Three RPG reviews pulled from Sega Genesis Classics

This is going to be one of my absolute longest series of reviews I done in a long time. But considering all of them were pulled from Sega Genesis Classics. Maybe others that were quite unhappy with it's delisting find some enjoyment in reading any of these reviews. Seriously it would mean a lot to me to just read one of them that's it.

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I secretly had a rather interesting idea. If I could get more into any video game genre I barely played much out of. I kept coming back to Role-playing games aka RPGs for short. Some of the longest video games I heard of are in that genre. We are talking enough content to play for hours.

A lot of them also has random battles that can easily slow everything down. I will confirmed I played a handful of these classics through Sega Genesis Classics recently. I confessed I started one of them prior to my visit seeing my family. I have since finished that game along with two others that just happened honestly.

Originally I was going to delay a little longer to include a fourth game. But it's vastly different from these to stand out on it's own. I figured at a later date I could eventually finish it. Also one of today's games was not only among a lot of Sega Genesis games I had growing up. It also among the very first RPG games I ever played.

I also plan to rank these for sure. But I'm sure as soon I start talking about my favorite among em. You quickly figure out which was my favorite. I'll even confirm my favorite stands with the finest Genesis games in two great Sega compilation games I played. In all honestly it truly was a fantastic game. I really had a lot of fun writing all of this thanks to anyone that reads at least some of it.

I put a lot of hours into making this three in one Sega RPG reviews blog entry. I took my time to do one playthrough each. I also will confirm two of them are from the same RPG franchise. A former competitor to Final Fantasy no less. A major hint what I'll be reviewing shortly. I know the introduction longer than normal is fitting for a huge RPG review.

1. Sword of Vermilion (1990)

I actually grew up with two RPG games on Sega Genesis. Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun and Sword of Vermilion respectively. I always remembered their cover pictures. Despite being games I never gotten far in. Sword of Vermilion dramatically changed my opinion of it during a playthrough.

Keep in mind, this was an early Sega Genesis game. Not debut year but close to that. You only get one playable character. Which is unusual for most RPGs at the time having a lot of playable characters. You play as a prince that learns the truth. He goes on a quest to save the world from a man.

Thankfully you can easily grind up levels as well as money. This game has several unique genre usages within the game play. You get the typical exploring towns like most older RPG games. A different style within dungeons called dungeon crawlers. Virtually first person exploring dungeons works wonders here.

Personally I was a slightly bigger fan of Shining in the Darkness' usage more. A different style altogether exploring the actual map outside towns and dungeons. You get two views during these sections. You see your character moving around the huge map. You also get a map screen to sorta help you out.

The big issue is you have to find maps for that section. Some of which an old man among talking gives ya. Some villagers among talking to em does the same thing. I do strongly recommend follow a guide. As for the random battles it's way better from most games in the genre. Even this follow aspect I didn't know what to think as a kid years ago.

Instead of being in teams against one or more enemies. Which also would've given you options you could do. You simply appear onscreen with enemies. You have two major options either fight to attempt killing them all or run away. Which the later option gets much trickier later on to do. It's rather annoying sometimes you're forced to face em knowing your chances to get further decreases.

The final major game play style actually are the boss fights. Most of them is one on one with your character finally prepared for battle. However you can't use magic or jump. Although you can easily duck to a degree. A handful of them has a few enemies before you could directly face em. To be fair, it could've been worst than this.

I dislike the final boss altogether. The only boss with a few phases. The first phase actually similar to a previous boss with skeletons. The actual boss doesn't have much health. Then he transforms into a surprisingly cheap final boss. You are already limited what you could do. Well you really feel that the most here.

You have to take out four heads it's a weird abomination of a creature. By the way the game doesn't end with his defeat I'll explain later. The actual map connecting everywhere is rather confusing to navigate. Some issues like not having maps to sections or limited light equipment. Earlier these issues can be quite frustrating to deal with.

Sure you could go to a store to buy candles or lanterns. But lanterns stops after you leave dungeons. Which is why I prefer the later light spell just wasting some magic that's it. As for getting poisoned, a particular shield helps against it. What's better than that shield is a spell to counter it altogether. To clarify you can still get poisoned but you can easily get rid out of that afterwards.

Later on those no longer is an issue. Like the light problem easily countered by a light spell. Very late into the game is you find an object. Then you use it instantly gives you every map in the entire game I'm not kidding. I also gotta mention this game absolutely loves caves!!! You have to travel through em being your dungeons for the most part.

The actual story if you care enough is in all honestly quite decent. There's a particular twist that affected me emotionally. There's a particular merchant that's rude to you at first. You don't even get allowed to leave or see the prices. He rudely replies saying you don't have enough money. Trust me, this truly stood out as it's happening to me.

He takes all your money plus whatever sword you had equipped. Before I fully seen the twist to this. I was quite mixed being forced to trigger this among following a written guide. It turns out he was a secret ally that used what he's taken from you to make. Wait for it, the Sword of Vermilion!!! I didn't expect this twist when I noticed it in the written guide I was following.

Yes he later reveals he was being watched by enemies. Up to a point poison enemies is rather annoying. You are forced to get a particular item that cures you. Except for a mysterious woman that offered you food. Which you quickly realized poisoned you. Sadly that item doesn't cure you of that. Sure it does serve as a cheap excuse to explore another location.

You have no choice but go out of your way to find a particular plant to cure yourself. By the way the woman in question actually one of the final bosses in the game. I do enjoy some of the art design to a degree. The absolute best aspect of all is the music. Some sound effects takes a little getting use to. In all honestly, for an early Genesis game it's decent.

Man some of these songs are very decent. For my first RPG game with one playable character I finished. I was quite amazed how fun portions of this game was. Yes it quickly gets repetitive to a degree. At the same time, the game has ways to balance itself out. Also need to point out back in the day.

Some RPG games like this could include books to help you out starting the games. Which is exactly why originally they cost more than normal. Honestly Sword of Vermilion seems like parts of it could be somewhat beginner friendly. Some the bosses are slightly altered variations with the later ones being trickier to beat.

Sword of Vermilion likely take you a couple hours to finish. Surprisingly the actual map connecting everything quite huge. It's sorta like metroidvania games in that department. Just not as well executed in my opinion. I could recommend this game. Of course there's better RPG games around. To be fair I rather play this over Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest.

I also gotta mention the walking speed is a little slow. If you're playing this on Sega Genesis Classics. You may wanna hold down the fast forward button you'll thank me. It's not the slowest I ever experienced in a game though. Another major factor is towns differs which stores they have. Thankfully issues like that no longer a problem at that point in the game.

Which can be somewhat frustrating. Although you do later get a flight spell to make getting around the map much easier. Let's be honest, it's a huge back track RPG game. A good amount of it you can't avoid. At the same time, some of that ends up being well worth the effort later on. As for the main antagonist the truth is revealed among his defeat.

It turns out these evil rings originally your father the deceased king and this guy had good intentions. Neither was prepared for getting corrupted by the evil rings. They wanted to help save the world. Instead indirectly cause it to go into chaos. The other guy kills your father. Among revealing the truth, he regretted many actions from those rings.

A little weird you must use sixteen rings. It's literately called sixteen things in your inventory on the throne. Which triggers the ending to the game. But it's a little confusing on how many rings there actually are within the story. Thankfully it's not ripping off The Lord of the Rings franchise. Although a set of evil rings corrupting people would be similar to the One Ring.

There's one more character I wanna discuss. There's a rather selfish king I really don't like. I actually enjoyed the master of disguise king way more. Just wish the game had more stuff with that king instead. This prick forces you to get him three different crystals. All within dungeons guarded by bosses. He kept going back on his promises.

Inevitably the main character forces him to hand over a particular ring. However an servant of your dad confirms he handed over a fake ring. Which led to his own kingdom's downfall after you left. Amazing how everything was fine until his selfishness led to his own kingdom's demise. I was in all honestly glad he's gotten this fate.

