Guess what! it's Reviews are worth more day in the Tour de Vizzed so you get something extra from me today (I decided to save the Kelly game for the next review day because at least then the Barbie movie will be out)
Of all the toy lines from the 90s, I’m surprised that the Rescue Heroes hasn’t made a legit comeback not even a new tv series, I mean the toy line did kind of keep trying to come back but with no bite (the person behind the Have You heard A Fashion Doll Retrospective account needs to do something on the Rescue Heroes even if they aren’t a fashion doll line) however while I was doing research for this review, I found out that they have rebooted the toy line and there’s a new digital series but I don’t think the toys have made their way to Canada, which is a shame because I liked the tv series (Wendy’s voice actress is a politician now, she’s actually going to reprise her role has Rogue in X-men ‘97) especially considering that we are in a world where we need first responders more than ever
Gameplay and story: So there is a forest fire so the Rescue Heroes are brought in, however it’s not based on the episode Fire in Field 13, and only a handful of Rescue Heroes are called up, Billy Blazes, Jake Justice, Ariel Flyer, Gil Gripper and Rip…wait who’s Rip? *one google later* Rip Rockefeller…again Who? Yeah it seems that he must have started showing up when the show was rebooted as Rescue Heroes Global Response Team….Was Jack Hammer busy? So we put out fires, evacuate people, and in Ariel’s activity we do both
Graphics: Well they look more like the toys do, even though Ariel Flyers wasn’t initially part of the original line (she debuted in the first season of the Nelvana series) and to be honest I prefer how they looked in the first season than in the Global Response Team, even though it developed the characters deeper….how come only a handful of characters got developed? Gil never got development, Cliff Hanger never got development, I feel like the only reason they were there was for eye candy related reasons (yeah crushed on Gil….hard)...why do some of the designs look the same?
Soundtrack: I wish I could remember it
Addictive: Once again I came back to this for the purpose of reviewing, but I liked the show when it aired (Teletoon in Canada got to see the Global Response Team before the US did) and it was quite addictive however, remember when I did my review of Sailor-moon coin op and I had said how the new episodes had kind of turned me off? This is one of those cases, I don’t think I got to appreciate that term fully until Teletoon started adding more episodes of the Simpsons, but I guess it would depend on the show, I welcomed new episodes of Stickin Around and Rugrats with open arms back in the day because those shows were in production, (but I guess Rescue Heroes had been airing the same stuff for quite some time I just accepted that that was all they had)
Depth: It depends on which rank you start off as, if you start as a rookie it will take you awhile, but if you start as a Specialist then this shouldn’t take very long, but then again the missions are longer
Difficulty: There are four modes of difficulty, Rookie, Officer, Captain, and Specialist and you actually move up in ranks after you complete all the missions, however with each promotion the missions get more difficult, fires can restart, there are more people to evacuate, and don’t get me started on the stupid Simon type bonus game, I mean don’t get me wrong I’m glad Roger Houston got some screen time here but that game was so difficult I had to write down the patterns
Post review follow up: I’m not going to lie, I prefer watching the tv series over playing the games…and the toys…..I wonder how they would have handled the 2004 Tsunami? Or the Earthquakes in Japan and Haiti (good god considering the Nuclear Reactor issue that happened in Japan they’d have so much on their plates even they had alot to deal with in the first episode…no not the Lava Alert pilot) or even the 2005 Hurricane season (that season was too busy to only consider Katrina). I don’t think the game is bad it’s better than most game boy games
This concludes my review, and remember; Think Like a Rescue Hero, Think Safe
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