every boss you jump on there head, except the last one where you shoot them with atoms. Oh yeah i forgot about shooting atoms, walk up to and atom and hold spuare and realse when you want to shoot it, but if you hold it for to long it will backfire and you'll take a hit, but you are immune to any attacks. Now the water levels, the water levels aren't as bad as the platforming levels, yes i said that. the controls are a lot better in the water, press X to go down and O to go up. you do need to collect air though. The rockets found inside the levels are pointless to get, it depends on the ending, i like the bad ending because Bubsy gets stranded in space, the good ending is Bubsy gets stuck in prehistoric times. No other game play i can think of except multiplayer, which is try to get more points then your friend. Saving in the game is awkward, either you can use a password or use a memory card, password is pointless because if you can use a memory card, why have a password?

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Graphics and Music

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The graphics are abysmal, they look like the pre-alpha version of game grphics, the ground has a checkerboard pattern with little to no textures at all, bubsy is the best model in the game, and that's saying much. The music is nothing good, it sounds like a cat ran across a bunch of instruments with an alien, which sounds like chip tunes, bumblebees and chatter noises. only like 3 decent tracks are in the game.

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Final Verdict

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This is the worst game i've ever played, worst than Mindjack, Drake of the 99 Dragons, Sonic 06, Action 52, and Superman 64 combined. My advice is to stay away from this game forever, the worst part is, i got this game for $10.

The story is about some wizard guy that mixes two potions wrong and everything goes haywire, the wizard turns into stone, the crystals keeping the kingdom colorful are gone and one of his magical gloves turn evil named Cross-Stitch, and you are the nice glove named Glover.

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Gameplay:

The gameplay is a platformer, you can control Glover with or without his ball, controlling Glover by himself is fine, you can double jump, ground pound, and use a cartwheel, the weird thing is the cartwheel is not in the PS1 version which i own. Controlling Glover with the ball is a bit annoying sometimes, escpically when he slides around everywhere, you can dribble the ball but it's delayed a bit, you can throw the ball which throws it up high but not reach, you can slap it with gets a better reach but no height. You can transform your ball to, one is a Bowling ball which is use to break glass or walls, it can sink in water but you can't dribble it, even though in the PS1 version you can... i don't get it. You can also turn it into a marble, it moves faster than the bowling ball, you can dribble it and it can sink, it's also used to put on magnets to activate switches. You can also turn it into one of the cyrstals, you can use it to collecting these ticket things along the ground for double points, but if you dribble or throw the cyrstal it will break and you lose a life. Speaking of those tickets you can find collectables around the worlds. One of the items are tickets, there's usually 80 in each world, collect 80 to get an extra life. There are also extra lives everywhere since the platforming is hard to do, well with the ball, the ball is annoying to get across platforms because the ball might bounce around everywhere so you want to be careful. Also the camera sucks, well in the PS1 version at least, the camera can get stuck on some areas and it's annoying to turn it around fully, escpically in the haunted house stages where there are walls everywhere. There are 6 worlds in the game, the boring ones being Atlantis and Pirates, there just water stages. The most annoying one is the Cavman stage, the first stage is snowy and there is a slope in the middle of the stage where snowballs roll down and if you get stuck in it you will fly back or get send all the way back to the bottom. And theres also lava in the stage which kills you and your ball instantly. My favorite level though is the space level which is the last level, i liked it because it was the easyiest and there was no gravity so i can jump super high. The bosses in this game are easy or hard, easier ones being a clown or the harder ones being the frankstein monster, god i hate that boss, no matter what version it's in it's so annoying, you have to push platforms down with your ground pound but also avoiding attacks and protecting you ball. There are also some powerups in the game to, one makes Glover super big, strong, and fast. One where he's a helicopter but freakin hard to control, and sticky shoes which makes him walk on ceilings. There are other ones but there not super good.

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Graphics:

The graphics look great, even though Glover doesn't look like a glove because he only have 4 fingers. The stages look nice and fit everything well, except the draw distance is not that good, but it's not a problem like 98% of the time.

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Sound/Music:

The music in this game is great, nothing sounds to annoying or to loud, everything is nice and calm. The sound effects are find to consisting of cartoon sound effects, but Glover sounds weird when he does his first jump, he sounds like he's in pain or something when he jumps.

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Final Verdict:

Glover is a good game with great graphics, great music, good controls, and ok story. The downsides were the ball was annoying to control sometimes and the camera didn't help to much.