For an early Genesis RPG game it's better than expected. Some mechanics takes a little more than others to get used to. Parts of the game may not aged as well as other aspects. This still turned out to be a surprisingly fun game. Some items are frustrating to find for many reasons. Despite things I could recommend checking this game out.

2. Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom (1991)

A weird start to a review I only done three character's paths. This will get rather confusing later on. This is the third entry in the classic Phantasy Star series. Back when the franchise was a more direct competitor to Final Fantasy series. Personally Sega knew when to quit lol. This also seen by many fans as the black sheep of the series.

Among looking at the game it doesn't looks similar to the other entries. Yes the game does later explain it's connection. The game is actually broken up into three sections called generations. Generation 1 will always be the same except for the end decision. You play as a prince with a small group of characters.

You actually go against orders of the king aka your dad to pursuit these monsters. Rhys was about to get married to Maia a mysterious women. Originally there were plans for him to marry Lena. Whose ends up in your party during Generation 1. The actual farming of experience points as well as money the slowest here.

It's not game breaking but sure takes awhile to truly get going. There's two bosses Rhys' party faces during Generation 1. Lyle suddenly leaves your party to end up as the first boss of the game. What's unique about this is whatever level he's used as well as how much HP he had prior to leaving. Determines the difficulty of Rhys facing him exclusively one on one.

Thankfully with a good strategy he'll go down. The final boss of Generation is Maia's father that's also a king of a different country. I guess by that point you should've seen that twist coming. Her dad is also accompanied by a few monsters. Of course, he is the biggest threat by that point in the game. I recommend stocking up on health items.

Not to mention grinding up a couple levels to better your chances. Also take advantage of using Gisares that heals the entire party to a degree. You better get use to that during the later boss fights. After the king defeated Rhys is presented with his final decision. He has the choice to marry either Maia or Lena. Which also determines your main character in Generation 2.

Keep in mind, these paths notably differ from each other. For this review I chosen to go with Lena. I ended up playing as their son Nial. Farming money as well as experience is notably increased to a degree. Some characters notably level up much faster than others. Oddly the magic user in two generations required the most experience points to level up.

Basically despite being the lowest leveled within parties. They actually secretly among the strongest characters you play as. You just gotta be patience for them to level up longer than everyone else. Nial's path does start throwing out some awesome stuff you can do. Like you get to see more of the worlds. Oh okay you're in a spaceship with each section in vastly different worlds.

Later on, you do use an spaceship to fly away a few times. The other path I didn't choose had a few more boss fights. I didn't realize that prior to writing this. I ended up with just one boss fight with Lune. The other path where you play as Ayn slightly more boss fights. Ultimately regardless who you picked for Generation 3 the same two final bosses.

Either Nial or Ayn gets to choose between two women to marry. In total you get four final paths from Generation 2's final decision is crazy!!! I ended up choosing Laya whose sister shares the same name. She also ends up in Nial's party as well. Generation 3 there's a lot of major changes. If Generation 2 wasn't fast enough for ya.

Trust me, Generation 3 gives you some awesome surprises. Two particular characters in every path you can take. Being Mieu and Wren whom are both cyborgs. They end up being your most played characters in this game. Grinding experience points as well as money actually kinda ridiculous. Majority of your party levels up faster than your main character.

For some weird reason Nial takes longer to level up. Wren gets a few vehicle forms. He can transform to fly or move across the water. Obviously his flight form much faster in comparison. Not only that you might've noticed some air fields around the worlds. Generation 3 also delivers major lore drops. You can expect some good surprises.

It turns out everyone here within the three generations are survivors of Parma. Which was directly caused by the conclusion of Phantasy Star II. I know some might see that being a rather loose connection. Among researching where it fits in the timeline, this actually the last to happen. Almost sandwich in terms of where it fits into everything.

Parts of this felt somewhat like an classic Final Fantasy game. Probably why some quickly didn't like it over. I will give em credit for making all these possible paths you can go. Now that's a lot to pull off for it's time. Random battles is what you expect not much to say. I do like the boss fights are somewhat distance.

In all honestly, this was much better than I expected. The maps are much easier to follow than Sword of Vermilion. Most towns had majority of stores. Speaking of that, Inns acts as both fill your party back to max after paying em. You also could go an in game save following em. If you're playing this through either huge Genesis compilation game you don't need to.

I also need to point some locations has a passage through a cave as well as a temple. Starting from Generation 2 you can directly use temples. They mostly act as short cuts to the same locations from passages. Now passages is filled with enemies that's tricky to navigate. You don't wanna risk going in low on resources.

You also need to collect five weapons for each member of your party for the final battle. Now I can finally discuss the final two bosses. There's two similar floating locations only reachable by Wren in his flight form. The first of them only has enemies in the dungeon section. However the later one is all filled with enemies.

This guy like King Cile also accompanied by enemies. Thankfully some members of your party could be altered to directly target him. I been avoiding discussing these combat options for a good reason. Unlike most of the series easy to memorize commands. You may have to experiment to a degree to know how they properly work.

Even running away option at first you may not realize what it does. There's a brief animation for these options as well. One of them allows you to decide what each member of the party could do during fights. It's not as simple as you automatically can choose which enemy to target right off the bat. This guy right behind the final dungeon too.

You will notice there's two major dungeon designs. Either you get a more rocky maze that you might have trouble seeing further of or a more glass theme dungeon. Several broken glass preventing you from moving forward forcing you to find alternative paths. Thankfully in the rock dungeons it's mostly find someone as well as a few stuff.

Mostly with the more glass theme ones it's finding items. A handful of times you need to interact with technology that's automatic. Obviously that's the easy part of exploring em. If you have Escapipes you can use em to instantly get out of em. Just not fully for some weird reason. However this item doesn't work on the later floating city where the game ends prior to the final dungeon.

The logic for this it's not an actual dungeon despite eventually leading into one. Some of these sucks if you lack that item. You can't imagine how confusing some of them are unless you play this. I'll try to give an good example. Back in Generation 1 prior to facing the king. You had to navigate a rather unusual style.

You may notice a lot of stairs on the way to eventually getting to the first set of stairs. Which means you gotta navigate underneath trying to figure where to go often. It's trivial of error without a guide. I didn't follow the guide in those sections. I did try to later on though. It also doesn't help how the main section where the boss is.

You can't even reach that opening unless you find a direct way into that section of the location. Which makes an already confusing, frustrating situation more so. I also like merchants could refuse giving you equipment. Mostly due to those doesn't work with that character.

Although you could still end up buying em. You also can option up the menu to swap items around to a degree. Which can be a little confusing at first to do. If your main character has too many items. Whatever you find simply goes to the next character within your parties. I do like that since it does help you out later on.

The overall pace goes from somewhat slow to wow you may wanna slow down a bit. I am not kidding when experience points and money earning notably increases. I had a team mostly in level 40s for the final battle. I didn't even do an grind section to clarify. I simply do my best to follow the guide mostly fighting enemies.

The final boss regardless of paths is Dark Force. I simply love you work your way to a particular chest in a dungeon. Can you imagine open a chest to find such an evil being inside? I don't know if that's meant to be a reference to a story with pandora's box. You know a woman assigned to keep guard of this box.

Inevitably her curiosity led to opening the box causing the apocalypse to happen. If you think about it this is kinda similar to that. Dark Force is usually among the final bosses in this particular Phantasy Star series. He actually has three separate health bars with no phases. Which is weird but it kinda works in it's favori.

Both his hands has HP you could took out. I highly recommend taking out his left hand which is on your right to clarify. This hand at times will quickly do a spell to heal all the health bars up to a degree. Which means as soon as that hand taken out he can't heal anymore. Despite being leveled up this could be a tough final boss fight.

Phantasy Star III is more overlooked for it's reputation. At the same time, it's also somewhat underrated as well. The characters are rememberable to a degree. I do actually enjoy a good amount of the game play. Sure it can get quite repetitive at times. Also playing it through Sega Genesis Classics helps with rewinding as well as quicker save/load features.

