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I’m a huge Aqua Teen fan and even that can’t really save this game.
I mean, I’ll start with the positives:
1. For an ATHF video game on the PS2, it actually looks pretty good! Character models are nice, environments look like the show.
2. The IDEA is great on paper. A golf game/beat em up is an idea so stupid that it could totally work, in theory.
3. It’s funny. It’s the same Aqua Teen humor, the dialogue is still great. Hearing Shake be such a dick to Meatwad, Turkatron talking about his juicy metal legs when you smack him, it’s good stuff.
4. Good fanservice. Lots of character appearances and references. The Mooninites, the Plutonians, Cybernetic Ghost, etc.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t make up for the game’s big problems.
1. The big one. The gameplay. It’s just too sluggish and repetitive and monotonous and boy just plain not that fun. If they made your characters move and attack faster, I think it could’ve worked. It wouldn’t have been the deepest game out there, but it would work! But man, this game is a SLOOOOOOG. It gets a LITTLE Better when you get some better weapons, but not much.
2. The racing sections. So once every few levels you’ll do a kart racing segment against Skeeter and DP (the frat aliens). And boy, does none of it work. it’s slow, bad controls, pretty easy (except for when the physics mess you up and it takes forever to reorient yourself), and boy do I hate hearing the same three lines over and over again AD. NAUSEUM.
“Who farted?” “Turn on the AC” “Who farted?” “This thing have a CD player?” “who farted?” “Who farted?”
3. These levels are LONG. Early on it’s not a big problem, but later on when the courses get bigger, holy shit. Big levels + incredibly slow traversal speed = please let it end.
It sucks, since there’s real potential here, and the big problems seem SO OBVIOUS! Like someone HAS to have thought “hey, this isn’t very good, maybe we should fix some things up.” Maybe it was low budget, maybe it was a short time frame. But wow, whatever the issue was, it’s a real shame.
I am 30 or 40 years old and I do NOT NEED THIS.
I mean, I’ll start with the positives:
1. For an ATHF video game on the PS2, it actually looks pretty good! Character models are nice, environments look like the show.
2. The IDEA is great on paper. A golf game/beat em up is an idea so stupid that it could totally work, in theory.
3. It’s funny. It’s the same Aqua Teen humor, the dialogue is still great. Hearing Shake be such a dick to Meatwad, Turkatron talking about his juicy metal legs when you smack him, it’s good stuff.
4. Good fanservice. Lots of character appearances and references. The Mooninites, the Plutonians, Cybernetic Ghost, etc.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t make up for the game’s big problems.
1. The big one. The gameplay. It’s just too sluggish and repetitive and monotonous and boy just plain not that fun. If they made your characters move and attack faster, I think it could’ve worked. It wouldn’t have been the deepest game out there, but it would work! But man, this game is a SLOOOOOOG. It gets a LITTLE Better when you get some better weapons, but not much.
2. The racing sections. So once every few levels you’ll do a kart racing segment against Skeeter and DP (the frat aliens). And boy, does none of it work. it’s slow, bad controls, pretty easy (except for when the physics mess you up and it takes forever to reorient yourself), and boy do I hate hearing the same three lines over and over again AD. NAUSEUM.
“Who farted?” “Turn on the AC” “Who farted?” “This thing have a CD player?” “who farted?” “Who farted?”
3. These levels are LONG. Early on it’s not a big problem, but later on when the courses get bigger, holy shit. Big levels + incredibly slow traversal speed = please let it end.
It sucks, since there’s real potential here, and the big problems seem SO OBVIOUS! Like someone HAS to have thought “hey, this isn’t very good, maybe we should fix some things up.” Maybe it was low budget, maybe it was a short time frame. But wow, whatever the issue was, it’s a real shame.
I am 30 or 40 years old and I do NOT NEED THIS.
It alright!
Honestly the story about the making of the game is more interesting than the game itself. Originally being made as a GBA version of Rayman 2, they instead shoehorned in some Rayman 3 stuff (like the bare minimum) so they could tie it into 3’s console release.
And since it plays more like Rayman 1, it DOES kinda feel like a melting pot of the first three Rayman games, which is interesting.
The story is an absolute mess. Like, Globox swallows a black Lum, that makes sense, but Razorbeard and the robo pirates are back?? What
But other than that? It’s a solid 2D platformer. Not always super interesting, but it works, looks alright, sounds alright, it’s fun enough! Gameplay mixes it up every now and then with minigames, kinda a standard GBA 2D platformer. But it does it well enough, and I always have a great time with my boy Rayman.
Honestly the story about the making of the game is more interesting than the game itself. Originally being made as a GBA version of Rayman 2, they instead shoehorned in some Rayman 3 stuff (like the bare minimum) so they could tie it into 3’s console release.
And since it plays more like Rayman 1, it DOES kinda feel like a melting pot of the first three Rayman games, which is interesting.
The story is an absolute mess. Like, Globox swallows a black Lum, that makes sense, but Razorbeard and the robo pirates are back?? What
But other than that? It’s a solid 2D platformer. Not always super interesting, but it works, looks alright, sounds alright, it’s fun enough! Gameplay mixes it up every now and then with minigames, kinda a standard GBA 2D platformer. But it does it well enough, and I always have a great time with my boy Rayman.
It sucked!
Well, I mean as a game, it’s competent enough. It’s a functional if uninteresting point and click. It only crashed on me twice!
But man… the world it takes place in, the cast of characters, the sense of “humor” of it all… boy is it stinky. Which is in the spirit of the game, since about half of Hector’s dialogue is about how bad other people smell!
It’s a very cynical world full of hateful characters, where the height of just too funny is a pile of poop jokes and liberal use of the r word.
I will say, at the very least, it looks nice. Nice, simple style for the characters, some very nice backgrounds. But boy, that can only carry you for so long.
If I were to rate the episodes, I think I’d go 2>3>1. 2 I actually didn’t think was that bad, a couple of funny jokes and good ideas. 3 wasn’t as bad as 1, but sure wasn’t very interesting. Episode 1 just sucked.
I’ve seen reviews for this game that can be summed up as “if you’re offended, then this ISN’T FOR YOU” and I agree. It isn’t for me. I’m looking for something funny.
Well, I mean as a game, it’s competent enough. It’s a functional if uninteresting point and click. It only crashed on me twice!
But man… the world it takes place in, the cast of characters, the sense of “humor” of it all… boy is it stinky. Which is in the spirit of the game, since about half of Hector’s dialogue is about how bad other people smell!
It’s a very cynical world full of hateful characters, where the height of just too funny is a pile of poop jokes and liberal use of the r word.
I will say, at the very least, it looks nice. Nice, simple style for the characters, some very nice backgrounds. But boy, that can only carry you for so long.
If I were to rate the episodes, I think I’d go 2>3>1. 2 I actually didn’t think was that bad, a couple of funny jokes and good ideas. 3 wasn’t as bad as 1, but sure wasn’t very interesting. Episode 1 just sucked.
I’ve seen reviews for this game that can be summed up as “if you’re offended, then this ISN’T FOR YOU” and I agree. It isn’t for me. I’m looking for something funny.