The story is about D.K and Diddy Kong's banana horde has been stolen by King K. Rool, and it's their job to get it back.

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Gameplay:

The game is a side scrolling platformer, you can play as Diddy or D.K, i like playing as Diddy because he is a lot faster, you can jump with B, run by clicking Y and roll by clicking A, you can also pick up barrels and boxes with A. click X to swap characters. You will be fighting enemies called kritters, some will walk back and forth, some will jump, some will walk and jump. You only have 2 hits but your in luck because there are barrels that say D.K on it so you can back one of the kongs you lost. You can swing on vines and climb up trees to find collectables. The collectables consist of bananas, if you get 100 you get an extra life. A D.K ballon which gives you an extra life, and gold statues that if you collect 3 of the same you play as another animal to collect a ton of bananas. Oh yeah you can also ride animals in this game, the first one is a rhino that charges through enemies and can break through breakable walls, another one is an ostrich which runs really fast and jumps high, and one is a swordfish which you ride underwater, and it works perfectly because swimming under water is perfect, the controls work great and riding on the swordfish, you can atually fight off the enemies. The levels consist of Jungle, Temples, Underground Mines and in the water. The jungle areas are basic platform levels with vines to swing on and annoying wasp enemies, you cant kill the wasp enemies without a barrel. The temples have giant wheels that chase you around and try to squish you, i would use Diddy to run away from them quickly. The Mines are the worst, most of the mine stages suck, some make you ride on a minecart where you need perfect accuracy for jumps. And the other mine levels are dark trying to avoid light changing kritters that are annoying to dodge. The water levels are actually great, the controls underwater aren't swaped, and if you think you're going slow, you can ride the swordfish to get a boost, the only thing i don't like are the octopus enemies which don't die. A long the map screen yyou will find different characters like Cranky Kong, who will give you ints and tips, Candy Kong, who saves your game. And Funky Kong that helps you travel to other map screens. The game can get unfair at some times where enemies pop out of no where and sorta impossible jumps. An easy way to get a good jump is get a running start by rolling and keeping holding it down. You can also launch out of cannons when you go into one, some are automatic. Just don't over shoot or under shoot the cannons.

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Graphics:

The graphics are awesome, it looks like a 2.5D type game, The colors fit the environment that there in, and no graphic errors or anything that i could find.

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Sound/Music:

The music is well orchastrated, with the catchy tune of Kongo Jungle and the calm tune of the underwater stages. The sound effects aren't bad either, except what the Kritters make when they die, it sounds so weird, like a boing got crushed. The monkey sound affects and other animal sound effect are well done.

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Final Verdict:

D.K country was a well recieved game with great graphics, great music, great controls, and great atmosphere. The only downside is that it can be unfair at time with bottomless pits and random spawning enemies.

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The story is about Pac-Man doing chores for his wife, yes that's the story, or at least what i gathered.

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Gameplay:

The gameplay is not like the original Pac-Man, it's more of a point and click. You control Pac-Man and no wait, you don't control Pac-Man, you control a cursor on a screen which is a slingshot. Shoot the slingshot at something and Pac-Man will go towards it and examine it, only problem is he won't listen sometimes, it's either he's being to proud of himself or to depressed to listen to you, the more depressed the less he listens to you. Plus Pac-Man is a real jerk in this game, he attacks a farmer and is mean to a construction worker and tips him over, and when he's to proud of himself, he walks along and become unlikable from that point on. There are only four levels in the game, but each level takes forever to go through if Pac-Man is to depressed, to make him not depressed to happy stuff like pet his dog, or eat something, but it's hard to do because you have to click on the food and if he's to depressed he will ignore you and not pick up the food, so it's impossible to make him happy. I coulden't get pass the first level because Pac-Man never listens, even if he is happy. The first mission you have to get a gift for your baby, but your not told where to go or what to do, you get a 5 second explanation on where to go and boom kicked out to go find something, RAAAAGGGGGE! I hate this game so much!

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Graphics:

The graphics look ok, the animations on Pac-Man's face are fun to watch until you realize he's a jerk, but i can't help to feel that Pac-Man and his family are out of place in this world. Everyone else around is like a real person or a real animal. Nothing seems in place, kinda like Sonic 2006's art design. But i guess for what it looks like, it's ok.

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Music/Sound:

Personally, i do not like the music, the whistling in some of the tracks are annoying and i don't think they fit, for this type of game, the music sounds like someone is in a chore montage, oh wait Pac-Man is in a chore montage through the whole game, except it's slow. The sounds are basic wa wa noises and not very impressive, well at least that's what i think, nothing sounds like Pac-Man sounds at all, even Pac-Man world had the original sound effects, so why can't this game?