This sorta felt like three short RPG games in one. I am still quite surprised it wasn't much longer. I also gotta mention the audio as a whole I absolutely loved it!!! There's a lot of depth into everything. Sometimes a game quickly turns you off. Simply because you prefer how the older ones plays in comparison.

I had that same reaction with Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. Then I gave that a chance, I ended up loving it. The same ended up happening with this game. It's not the best entry in the original Phantasy Star series. I will say this was quite an amazing RPG game indeed. Honestly you may wanna consider giving this one a try.

3. Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium (1995)

Easily not only the best Phantasy Star game but also the very best RPG Genesis game I ever played!!! Originally intended to be an Sega CD game. Which didn't have many notable RPG games there. Mostly Shining Force CD that's also in Sega Genesis Mini 2. The person in charge was convinced this Phantasy Star game as ambitious it was could work insanely well on Sega Genesis.

Of course, they were right in the end. Phantasy Star IV is in all honestly mind blowing awesomeness. The game starts with two hunters Alys and Chaz investigating into monsters showing up at an university. I really gotta mention I love these anime style cutscenes. They sorta pop on your screen like panels of a comic book or an manga volume for that matter.

The audio as a whole really well done I'm deeply impressed. If it's obvious by the game's title. Sega made this to be the conclusion of that Phantasy Star series. Despite actually taking place in between Phantasy Star II & III. Don't worry I'll explain how they wrap everything up later. The story is incredibly well done.

This is a rather long game that somehow kept things fun as well as refreshing to a degree. It never begins to start over staying it's welcome. I haven't fully played the first two games. I never did finish Phantasy Star I through Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection. You get some rather interesting party members on the way.

You actually get to travel between locations around an solar system. Just like Phantasy Star III, later on is such a deep lore drop. It's actually quite an epic one at that. They also reveal a major threat about a recurring boss character you face in all of them. Dark Force actually shows up three different times in the entire game!!!

Later on I'll full explain how Dark Force fits in to all of this. You get a few temporary party members on the way. Kyra fights like Alys to a degree. By the way the game attempts to trick you into thinking Alys being the main character. Then a rather sucky situation occurs that took her life. If it's obvious her apprentice, Chaz the true main character of the game.

She's also named after the famous original protagonist back in the first Phantasy Star game. Ultimately you can only have five party members. Which does play a role prior to the final boss fight. You surprisingly get a choice between a few characters. You also get a man named Seth whose actually Dark Force in disguise briefly in your party.

This is different from facing Lyle in Phantasy Star III. He had good intentions while Dark Force a true monster in comparison. Before I can even discuss that version fully. On an satellite is where you first face Dark Force. You later face him in a cave funny enough. Where he took on a more insect form. The final Dark Force boss fight happens as soon as you leave a particular location.

You go in for an key item that's meant to find a hidden planet. But this also forced Seth aka Dark Force to expose his true identity. None of these boss fights are easy. I really gotta mention this one is filled with boss fights. You have to grind a lot more than normal to attempt getting further. There's also some guardians you defeat on your journey that's helps set the end game up.

This still felt somewhat easier than normal. I have virtually no complaint about the combat system it's perfectly done. You also get some vehicles that can get random battles. Which is kinda awesome you can do that!!! Sure these vehicles are planet depended usage. They quickly make up for that though. There's even good story within the side quests.

They really put a lot of work into everything. Not even one notable bad location in the entire game. Each major location being planets or satellites is done amazingly well. This game truly screams epic in every sense of the word. Phantasy Star IV even was good enough to make it into Sega Genesis Mini 1's lineup.

The art style is among my most favorites on the system. The true antagonist is Profound Darkness. It turns out Dark Force was avatars of Profound Darkness. Which explains why all three Dark Force avatars you face were notably different from each other. You discovered a huge hole in the ground of a particular planet.

I highly recommend leveling up as high as you could go. Stock the hell out on health items. If you can run away from major random fights inside do so. This final boss has three phases I'm not kidding. Now this will test your determination how bad you wanna beat the game!!! I guess people who fought Lavos in Chrono Trigger felt the same as I did here.

Phantasy Star IV was the perfect ending entry to a once legendary RPG franchise. Everything about it is top notch. I can't even criticize much of it at all it's that damn good!!! I do recommend following a guide it's a long game after all. This could be a great beginner RPG game as well. You just aren't living until you play this!!!

Now I previously promised to rank the three classic Sega RPG games down below...

3. Sword of Vermilion

2. Phantasy Star III

1. Phantasy Star IV

Between 3 and 2 it was surprisingly closer. I do felt Sword of Vermilion had slightly better songs. Ultimately it was easier to understand maps in Phantasy Star III. Also having a couple more characters helped spice up the game play. Not to mention, all the possible paths from Generation 2 to Generation 3. There's simply more in depth within the game play.

Obviously neither came close to Phantasy Star IV. Now it's crazy PHIV came out late into the system's run. Especially not many Genesis games gotten people's attention that year. Unless you count Vectorman 1 or Comix Zone. Both of which also in several Genesis compilation games. Around that point people were quickly getting ready for PlayStation 1 and Nintendo 64 respectively.

For what it's worth Phantasy Star IV is a truly amazing video game. I couldn't imagine such an RPG game exists!!! I know many had similar reactions to several RPG classics. I did notice after playing em. My view on the genre changed notably. I don't expect to jump into more right away. I'm just glad for such a random thought I had.

It actually led to something mind blowing. Something that's already changed my life to a degree. Sometimes you gotta take chances to find more stuff you like. Ultimately that's the entire point of doing this. I sure had a lot of fun playing these three RPG games. I would for sure consider playing em again. I personally would place RPGs over Simulator games well weird ones.

Four movie reviews (2024-2025)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I know I been writing a lot of blog entries today. Here's a huge composite review blog. I felt with what I already finished to make it a little easier. But doing four movie reviews in one long review blog entry. I watched these following movies with my parents during my vacation.

I also got to make a few things clear before I get started here. Three of them are horror movies of course they are lol. One of the following movies is a comedy movie I knew on and off about for years. Yes once again I'm doing another movie with that reputation. For those that takes the time to read all of this. Trust me it's going to be a long one at that, thank you so much for your time.

There's on more thing I also wanna try to keep these spoiler free as possible. For anyone interested in any of these movies I'll be reviewing here.

1. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024)

For years, stuff regarding a fourth Beverly Hills Cop movie. Out of no where stuff started to show up with more details than normal. Further confirming the movie finally happening through Netflix. Eddie Murphy also a producer of his own company. Adam Saddler is in a similar boat. I personally felt this was better than expected.

More importantly it also was better than Coming 2 America. To be fair it lived up a little more to my expectations than Dumb & Dumber To. By now more of these legacy sequels are showing up. Some are surprisingly decent while others just does not work at all. Personally I felt Beetlejuice Beetlejuice for me lends towards it works enough to get the job done.

I also felt the same about Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F as well. Axel tries to help his daughter whose a lawyer. She blindly believes her client is innocent. Being a crime movie crazy stuff happens. Some of the older actors do better than expected. I was pleasantly surprised Kevin Bacon in the movie. Hero or villain, that guy can act!!!

I also respect this is more of it's own thing from the previous movies. For what it's worth this easily blew the last two Die Hard movies away it's not even close!!! Murphy still got it after all these years. I liked we get to see newer characters interact with the older ones a couple of times. Parts of it sorta came off as indirectly Axel passed the torch to someone else not spoiling who though.

Considering the previous movie was in 1994. Thirty years ago I was quite surprised how much I liked this!!! Don't go in expecting it to be like the classic movies. I rather you attempt viewing this as a somewhat modernize take on the same concept. Which may turn some older fans off. At least you get a better ideas how this differs from those movies.

This isn't a plot repeated thing either. I got to be honest, I would rewatch this movie. I do need to rewatch the first three movies again. For a legacy sequel I felt it deserved mostly what you want. I took notice of a few upcoming legacy sequels prior to writing this. I felt this is going to be better than those newer ones.

