This might be nostalgia talking, as this was the very first GameCube game I ever played 20 Christmases ago, but I genuinely don’t understand why critics at the time slammed this game so hard. It’s fine. It’s not much more than fine, and I can’t genuinely recommend playing it, but it’s not nearly as bad as the reviews would lead you to believe. As far as licensed games go it gets far, far worse than this.