I loved Clan of the Gray Wolf as a kid, thankful he introduced me properly to BS Zelda, but he told one of the greatest lies in all of Gaming Youtube when he said this game is extremely well-polished.
This is the game where your jump kick has I-Frames for the entire 1-2 second animation. You can use this to trivialize the first part of the final boss
This is the game where every time you press the Volteccer button uncharged you get like 2 whole seconds of invincibility for no reason. The cooldown time for pressing the Volteccer button again and refreshing the invincibility is shorter than the invincibility period. You bet your ass you can abuse this for boss quickkills, walking on spikes, and anything else you can think of
This is the game where jumping while rocking the D-Pad after skidding can make Pulseman zip all the way across the screen. It's fairly easy to do, you can abuse it in speedruns of course, but you'll prolly do it accidentally during the first Stage 3 boss as well
This is the game where you have to platform on small triangle surfaces during Stage 3
This is the game with some unbearable underwater mechanics and that horrific stupid-ass tube descent section in Stage 6 which gave me so much pain and frustration as a 12 year old
This is the game with that section of Stage 5 where the Penguins are extremely tough to react to and legitimately spawn out of thin air, like you can actually see it happen for yourself.
It's like a lot of Pokemon games really. Pulseman is a broken fucking mess if you really try play it deeply, but damnit this game's just fun and charming and super duper unique. But you already know the graphics are a beautiful headache-inducing fever dream, the soundtrack is some killer electronic tunes, and the game has some really iconic moments, like the rival fight whose theme sounds like the Gen 2 Rival theme, the casino, the arcade game that, once you beat it leads to the super minimalist depths of a computer, and the 2nd room of Stage 4 is scary as hell wtf. Oh, and lots of Pokemon references !_!
Lately people have been mad that we keep letting Game Freak get away with their releases. I havent bought a new Pokemon game since Sun/Moon (which I loved, and I still play Showdown mind you), but the truth is, Game Freak has ALWAYS been getting away with it.
This is the game where your jump kick has I-Frames for the entire 1-2 second animation. You can use this to trivialize the first part of the final boss
This is the game where every time you press the Volteccer button uncharged you get like 2 whole seconds of invincibility for no reason. The cooldown time for pressing the Volteccer button again and refreshing the invincibility is shorter than the invincibility period. You bet your ass you can abuse this for boss quickkills, walking on spikes, and anything else you can think of
This is the game where jumping while rocking the D-Pad after skidding can make Pulseman zip all the way across the screen. It's fairly easy to do, you can abuse it in speedruns of course, but you'll prolly do it accidentally during the first Stage 3 boss as well
This is the game where you have to platform on small triangle surfaces during Stage 3
This is the game with some unbearable underwater mechanics and that horrific stupid-ass tube descent section in Stage 6 which gave me so much pain and frustration as a 12 year old
This is the game with that section of Stage 5 where the Penguins are extremely tough to react to and legitimately spawn out of thin air, like you can actually see it happen for yourself.
It's like a lot of Pokemon games really. Pulseman is a broken fucking mess if you really try play it deeply, but damnit this game's just fun and charming and super duper unique. But you already know the graphics are a beautiful headache-inducing fever dream, the soundtrack is some killer electronic tunes, and the game has some really iconic moments, like the rival fight whose theme sounds like the Gen 2 Rival theme, the casino, the arcade game that, once you beat it leads to the super minimalist depths of a computer, and the 2nd room of Stage 4 is scary as hell wtf. Oh, and lots of Pokemon references !_!
Lately people have been mad that we keep letting Game Freak get away with their releases. I havent bought a new Pokemon game since Sun/Moon (which I loved, and I still play Showdown mind you), but the truth is, Game Freak has ALWAYS been getting away with it.