Yes I just took a shot at Spaceballs 2. I do think that still has a fighting chance. The Naked Gun with Liam Neeson not so much. I will say this though several sections doesn't go the way you expect em to. I didn't expect more action scenes like this. Eddie took a huge risk to bring this franchise back. I do believe he caught our attention with flying colors!!!

2. Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)

I just checked I surprisingly haven't done the other Final Destination movies. Which is kinda mind blowing to me. Final Destination series is among my favorite horror movie franchises ever!!! The concept is someone gets a vision about what's about to happen. Which originally would've killed everyone.

Usually anyone with these views ends up saving a couple people from death. Then Death as in the entity hunts em down. Some of the absolute most creative kills in movies I have ever seen!!! We waited since 2011 for another Final Destination movie. I gotta be honest this was well worth the wait. It's not what I personally would call an legacy sequel.

Although in a few ways I could see how some could view it as one. I will try to not give it all away though. Yes the late Tony Todd is in the movie just not for very long. At the time of filming, he was in a bad state. They were amazed to get anything at all with his condition. It's a similar situation to Sig Haig in 3 from Hell.

There's a few major twists including right at the end. This ended up being one of the finest entries by far. It's technically a prequel as well as a sequel. The prequel portions goes the furthest back to date. The present side of the story is virtually after all the other movies. Just when you think you seen it all. You clearly never seen any Final Destination movies lol.

The special effects alone helped these movies stand out. The creativity that goes into things is exactly why I love these movies so much!!! For a sixth entry it's quite amazing what they were able to pull off. This one made me funny about pennies for a little while after watching the movie. I guess one cent anything you wouldn't expect happens is the point they attempted to get across.

If you haven't seen any of these. I recommend start with the original. Then slowly work your way up to better understand how this franchise works. More true regarding this particular entry. Bloodlines is a huge clue what to expect. This is among the best 2025 movies I seen so far. I highly recommend checking this Final Destination movie out soon.

3. Everyone Is Going to Die (2024)

I won't sugar coat this my least favorite among movies I'm reviewing today. This has to be the weirdest 2024 movie. I watched Beetlejuice Beetlejuice for reference purposes. It's an home invasion film that's becoming more common. Of course, anything horror you can expect a lot of similar concept movies to show up.

Especially some styles based on actual situations that could happen in real life. We have a father and his daughter whose visiting for her 16th birthday. The beginning portions are a little on the slow side. As soon as something unusual shows up things gets picks up. I think it's my mom that said it best. "You couldn't predict what's going to happen next."

I will try to not fully spoil the movie. I will say I wasn't a fan of it's ending!!! All I gotta say about it is don't expect a decent one. It's more like a twist is revealed then it ends crap. How many movies does that? Way too many to keep count for sure. I rather watch any of The Purge movies than this!!! If you wanna be technical about it.

Home Alone was a comical take on the concept meant for families to enjoy while celebrating several holidays. These people held a grudge against her dad for different reasons. Parts of this reminded me of a movie called Phone Booth. Which is way better than this too!!! It's a rather mess up movie with everything considered.

Even if you watch this in an unusual state of mind. You might not enjoy it very much. Let's be honest the movie drags to a degree. At the same time such stuff is happening you almost can't fully look away. A part of you gotta see what's about to happen. When we were searching for movies to watch. I decided to watch this with my parents.

I wish I didn't chosen this movie. It's not for the fact it's an home invasion movie either. None of us expected what we ended seeing. I did kinda laugh when a particular song played earlier in the movie. This truly was a weird, mess up movie. I felt very confused as well as not satisfied after finished watching it.

I had to take some time thinking about how all of that connected together. I don't think I'll consider watching this again. It's not what I would call a bad horror movie. It's more directly a thriller than anything else. Thrillers are meant to constantly keep you guessing what's going to happen. In it's defense the movie did achieve that.

4. Clown in a Cornfield (2025)

Here's my other big horror movie of last month. For a few months, I knew about this killer clown movie. Very quickly I learned it's based on an book of the same name by Adam Sesare. A surprisingly recent book for that matter released back in 2020. I will try to not give too much away. A group of teenagers are being targeted by a killer clown.

Somehow everything ultimately ties together. We have a father with his daughter recently moved in. She quickly becomes part of a circle of friends. There's several twists you won't know are coming. Unless you have a friend or an family member that spoils everything. I did see the trailer revealing one of the kills in the movie.

This guy lifting weights suddenly gets killed by a killer clown. Surprisingly done amazingly well for the movie. Parts of the movie reminded me of another killer clown movie called Clown Fear. Sadly I can't say anything further without spoiling stuff. I got to be honest I was amazed how well this movie works. Some moments reminded me of either Scream franchise or teens after my generation.

I also welcome another killer clown movie. Especially I ended up loving it!!! I do think this earned a spot among the decent killer clown movie. I will directly confirm this it's not a clown rip off of Children of the Corn series. Let's be honest with some similar bad movies. Like Shark Exorcist being a good example how could you not think that at first?

I actually enjoyed most of the kill scenes. Some truly amazing special effects as well. The story will become more interesting as the movie goes on. I gotta be honest this turned out better than expected. More surprised Will Sasso was in the movie. I know him best for Mad TV as well as playing Curley in The Three Stooges movie.

Clown in a Cornfield ended up being a good killer clown movie. It doesn't over stay it's welcome. When the movie picks up it truly delivers. Some rememberable characters to a degree. I simply love the actual look of the clown myself. I knew some horror fans had some hype for this. I also know clowns that works events aren't going to be happy about this movie.

Not to mention the same year as It- Welcome to Derry show as well. This must be the year of Coulrophobia. Fear of clowns for those not familiar with the term. Some could argue some similarities with Scream 4 to a degree. I felt this is much more it's own thing than ripping it off. I will say please consider giving this killer clown movie a try.

Conclusion

I enjoyed most of these movies. Everyone Is Going to Die left a rather unpleasant taste in my mouth. Easily the one movie to avoid among em. If I had to pick the best among these mostly amazing movies. It has to be Final Destination Bloodlines. I kid you not this movie really delivered in so many ways. It was clearly the most ambitious with the most risks.

Somehow they were capable pulling off the impossible. My second favorite was Clown in a Cornfield. Honestly I had a few issues with Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. Still ended up being a rather fun time!!! I don't think it's because I looked forward to seeing that more either. I'm just amazed Axel F turned out to be a decent movie.

I also was a little funny about it being an Netflix movie. It's almost like taking a chance. Either it turns out to be surprisingly decent or crap. Honestly, I would rewatch majority of these movies. Especially Final Destination Bloodlines it's so good!!! In all honestly, it was a small variety of movies to watch with my parents.

I didn't expect much prior to watching the first of these movies either. I kept overhearing my wife rewatching The Last of Us show with my mom. No I haven't seen the show neither played the games. I didn't exactly came with a list of stuff I wanted to watch. I simply wanted to have fun as well as spend more time with my family.

My thoughts on Death Battle: Wile E. Coyote vs Tom Cat

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I been waiting since3 late 2023 for this!!! It couldn't be helped Rooster Teeth went under. Some confusion it caused led to Death Battle becoming fully independent. I'm glad extra time went into this particular Death Battle episode. I figured this would turn out better than Kratos vs Asura.

I know I got a lot to discuss here. Two legendary cartoon characters going at it. Somehow this lived up to the hype as well as expectations it had. Easily among the most creative episodes they ever done. I can confirm unlike Scooby-Doo vs Courage there is a winner. I absolutely loved everything about this episode. I would even dare to say among my favorites to date.

If I had any issues it's very minor at best. I also knew this was going to be close for a ridiculous match up. Both their analyze sections were surprisingly in depth. The actual fight animation itself was hand drawn. Which is rare it's just that for the show. I loved the voices with limited lines both characters were given. We even seen several sections of texts suddenly scrolled down for more stuff!!!

