Last night I got bored at my computer, and instead of playing Freedom Planet 2 I started logging and rating every N64 game I've played, and I had the extreme misfortune of remembering this rental from way back in the day. It's a horrifically late release for the N64, but hey maybe it'll be good, I mean Looney Tunes Sheep Raider on PS1 was nice and that was also a late-gen licensed game! Big oof.
Chemical X-Traction to put it bluntly is an ultra-low effort Power Stone rip-off. The game makes no attempt to disguise this fact by using Chemical X as it's "Power Stones", except they grant access to shitty looking special attacks instead of rad super forms. Hell, the game is so low effort that they only put in one music track similar to the Dragon Ball Z Trading Card Game on GBA, except there's even less because it literally spams the title theme from the show all throughout the game, from intro to shitty text-only epilogue of the final boss fight with Him. I'll seriously be shocked if you don't shut the game off to save yourself from having that shit stuck in your head for the rest of the day. If you're not shutting off the console due to the lack of music, you'll probably be shutting it off due to the trash heap CPU that was programmed during someone's lunch break. It's pretty much the worst kind, the one that manages to be both stupid and cheap at the same time. Absolutely no fun. If you attempt to stand toe-to-toe with them they'll endlessly combo you, and attempting to throw anything around the arena at them is immediately met with a catch and instant hurl back towards you. This is on easy by the way. The CPU is a massive migraine-inducing affair until you figure out how to divekick and then endlessly spam it at them for free damage, since it's the only thing that works most of the time.
The story mode is a complete joke, it's only taking the three girls through the same set of opponents with text describing the plot. The only thing I can remember is "Chemical X Pies" and Him apparently burning Mojo Jojo to death, it's nice to know they did the latter for fun since they didn't have to show it in an E-rated game. The graphics suck, the performance sucks, the music wears on your sanity, the gameplay is laggy and shitty, the characters don't talk and just grunt and scream, etc. The framerate sucks so bad during Fuzzy's stage that it feels like the game misses 80% of my inputs, and for what? The goddamn fire barrel outside his house is just too much for the N64 to handle apparently?!?!?!
Garbage, the absolute epitome of licensed trashware. By far the worst N64 game I ever rented when I was a kid, I can't remember any other time where I played a game for 15 minutes and immediately asked my mom to get rid of it, like it was a big ugly spider that managed to sneak into my room. It takes a monumental amount of effort for me to dislike a bad fighting game, but man this game sure found a way. Action 52 has more charm and grace than this shit.
Rotten game. The Broccoloids would wear clothespins on their non-existent noses around this smelly-ass game.
Chemical X-Traction to put it bluntly is an ultra-low effort Power Stone rip-off. The game makes no attempt to disguise this fact by using Chemical X as it's "Power Stones", except they grant access to shitty looking special attacks instead of rad super forms. Hell, the game is so low effort that they only put in one music track similar to the Dragon Ball Z Trading Card Game on GBA, except there's even less because it literally spams the title theme from the show all throughout the game, from intro to shitty text-only epilogue of the final boss fight with Him. I'll seriously be shocked if you don't shut the game off to save yourself from having that shit stuck in your head for the rest of the day. If you're not shutting off the console due to the lack of music, you'll probably be shutting it off due to the trash heap CPU that was programmed during someone's lunch break. It's pretty much the worst kind, the one that manages to be both stupid and cheap at the same time. Absolutely no fun. If you attempt to stand toe-to-toe with them they'll endlessly combo you, and attempting to throw anything around the arena at them is immediately met with a catch and instant hurl back towards you. This is on easy by the way. The CPU is a massive migraine-inducing affair until you figure out how to divekick and then endlessly spam it at them for free damage, since it's the only thing that works most of the time.
The story mode is a complete joke, it's only taking the three girls through the same set of opponents with text describing the plot. The only thing I can remember is "Chemical X Pies" and Him apparently burning Mojo Jojo to death, it's nice to know they did the latter for fun since they didn't have to show it in an E-rated game. The graphics suck, the performance sucks, the music wears on your sanity, the gameplay is laggy and shitty, the characters don't talk and just grunt and scream, etc. The framerate sucks so bad during Fuzzy's stage that it feels like the game misses 80% of my inputs, and for what? The goddamn fire barrel outside his house is just too much for the N64 to handle apparently?!?!?!
Garbage, the absolute epitome of licensed trashware. By far the worst N64 game I ever rented when I was a kid, I can't remember any other time where I played a game for 15 minutes and immediately asked my mom to get rid of it, like it was a big ugly spider that managed to sneak into my room. It takes a monumental amount of effort for me to dislike a bad fighting game, but man this game sure found a way. Action 52 has more charm and grace than this shit.
Rotten game. The Broccoloids would wear clothespins on their non-existent noses around this smelly-ass game.
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The password for all characters/stages is Buttercup, Ace, Bubbles, Mojo, Fuzzy apparently if you want it. They had the audacity to make Fuzzy Lumpkins an unlockable.
shoulda played Glover
if only I had loved the glove, but alas....
Drax
1 year ago