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Final Verdict:

This game isn't that good, some people say it's a underrated game judged harshly, some say it's awesome, i say it sucks, with bad controls, or at least trying to control Pac-Man annoying music, somewhat ok graphics and really boring gameplay, no one should play this game if their bored, unless for nostagic purposes.

The story is about a Bobcat named Bubsy that is trying to fight off an alien race called the Woolies from taking all of the yarn on Earth.

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Gameplay:

The gameplay is a standard platformer, the controls... are stupid. A,B,X,Y all jump, no joke, click the jump button again to glide, yes a bobcat can glide, if you can describe how that works, imform me please i kinda want to know my self. The enemies you fight are the Wooly aliens that sneeze on you, also other stuff like gumball machines, water, cars, plates, roller coasters, etc. In order to kill the enemies you need to jump on their head but i swear everytime you do that you shift slightly to the right, it also happens when you go on a spring. You can run really fast like Sonic but if you hit something you die in one hit ALWAYS! For something copying Sonic they didn't get anything right, you can collect yarn balls which are like rings in sonic but they do nothing except a good high score. You start the game with 9 lives, get it he's a cat huh huh, anyways you will use like 5 for the first level. There are a lot of enemies everywhere, and since you run so fast you can't see whats ahead because the screen is to close up, also for a character that runs fast, the level desgin is bad for that, the levels are built like Mario stages. Other collectables you can find are t-shirts with a number on it, there extra lives. you can get other powerups like invisability and an extra hit. When jumping from platform to platform better not drop to far or else you will die, yes there is fall damage in this game, who came up with that? I've never seen any 2-d side scroller with fall damage. If you glide you won't die, but that still doesn't change the fact that is the dumbest thing ever programed in a platformer. There are 15 levels in this game but i only got to level 5 because the game gets unfair later. Each section has 2 levels then a boss, there are checkpoints throughout the stage which are giant !-marks. but since everything kills you in one hit and it's hard to see them, it will take you forever. I can talk about some parts from the sencond section, it's circus themed with creepy pickle people. There are roller coasters you can ride one but if it leads of the edge you will die. Also all the circus stands try to kill you will eggs and darts. The wooly enemies change at least to clowns and painters. Still trying to do one level of this game is impossible without dying at least once.

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Graphics:

The graphics... are the only thing good in this game, i actually mean it, everything is nice and colorful and the animations for the enemies and Bubsy's animation are stellar. The only graphic complaint i have is the back round. Jumping on a spring sends you up high and all the platformers around vanish but the backround doesn't move at all.

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Music/Sound:

The music isn't that good but it gets the job done i guess, it's just a bunch of boing sounds. The sound effects are cartoony with some sounds like a pie splat, sneeze effect, and car engines. There is also voice acting for Bubsy, it's annoying because he talks at the start of the level, it's not as annoying as Bubsy 3D's voice acting.

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Final Verdict:

Bubsy 1 is a decent game, with meh controls, good graphics, tolerable music, and weird story.

Pac-man doesn't have a story, just eating ghosts.

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Gameplay:

The gameplay plays like the original Pac-Man, go around collecting Tic-Tacs and eating ghosts, the way to eat ghosts is getting the super Tic-Tac which glows. There are suppose to be 4 ghosts that chase after you but i could only see 2 of them. Honestly there is nothing left to say, it's a basic Pac-Man game. The controls are fine, you move around with the joystick and eat the Tic-Tacs through a maze like structure. The difficulty is sorta hard, the original game was hard because there are more enemies to avoid and the maze changes. The mazes in this game don't change much, they just have a differnet backround color.

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Graphics:

The graphics a primitative, it doesn't look like Pac-Man but it is atari after all, you can tell what everything is, the only annoying graphic thing is the ghost, they just flicker and it's annoying to concentrate.

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Music/Sound:

The music is only present when you start and when you end. The sound effects don't sound like a Pac-Man game, the original sounds like a wakka sound and this one is more of a boing sound.

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Final Verdict:

The game is not as bad as people say it is. The gameplay is good, graphics are decent, sound is annoying, the difficulty is standard.

The story is about some guy named Ralf trying to get to a village called Ikari so the Blue Ninja people don't destroy it.