They even included a weird Chinese licensed Tom & Jerry game for this!!! I also knew that gun would decide who wins this fight. When you have a gun capable of removing ridiculousness out of cartoon characters. Which already pretty ridiculous in itself to begin with. Not to mention, the famous rules for Wile chase cartoons meant to somewhat balance things.

This is proof Wile possibly too ridiculous of a character to exist. Tom is pretty ridiculous just not Looney Tunes scaling ridiculousness!!! They also done breaking down categories who ultimately would win in a fight. Tom did win one category I can't argue much since it's somewhat true what they stated. They even kept going doing special thanks on the side.

For me it's amazing when franchises attempt to tone characters down. A great example of this is DC comics with Superman. Sure some of what he could do differs depending on versions. But Superman always been an insanely unbalanced superhero character. They even acknowledged those rules gotten broken including when Chuck Jones making their cartoon shorts.

Speaking of Jones, he also ended up making several Tom & Jerry shorts as well. If you look him up you may be quite surprised a lot of stuff he's done over the years. I just hope Jones looking down with a smile they done this episode. I'm just surprised they didn't bring up similarities with Sylvester the Cat. Another Looney Tunes character with several similarities to Tom.

Don't expect to see my username there. I wasn't a backer after all for their kickstarter. I simply paid to take part in the voting for Tournament of Champions back in 2023. Just in case people wondered how I helped made this amazing Death Battle episode happened. Literately right on the dot a thousand votes. I recalled having fun talking to people within topics for this fight.

I was quite satisfied with the actual episode. I could see some people slightly preferring Scooby-Doo vs Courage. To be honest you really can't go wrong with either cartoon theme episode. This simply meant a little more to me. I always been a huge fan of their respective franchises for a long time. This fight animation felt like a good mix of both franchises done just right.

There's plenty of surprises within the episode itself. For me four episodes in a row I was quite excited for. Then they chosen to follow up with Deku vs Spider-Man (Miles). I'm not sure how to research that regarding Miles until they state otherwise. Which means I may have to do it like James Bond vs John Wick as close to the chest as possible.

Back to Wile vs Tom, it was very amazing what we gotten here. Plenty of rather impressive editing some of the finest to date. The entire episode screams creativity as well as possibilities. Especially considering a few notable similar cartoon fights are always being thrown around. Some of which I also wanna see myself.

Just not crazy about Daffy Duck vs Donald Duck personally. Although I do see the appeal of doing that cartoon duck fight. Bugs Bunny vs Mickey Mouse is going to be one ridiculous ride to cartoon insanity lol. I also wanna see Bluto vs Pete go at it. My money says Pete going to win. Obviously this was very well researched.

More than Spawn vs Ghost Rider I confessed. Spawn shouldn't been given his God form for that episode. End of the day, the long waiting was well worth every minute of it. Also getting the one rematch I always wanted in the same season. This already becoming one of my favorite seasons to date. I'm so glad Wile vs Tom finally happened!!!

Wile vs Tom might even cause an official crossover with the two working together. Which had happened a few times since then. I always enjoyed their hand drawn fights. Usually some of my absolute favorite fights. I'll name another famous example to prevent repetitiveness. Samurai Jack vs Afro Samurai a true classic in every sense of the word.

Also considering both characters dates back to the 1940s!!! They really had their work cut out for em research wise. Not only that, there's no bad moments at all. Literately every two to three seconds something interesting comes up. You can't help but either listen or see stuff while watching the episode. Again the editing was quite impressive.

I would give this particular episode a perfect score of 10. It truly deserves that ranking I couldn't find anything small enough to point out that could affect it's scoring. Virtually everything about the actual Death Battle episode is perfection!!! I highly recommend checking this episode out soon. I hope we get more similar cartoon theme episodes in the near future.

My thoughts on newer Silent Hill F trailers and Silent Hill 1 Remake announcement

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I kept a close eye on Silent Hill series since Silent Hill: The Short Message showed up. Konami allowing several companies to make Silent Hill games. I previously criticized Silent Hill 2 Remake before it's release. Sometimes it's difficult to not judge things. Especially when your standards for some things being so high.

I wanna discuss the newer trailers of the upcoming Silent Hill F. They also confirmed Silent Hill 1 Remake by the same team responsible for SH2 Remake. I figured to composite all my SH thoughts together. Silent Hill always viewed as Resident Evil's biggest rival. Of course, I had to pay attention to it's main competition.

Silent Hill F is a dramatically different take on the concept. Previously a few Silent Hill games like Silent Hill: Homecoming had the same fog came to a nearby town. Instead we're getting full on Japanese style horror. Which can get quite freaky for those that haven't seen much of those horror movies. The Rings series is the US counterpart to Ringu series in Japan.

Which possibly inspired SH4 to a degree. It's a little weird how Silent Hill set up it's main series. This will quickly get confusing as a fair warning. Up to SH4 it's very straight forward. Considering that's the entire original SH series by Team Silent before they disbanded. Then Konami allowed other companies to make Silent Hill games.

This is where the monkey wrench gets thrown. Silent Hill: Origins is a prequel to the original Silent Hill. Silent Hill: Homecoming aka SH5 has a cameo of Origins' protagonist. Silent Hill more commonly does rather loose connections between the games. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is a retelling of the original Silent Hill set in an alternate universe.

Silent Hill: Downpour aka SH6 release the same year as Resident Evil 6 funny enough. Directly following that is Silent Hill 2 Remake. Currently awaiting for Silent Hill F's release. This also makes comparing to Resident Evil more confusing. I'll give an example you have the choose between Origins or Homecoming to compare to RE5.

Origins because it was the fifth entry released. But Homecoming actually was essentially Silent Hill 5. I guess it's up to your views which you wanna compare here. Especially Resident Evil considers it's remake series as it's own lineup of games. You also gotta consider the upcoming Silent Hill 1 Remake as well. Which further makes comparing the first entries more confusing.

Personally keep the original versions by themselves. Do the same with the newer remake versions. This should help somewhat with the confusion you may experience. Now I got all of that off my chest I'll finally discuss these two upcoming Silent Hill games. We went a notable long time with little to go regarding Silent Hill F.

The big thing being the same company responsible for two online multiplayer RE games making it. Just going by the original trailer among the freakiest Silent Hill games I ever seen!!! More recently more trailers showed up. You can tell they took their sweet time to get this to be right. This should be essentially Silent Hill 7.

Which indirectly adds salt to those who loved P.T. a lot. This was a famous canceled SH game demo that had Norman Reedus. You know the actor famous playing Daryl Dixon in The Walking Dead shows!!! Sadly Kojima was arguing heavily with Konami. Which directly affected Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain in the long run.

This game kept reminding heavily of Hell's Paradise. Which also involve plants being used similar to this. This was meant to reboot the concept of the franchise. I will give em some credit this wasn't what I was expecting. It's quite risky to directly focus on Japanese style horror outside of Japan. Then again considering all the risks indie developers doing in horror video games.

I could say this has just as much of a chance as many of those horror games. I don't think it's going to be better than SH2 Remake though. It does have a shot being among the best SH games. Personally the game makes me feel uncomfortable. Which is a great sign of what could be a good horror game. I also gotta say this SH game looks absolutely amazing!!!

I'm also glad this going to be vastly different from the other Silent Hill games. It's a huge risk let's get that out the way. At the same time, this franchise desperately needed something quite different. Something to get people's attention again. I strongly felt this was a rather interesting direction to go in. A few months from now this SH game finally getting released.

Although if it were to get delayed. Things could start to fall apart for the SH game. I'm also hoping Konami doesn't act like Konami about it either. They desperately wanna rip people off. They do also have an casino business. A major reason why I'm more funny about considering to play this or not. I do think this SH game could be a surprise hit.

Not to be rude I rather directly discuss SH1 Remake. Before I do though I must apologize to SH2 Remake. I actually watched someone I moderated on Twitch played a few playthroughs of it. My friend never played the original SH2 game to clarify. I was quite blown away by this remake. This even surpassed most RE remakes for that matter.

