KZA66
2006
This game is hilariously bad. Plays like absolute shit, I tapped out at maybe 15% of the story. I'm giving it 1.5 stars on the grounds that I played the co-op mode with friends and it was so stupid and confusing that we had a great time laughing at this shit. Oh yeah I literally got this game out of a Walmart bargain bin when I was too young to understand money. Just gotta laugh.
Yeah this game actually sucks as much as everyone says. I've cut off the tip of my finger and shot myself with a nail gun before and you know what? At least I felt something instead of whatever the fuck ET on Atari is. This game is just wrestling with atrocious control, unreasonable timing windows, and hideous graphics until you ask yourself "what the fuck am I doing this for" and you close the emulator in disgust. Fuck off ET.
2000
This game broke my PS2 as a kid with the end result being I could only play Smuggler's Run. Pretty fucking stupid. The free roam mode is good, you can knock cows off mountains and smash up RVs to form a crude road block. Being 8 years old I also couldn't understand what a map was so it was fun going on the desert level and looking for the pyramid. The missions sucked enough that I didn't even try to finish them. Always play as the O'Grady's. This game is bang average.
2006
Well I played this game when I was old enough to like Bionicles and even then it was a repetitive piece of shit. It's like a first-person and inferior version of other LEGO games. I'll give it an okay rating for the nostalgia factor but really all you do is wander around hoping to gain gold powers. Bionicles do not make good games.
The graphics aren't bad and the game only cost like 2 dollars or whatever the fuck I paid for it. Wasn't much. That's all the positives I have. Everything in this game moves like shit and has the same strategy of stepping backwards and hitting while they recover. There's lava too for some reason, not sure what fun is derived from jumping your sluggish-ass MC over a thin strip of magma but whatever. You can buy weapons but they're all the same with different reach.
This game is incredibly simple, I can see the throwback appeal but really it doesn't stack up at all these days. It's reasonable value for the minuscule price and it's also kind of hilarious so I guess 2 stars is fine.
This game is incredibly simple, I can see the throwback appeal but really it doesn't stack up at all these days. It's reasonable value for the minuscule price and it's also kind of hilarious so I guess 2 stars is fine.
2021
This review contains spoilers
Played Kasane route for context. Game has brilliant art direction, the enemies especially have a surreal and unique vibe. Combat is a lot of fun with each enemy prompting you to figure out the best SAS strategy for beating them. Social aspect wasn't very deep but I liked the characters enough to watch the scenes. Overall story is not good, super convoluted and so much shit is completely unexplained. Kodama, Court Mort, Circus Maximus, why you bothered hiding those ampoules, why Naomi was shot, none of this shit is explained properly and it really took away from the experience for me.
Overall a fun but flawed game, would recommend for the combat and aesthetics.
Overall a fun but flawed game, would recommend for the combat and aesthetics.