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Gameplay:

The gameplay is a scrolling shooter, press A to shoot your gun and B to throw gernades, the problem with these weapons they don't go very far, the gernade i can understand but the gun goes like 3 feet in front of you, but the enemy projectiles go all the way across the screen. Since you die in one hit it will be very hard to beat the first level,but the code ABBA will bring you back, get used to it. The enemies considt of these blue ninjas that shoot you, tanks, and pink ninjas that expload. You can also get a tank yourself, but it only lasts for 15 seconds before it exploads when it runs out of gas... it exploads when it runs out of gas... how does that even work. By the way your character walks so slow. A snail can probably move faster, and the way the screen moves is when you move up, and using ABBA brings you back to the bottom of the screen, so if the screen didn't move, you made no progress. Also these levels go on forever, theres only four levels and they go for like 10 minutes, sure you get bosses in between like tanks but the level still goes. Also in level 3 you can get a helicopter but it's still slow and will run out if you're hit to much. also going back down doesn't move the screen, so if you got stuck in a dead end you have to restart the level or the whole game. By the way this game is hard, like really hard. since you move so slow and your weapons have no reach you will die, the enemies move so fast to and take a lot of hits to defeat. There is a 2 player option to get a little help but it's still going to be hard and tedious.

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Graphics:

The raphics look ok but some of the animations get cut like the explosion where pi ces of it don't appear. Your main character looks like Rambo, it was based on it, but the enemys wear pink and blue and the tanks you drive are pink, great camoflauge right there.

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Music/Sound:

The music is annoying because it's the same throughout the whole game and doesn't change, it gets annoying after 5 minutes, kinda like Bubble Bobbles music. the sound is basic, theres only like 5 sound effects, shooting, throwing a gernade, explosion, item get, and death.

The music and sound are the weakest parts in the whole game and shoulden't be listen to much or you will be annoyed.

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Final Verdict:

This game is ok at best with ok controls except walking takes forever, the music and sound is annoying after 5 minutes, the levels are to long, and the story is not anything to special. It's one of those games you play once in your life time.

Well it's Mario kart, there is no story

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Gameplay:

The game play is simple with acceleration working well, drifting and using items. You accelrate by pressing the B button (it's been awhile since i played so it might no be right). You use items with the Y button, these items consist of a green shell witch goes anywhere, a red shell witch homes in on an enemy, the star witch gives you invincablity, and the blue shell witch hits the person in first place. There are 8 players to play as that include Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, Koopa, Yoshi, Bowser, and D.K. Each character has there own stats like Toad being a lightweight and going fast and Bowser being a heavyweight and going slow. When you start a race you have to go around it 3 times, which is fine but only half of the screen shows the race and the other half shows the map, i personally think this is annoying, i wish there was just a small map in the corner like in the GBA version or Gamecube, There are 4 cups with 4 races inside, the first one usually having the easy tracks mostly starting with Luigi's Circuit, and then to the harder ones like Rainbow Road with no guard rails and thwomps everywhere. I should mention the A.I, the A.I is weird in this game, they always get the same item everytime like Luigi getting the star, the A.I isn't rubber band like in MK64. While racing you will find coins along the ground to, collecting these coins gives you a lot more speed than normal, get 10 and you will go fast. There's a bunch of hazords and obstacles like penguins that slide along the ground, lava which burns you, and ramps that give you access to a secret area, but you probably want the mushroom item to give you more speed.

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Graphics:

The graphics look great for an early SNES games with no sprite flickering and vibrant colors for the characters, except D.K because he's wearing a shirt instead of his tie for some reason. All the levels look nice like Bowser's Castle looking like a castle and filled with lava and spikeballs. The only annoying one is rainbow road because i can't focus on the road well because there are to many colors.

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Sound/Music

The music sounds great, my favorite one being the Bowser Castle theme, my least favorite being the chocolate road because the track is annoying to go through with dirt roads to slow you down and bumps, and the music sounds lame to. The sound is great for the car engines, the 3..2..1.. GO! and the items sound find except the shells, they make annoying whooshing sounds and when a red shell is behind me i just want it to hit so i don't have to hear it.

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Final Verdict:

This game is good with respondable controls, great music, ok sounds and great tracks, except rainbow road. The downsides are the pointless map at the bottom and the A.I only using one item every race their in.

Ok this story is so weird i don't even want to say it, some unclothed guy sits on a building shooting his cream down a building where 2 unclothed women are there catching it in there mouth... oh god i'm gonna barf... BLEK!