Obviously any is better than RE3 Remake that's no surprise. But the fact it's actually superior to some of them is rather quite impressive. GOG earlier this year gotten this version onto their service. I can tell Bloober are huge SH fans indeed. It's interesting they decided to remake SH2 first. Although SH2 is more of it's own thing like some entries.

The rest of them are directly connected. I will confessed I played SH1 through an unofficial PC port. I actually played through it twice when I had the chance years ago. I was quite impressed by the PS1 horror game. I still prefer SH2 and SH3 more though. Bloober is carefully expanding things while keeping it true to the original SH games.

If this ends up being an success. A lot of people including myself knows SH3 right around the corner. Which was a direct sequel to SH1. In fact on GOG's Wishlist, one of my most upvoted comments actually on Silent Hill 3's page. Silent Hill 3 always meant a lot to me. There's a chance they might change some ending conditions or add in more endings.

The original version already has five endings. Personally UFO Ending my favorite among em. I do think this going to be vastly different from the original version as well as Shattered Memories version. Of course, some people also going to directly compare the original live action SH movie. Which was directly based on the original Silent Hill game.

For those that doesn't know the story without major spoilers. Harry with his daughter Cheryl came to the mysterious town of Silent Hill. Suddenly the little girl goes missing leading to her dad start searching around for her. Team Silent paid close attention to several aspects of the original Resident Evil.

Which is exactly what led to this rivalry. It's virtually like comparing apples to oranges. We all can agree both are fruits but also vastly different in plenty of ways as well. Resident Evil is more physical while Silent Hill always been more directly mental. Let's be honest, Capcom lucky Konami didn't sue over Shadows of Rose DLC just saying.

There's also a chance some new bosses could get added in. Hidden weapons wise, some of them needs to be revamped to a degree. I'm already exciting a ridiculous price for just the game itself. Silent Hill 1 Remake should terrified the world not become a laughing stock of the franchise. I'm very sure those that played SH2 Remake going in with ridiculously high standards for this too.

End of the day, they are just thankful to bring these classics in a way that's rather refreshing. Virtually giving em new life for newer SH fans to experience. I can't even imagine how Bloober would go about remaking SH4 for that matter. I'm still deeply impressed they made a superior version of SH2 I said it!!! SH2 in particular always been my favorite SH game.

If Bloober gets exactly what they need. We're about to get another home run!!! You also gotta consider they are remaking an late 90s PS1 game. Some people might be a little too unrealistic about how to go about such a thing. My main concern is this remake remains faithful to the original version. If it doesn't do that I simply don't care anymore about the game.

Silent Hill used to have these rather unique views on things. Several cut scenes after you realize additional stuff. You realize how truly deep everything in the earlier SH games is. Which I hope continues through this newer version as well. Silent Hill 1 Remake still has a shot in many ways. I don't personally expect it to be better than SH2 Remake.

I do think by default it's better than majority of the franchise. Especially with the increase care SH2 Remake gotten. Clearly Bloober understood what Team Silent done. Konami doesn't even understand what their own franchise is. At least they were willing to allow other developers a try. Partly they're more focus on their casino business.

I'm just thankful some of these horror games coming back. You don't know torture until you play Silent Hill HD Collection on Xbox consoles. Which never gotten fixed by the way good luck with that lol. I also think they will make several locations stand out more. If I could name a particular location I really want that treatment for.

The same location gotten added into Dead by Daylight. The famous school needs a lot of stuff to truly stand out. Obviously they don't have to do much about the hospital. No one felt comfortable while exploring that place in any SH games lol. They also got a rather unique boss fight that plays into the multiple endings as a condition.

For those not familiar with the game. The police officer Cybil gets possessed later on. You are given a choice to save her life or take it? Just know you may have to look up how to save her life. This is essentially a precursor to bosses like Eddie in SH2. I loved they went for such a concept. Especially for the first entry in a survival horror franchise.

There's also depending on conditions one of two final bosses you could face for most of the endings. Indirectly Silent Hill 2 done that to a degree. But these are vastly different bosses in comparison. Which makes more curious to see how Bloober goes about that concept. For all we know they might even add on a third final boss.

You can tell I got high expectations for this remake. I'm expecting possibly mid 2027 for it's release. Which also helps them planning out SH3 Remake with the additional time. I rather they have all the time they need than rushing em to finish poor remakes of classic survival horror games. Well that's my thoughts on many Silent Hill stuff I hope you enjoyed.

My thoughts on Resident Evil: Requiem trailer

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, oh okay you knew I also had to talk about Resident Evil: Requiem trailer. I actually found out the day after it's announced. I do like starting with Resident Evil Village. People knew these going to be main numbered entries. There's some huge surprises in this trailer a lot of people discussing right now.

I found out days later this FBI lady you play as actually the daughter of Alyssa from Resident Evil Outbreak series. In Resident Evil 7, there's an newspaper reference to her. Further confirming those were canon spin off games. They also occurred within the events of Raccoon City. For those new to the series Resident Evil 2 and 3: Nemesis respectively.

Speaking of Raccoon City, we finally get to see the damaged city years later. Which I didn't think Capcom ever going to do. This was one of a few cities in the main Resident Evil timeline destroyed by an viral outbreak. Not to mention that joke in a Robot Chicken sketch with Yoshi lol. They also confirmed she's getting pursue by a monster.

This is becoming a recurring theme in the series. Personally it's not one I'm a huge fan of myself. Although I do get why some people enjoys it. Especially those obsessed with Lady Dimitrescu. I'm quite excited to explore Raccoon City once again. I also know some people quickly jump onto saying it's Capcom attempting Fallout.

Fallout as in the famous Bethesda game series. They already in an sense done that a few ways. Resident Evil: Extinction with parts of the later RE movies done that. They also done it in the future portions of the canceled live action RE Netflix show. Although Bert Wesker gave a great point about infinite breadsticks lol.

The fact we get to play as an FBI agent is a little difference. Previously we got to play as Leon whose an government agent. I won't be surprise if BSAA shows up. In fact, some characters you play as in Resident Evil 6 were government agents. Usually these main RE games are quite amazing. I'm already very hyped to play this next year.

I also noticed the layout of the Police Station was more directly taken from the remakes. Indirectly that's stating those versions replaced the classic ones. It's true some changes were meant to better tie in with the later story stuff. I personally felt they should've kept the layout to the original design. I don't even think it's a matter of limitations with the engine either.

We may get something regarding the Outbreak characters as well. The assumption is all of them died during that incident. A huge if Daniel from Resident Evil: Resistance shows up would be a nice surprise. The game already looks great to begin with. Maybe Billy Coen from Resident Evil 0 returns as well. There's a few possibilities they could explore.

I don't think they're going to have Jake meet his aunt whose now in control of Natalia's body yet. Although that's inevitably going to happen. Considering how long this franchise been going for. You start to wonder when Capcom might reboot the main RE timeline. How much further can they go before they have to start over?

You also can tell a lot of people that worked on Resident Evil 7 and Village came back for this. This should be among the most wanted games of 2026 for a lot of people. Resident Evil always delivers a truly unforgettable experience. For a long time, Resident Evil constantly been one of Capcom's highest grossing video game franchises.

I highly doubt they do anything further with Rose Winters. Also considering they rushed out the conclusion to that story arc. I do think there could be some good references to be made though. It also would make sense to start another viral incident at a damaged city. Whoever would consider checking such a location in the first place?

I don't even think Albert Wesker would've done that. Resident Evil: Requiem seems like an interesting entry for how little they shown. I also know some bias people going to say something on the lines of. "Oh how original they going back to Raccoon City!!!" Maybe this is what the franchise needed. Sure a lot of spin off games took place there I can't argue that.

What I can argue with though is there's a great reason we simply don't know why we're exploring it again. Let's take Resident Evil 5 for an example. We found out about the Ebola Virus that inspired the creation of a few viruses from Umbrella Corporation. In some ways more back story getting explored. Even in Village, Spencer was mentored by Miranda.

It's possible not everything was finished. Let's be honest the trailer confirms something on the lines of that. I do wanna say how much of the damaged city we get to explore. I do expect more of a variety of enemies than Resident Evil 7. They even could bring some classic RE monsters back unexpectedly. Like a few hunters or crimson heads for that matter.

It's going to be a home run unlike Dead Rising 4. Which attempted to take things back where it begun at. Not only that Capcom going to do DLCs to a degree. Let's hope it's an interesting variety. I might have to hold off fully getting the game for a few great reasons. Resident Evil: Requiem about to open a huge can of worms!!!

My thoughts on Felt That Boxing

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, here's another game announced I had to discuss. A lot of people were blown away during the 1st watch. I know it's not often I talk about sports game. I do recall playing a few boxing games to a degree. The game in question is called Felt That Boxing. I watched this trailer a few times including right before I wrote this.

It's an indie boxing game with Muppet style characters. The actual visuals is what everyone so surprised by. This game looks absolutely amazing!!! They do show some of the game play it's quite impressive stuff. It actually looks realistic well everything else around the characters I meant. This also meant to be a parody boxing game.

I can tell some of the dialogue for your manager inspired by Rick & Morty show. I already wanna play Leftovers KO! soon. I am even considering if I can get both of them in one go for Steam I would route. I do like we get training sections. I don't want to play an boxing game without it. There's a few good reasons though.

It does bring some variety into the game play. In some boxing games these can help you more in difficult later matches. Not to mention also helps prevents the game play getting too repetitive. Obviously they got a lot of cut scenes. Not everyone going to let those play during an 1st run. It's technically more of it's thing than Leftovers KO! being very inspired by Nintendo's Punch-Out!!

I gotta mention early in the trailer. The way he walks across a bridge priceless lol. The trailer does show us a handful of opponents you'll face in the game. It's difficult to say if this coming out this year or not. Already not expecting this to quickly get onto GOG like Leftovers KO! previously done. You could pretend it's an Muppets boxing game.

"Yeah I wanna know Kermit the hell out!!!" "Also Missy Piggy it's about time you go down bitch!!!" Some of you knew I had to do that Muppets joke lol. The story is this guy wants to save his orphanage. He decides to join an boxing tournament to use the prize money to save the orphanage. I don't know if The Three Stooges were inspiration for that or not.

Felt That Boxing seems like it's going to be an fun boxing game. Boxing has plenty of differences from wrestling you watch on TV or streaming services. Although both of them requires the same style ring for matches to take places in. Unless in wrestling's case a few particular matches occurs. I also noticed we don't get to see much of Ezra's personality.

Which I felt was a good move because keeping that a huge surprise is a good idea. If they reveal too early how he's actually like. Some people may get uninterested in playing the game. Sadly we live in a world where so many gamers are rather entitled with ridiculous standards. Then again it's thanks to games like this.

There's still some life left in gaming. Indie developers are truly amazing in recent years. Also the fact I'm seeing more actual creativity than in video games developed by bigger game companies. I do think this boxing game going to blow people away. Especially going by that trailer a lot of people are quite interested.

The fact they are using puppets of that style for such an sports video game is quite impressive. I also hope this gets on Xbox consoles as well. I do think we need more of a variety among some sports within video games. Eventually you'll find something interesting to you. Even if it's a rather unexpected take on the concept.

Felt That Boxing seems promising from that trailer. I felt the best boxing video game experience I had was through Wii Sports. I do think this may have a chance. My main concern is balancing of the difficulties. Also a practice mode for training sections could help a lot as well. In all honestly, this boxing game should be a fun time!!!

My thoughts on Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I just got home from a long drive. Early into my vacation seeing my parents. A particular compilation game was announced. By now everyone is talking about it all over the internet. Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection, I didn't expect this to happen. I wanna cover a lot of interesting topics related to this I kept thinking a lot about.

Excluding additional versions we got eight Mortal Kombat games with more to be announced. It's technically six games with a few versions of Mortal Kombat 3. I'm surprised Mortal Kombat Advance a famous bad version of UMK3 from Game Boy Advance coming back. I was more of an MKII person myself.

If it weren't for two of the announced MK games. I originally was going to say they cover up to MK4. However they also including two GBA versions of Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance. Which was rather interesting because it implies we may get the actual console version or not. If we do you could also expect Mortal Kombat: Deception and Mortal Kombat: Armageddon as well.

From Deadly Alliance the franchise left Arcades to directly focus on game console market. These 3D MK games are packed with content to keep you busy for hours. I highly doubt Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe going to show up. It technically an out of place spin off crossover game. It's failure along with DC regretting how they handled the game led to Injustice series.

You also would need a disc to play that crossover game on newer Xbox consoles. They already confirmed Mortal Kombat (2011 game) aka MK9 not included. The big issue is very early on it's Story Mode. We get to see how the original MK timeline ends. But Raiden prior to his defeat sent visions to his past self to alter the future.

It's essentially an altered retelling of the first three MK games. Not to mention depending on platform has one or two guest characters. I don't think WB Games going to go through the trouble getting them both again. I'm actually fine it's not included in this upcoming compilation MK game. Considering this could be MK 1-7 plus more MK games in one huge kollection.

Mortal Kombat series was a notable fighting game franchise in my life. In some form I'm usually playing a lot of these MK games. Minus MK1 which I still strongly dislike. I may not support the future of the franchise. I always be thankful for it's past. Obviously this is going to bring back a lot of memories.

Also knowing they are doing the unique behind the scenes Digital Eclipse done in a few compilation games. You can expect a ridiculous amount of surprises. They also confirmed to simplify some secrets. It would be nice to finally face MK1 Reptile. I previously owned Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection years ago.

It's safe to say just from that announcement trailer it's already topped. Some of their compilation games are rather ambitious in many ways. This could be seen as a lot of people's dream MK game. In my mind it's about time Mortal Kombat gets it's turn. Especially considering they previously done Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Edition.

Again going by that trailer this way better as well. Then again I always supported MK over SF for a long time. Who would thought going on vacation this came out of no where? This is among my most wanted right now I'm not kidding!!! This could even end up as my 2025 Game of the Year. I do think this is going to be absolutely mind blowing pun very intended lol.

I still got to talk about what other MK games I think possibly included. There were four particular MK games I kept coming back to. I am well aware two of these are bad MK games. Mortal Kombat: Special Forces is often in debates for the absolute worst MK game ever!!! It's a famous bad spin off game with a rough development cycle.

Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero was the original MK spin off game. A small concept on PS1 version was meant to get people ready for MK4. This actually took place before the original MK. You play as the original Sub-Zero taking on Gods. It's a curious piece of MK history than anything else. Mortal Kombat Gold is one I see a lot of people throwing out.

It's an updated version of MK4 on Sega Dreamcast. They basically added a little more of everything. I do think it deserves to be in this kollection as well. The one MK game I felt that must be in there. Mortal Kombat Trilogy virtually everyone saying this game needs to be included. MKT is an second updated version of MK3 with more everything.

Some of which added MK 1 and 2 content respectively. This is the most complete MK3 experience. Personally they should aim for PC version that's on GOG. PS1 version's load times can differ to a degree. You won't have that issue in the PC version. Despite being a victim of the famous difficulty glitch.

This MK game really packed with great stuff. It's critical for this kollection to have that in there!!! I know some people quickly jumped on. "Oh they are doing this to save themselves." I'm sure most parties really wanted to do this. Regardless of MK1's failure or not. This franchise has plenty of interesting things about it.

If WB Games doesn't rush it out. Like Konami rushed out Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection. I do think this easily going to be among Digital Eclipse's best selling games. This should have plenty of fan service. As close to everything like TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection as inhumanly possible. This should be among the most played MK games ever!!!

It's difficult to say how this going to affect the franchise's future. What I do know for sure is thousands of people going to be over joyed playing this!!! Plenty of the finest MK games with some of the best ports. It's a little weird they didn't confirm Sega Genesis pot of UMK3. At least people that came across my MK meme better understands my point.