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Gameplay:

The gameplay is basic, you move the women around and you catch the cream the guy squirts out and try to get it in the womens mouth, if you miss 3 you lose and start over. you move left and right trying to catch the cream, this game is so disturbing i don't want to talk about anymore but i have to, but there's nothing else to the gameplay but that.

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Graphics:

The graphics look bad, escpically when the guy on the roofs "gun" is bigger than his body and has no legs, the models are i guess ok for the women on the bottom.

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Music/Sound:

The music is non existant in most of the game, the sound effects are ear rencthingly bad, it sounds like an 8-bit bird got crushed and filled with helium.

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Final Verdict:

This game is terrible and disgusting, no one should play this game ever in a million years!

The story is about Dr. Wily wanted to get revenge on Mega Man for beating him in the last game and made 8 new robot masters to try and stop him, so it's up to mega man to stop him and save his family, or Dr. Light.

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Gameplay:

The gameplay is like the first, mega man jumps and he shoots but the controls are a lot smoother in this game than the first, Mega Man doesn't slide around as much like he did in the first game and he's no slow going up ladders. The mega Buster witch is Mega Man first weapon when you push the B button works well and responds well, jumping is the same but you don't slide everywhere when landing, you still drop like a rock though. Now the new 8 robot masters, first up is Bubble Man with a very trippy backround, the backround hurts my eyes a bit but not painfully bad, the first enemy you face is a frog that shoots mini frogs that hop on you. But the worst part about the stage is the underwater section when spikey balls are everywhere and there annoying to dodge carefully because jumping in the water makes you jump higher, so don't jump to high. Bubble Man just shoots bubbles at you, the ability you get after beating him is the bubble shooter witch shoots bubbles and travels along the ground. Air Man's stage has platforms that look like a Head with enemies and drills, plus clouds are in the way of some platforms make screw you over. Air Man shoots mini tornados at you witch are sorta annoying to dodge and they blow you back to, the ability you get when you beat him is a tornado witch shoots straight and then goes up. Quick Man's stage is the worst stage in my opinion, if you have Flash man's ability it shoulden't be to bad, but the worst part is during the middle of the stage where giant fast moving rectangle things kill you in one hit so if you mess up you're done, Quick man is annoying to hit because he moves to fast, get Flash Man's ability then take him down with the mega buster. The ability you get is a quick boomerang witch doesn't have good range but a fast attack. Heat Man's stage has enemies that fall from the sky and lava that kills you instantly, the worst part is the disapearing platforms witch you need great timing in order to not fail, but if you have item 2 it shoulden't be bad... what is this item #2? You get items 1-3 beating certain robot masters, item one is a platform the floats in the air for 5 seconds, item two is a hover board that flies straight until you run out of ammo for it, and item 3 is a platform that move up and down on walls for 7 seconds. Anyway heat man is annoying if you suck at dodging like me. But beating him gives you a charge fire beam witch i never use because it takes forever to charge. Wood Man's stage is pretty harmless, except for the cats that shoot fire at you. Wood Man shoots leaves at you and leaves fall from the ceiling and hurt you, leaves of death people. When you beat him you get a leaf shield witch protects you from enemies and projectiles until you move, i use it one a moving platform in the Wily stages. Metal Man's stage has conveyor belts that has differnet directions, Metal Man throws blades at you witch a pretty easy to dodge and you get the best ability when you beat him. You get the metal blade that shoots in 8 directions and has a ton of ammo. Flash Man's stage has platforms that make you slide but nothing to bad except these mechs that hop around and shoot you. Flash Man is the easist boss ever, hitting him with the metal blade 5 times takes him down, his ability freezes the stage for 10 seconds to get some annoying parts like Quick Man. Ugh there's more x wheeze x, Crash Man's stage is pretty forgettable, i don't even remember the stage that well, all i remember is a bunch of ladders and birds. Crash Man shoots bombs at you that go off quickly, but if you use Air Man's ability it shoulden't be to hard, the ability you get is the crash bomber which lashes to walls and exploads. I wont talk about the Wily stages since it's sorta spoilerish.

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Graphics:

The graphics look great, everything is colorful and vibrant, except with the sprite flickering and the waterfall and lava graphics. The animation for characters look good, not great, they seem a little to choppy in some areas like Heat Man's stage.

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Music/Sound:

The music is great, everything fits great in every stage, the title theme is great, Wily stage 1-2 is awesome, you just need to listen to it to know it's great. The sounds fit every attack and jump, the metal blades sound like blades being thrown, fire sounds like fire, and water sounds like water.

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Final Verdict:

This game is great with great music, ok level design, good power ups, and a good story.