These Genesis ports are way better than MK1. I would be surprise if DOS ports of the first three MK games shows up as well. Which I do own em on GOG, some of the best ports I played. In particular DOS port of MK3 by default has better customizable controls. Plus by default infinite continues it's a must play.

Honestly it won't affect much if those DOS ports aren't included. Hell having MK 1-7 in one compilation MK game is enough already. But of course this is Mortal Kombat!!! They had to go much bigger than that. I was happy to see Sega 32X port of MKII in the lineup. Some even say the best Sega port of MKII ever!!!

Another weird MK game missing even if some may consider this being rather minor. Sega CD version of MK1 has some cool changes from the Genesis port. It's virtually an improved Genesis MK1 port. Similar to Sega 32X port is to the Genesis MKII port. Which also had a famous song from the original live action MK movie.

I'm also glad finally another compilation game includes something from Sega Game Gear. Some people are also expecting Game.com version of MKT as well. Which isn't anything to write home at lol. It's debatable if they include that version. It's not on people's radar as the classic handheld ports. There's also a chance we might also get the N64 version of MKT.

Which had a lot of noticeable changes from the PS1 version. I know some MK fans be fine this version got left out. I argue for this to be very true to it's name of being the most komplete MK kollection. They have to include that version as well. In that regard how about Mortal Kombat: Unchained?

It's an updated version of Mortal Kombat: Deception on PSP. Which added two characters previously added in it's GameCube port. Being Shao Kahn and Goro respectively. They add in four more characters that help tie in better with Deadly Alliance. They also added in Endurance as a new Survival Mode.

Survival Mode is an endless endurance of how many people you can beat before you lose. You also can cheat by quickly stage fatality em to a degree. This is the most komplete version of the game. As for Mortal Kombat: Armageddon it's better they go for the Wii version. Not a lot of people know this. In this version, they added Khameleon into a rather huge roster of characters.

Otherwise you aren't missing much by not playing this. Which is sad considering how amazing some of these MK ports are. Not to mention some of the updated versions still among my favorite MK games to date. Maybe how my vision of this concept differs notably from Digital Eclipse's or right on the money?

They could include Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins as a bonus. It's a lesser known tie in MK movie to the original MK movie. Let's talk both Mega Man X Legacy Collection games as an example. They both include a prequel OVA to the first Mega Man X game. Including this animated MK movie finally frees it from being VHS exclusive.

You heard correctly this particular MK movie isn't even rereleased on DVD. But considering a lot of stuff good or bad gotten it to a degree. It further bags the question why the hell not? I really could see the MK team as well as Digital Eclipse team having a lot of fun. They both realize all the insanity they could do to easily spice things up.

There's also a huge chance they may discuss the original live action MK movies. It also demands where they draw the line at. This is meant to help get newer MK fans more into the franchise. At the same time, us older MK fans wants justice in every sense of it's presentation. We expect the usual MK perfection coughs MK1 not that lol.

I always heavily disliked Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Among the first video game movies I didn't like. I had plenty of issues with it. Let's put it this way most MK movies way better than this!!! I could even argue how somehow Game.com version of MKT better as well. I'm not sugar coating how bad this MK movie truly is!!!

I would do 1992-2007 stopping right before the crossover game. I know some could argue including it due to being the final Midway MK game before bankruptcy. To me that MK game kinda there in every sense of the word. Including it could cause some confusion while virtually none doing the opposite.

They may also discuss some of the MK shows of that era. Stick with the original live action MK movie. I also hope they talk about the MK comics as well. I recently during my vacation seen one of the issues in a huge store. There's also people quickly jumping on Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks. Some could view this being a precursor to MK9.

Hard to believe we had the same company responsible for Street Fighter cartoon show. Not any of the Japanese shows for that matter. The famous US cartoon SF cartoon show also made this MK cartoon show. Now let me ask you a question. What do you absolutely love about the franchise? Fatalities well you get virtually none at all.

The violence is so tone down it makes the famous SNES MK1 port seem hardcore!!! Mortal Kombat: Conquest served as a prequel to the games aka timeline 1. At that point in time, MK couldn't properly nail prequels. We had an Sub-Zero game that failed. We also had an Jax game that sucked more so. Now this show not a lot of people remembers.

Indirectly the newer animated MK movies attempted similar concepts years later. They clearly nail sequels continuing the story forward. Somehow trying to tell stories in prequels just doesn't work. Which is incredibly weird for this franchise. Some could easily see how this led to MK11 to a degree. Honestly the MK team learned from some of their big mistakes.

In terms of this spin off MK game is an non canon retelling of Mortal Kombat II. They may remove it's MKII port that's directly pulled from Midway Arcade Treasures 2. I do recall getting up to the later Scorpion boss fight. MK games like this getting into this compilation. "Shut up and take my money!!!"

This was before Mortal Kombat: Armageddon's release. It's currently the best spin off MK game ever!!! It's not a surprise a lot of people missed out playing this!!! Adding online multiplayer to this people won't stop playing it!!! Obviously this is a must for this MK kollection. Digital Eclipse proven with a few compilation games they can handled a lot of platforms with a lot of games.

Atari 50 by itself has over an hundred games with several games added in through DLCs. You also gotta realize some of these not confirmed MK games. Easily has a lot more content than those confirmed within the same kollection. The replay value for this needs to be ridiculously high!!! There's more than enough additional stuff they can discuss.

This needs to be a massive blast of nostalgia. I'm also hoping this gets onto GOG as well like Gex Trilogy surprisingly done recently. Even considering a lot of secrets the franchises widely known for. You already have a lot of reasons to check this out!!! This is going to be the stuff of legends!!! If some of the essential MK games not in there.

I'm likely not going to buy this!!! It's not often I get rather particular games I hope to see in a compilation game. Let's talk Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection for an example. Originally they didn't announced two of the Sega Genesis games. Which made some people either upset or worried like myself.

Thankfully they listened to the fans to include those games. Now I'm also aware that's Limited Run Games that's also responsible for Gex Trilogy. They operate differently from Digital Eclipse in many ways. Ultimately both created an engine to revive classic video games. Right now I'm still quite sold on getting this.

It's depending what the rest of the lineup going to be. Which is going to rather make or break this kollection. Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection needs to hit the ground running or be forgotten. I'm trying to be somewhat open minded about this. At the same time, not having Trilogy, Shaolin Monks and Deception a rather trouble pill to swallow.

Mortal Kombat: Deception always been among my favorite MK games. I even enjoyed Unchained version a lot. I don't even see that being a down grade to the console versions. You virtually get all that content plus a handful more characters. Not to mention easier to access online matches from the PS2 version.

I would be fine they just include Unchained version in the compilation. I strongly felt they won't leave any stones left unturned here. It also would be weird to not include the console version of Deadly Alliance. Some MK fans get upset over that. Again I rather play Deception over Deadly Alliance myself.

A much better take on The Krypt. They even made several aspects of it more interesting. Konquest Mode in particular was my favorite. It's still among my favorite Story Modes they ever done!!! It's not better than MK9's though. I still say it's technically better than the two newer MK game's Story Modes.

I always been somewhat mixed about Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. The short version is Midway should've planned to making it more of then next gen MK game. It barely was that with the final Wii version. It simply had too much content that heavily impacted the game. We're talking over sixty characters in one MK game.

Keep in mind, this was pre-DLC MK era too. Kreate a Fatality was incredibly flawed. Motor Kombat ended up being the best section of the entire game. A Mario Kart style mini game no less is rather pathetic!!! Midway was rushing games out around this point in time. Honestly, my favorite part was always the epic intro cut scene.

You see most of the characters fighting each other. It ends with Shang Tsung trying to reach the top while Blaze appeared was perfection. This was meant to be the end of the original MK timeline. To be quite honest MK11 that threw in multiple timelines was way better. Despite some huge issues I had with the MK game.

Even if all of this were to be included. Someone still not satisfied or people simply against this compilation. Yes there's people heavily against this compilation game from happening. Not because all the finishers featured either. Some felt we don't need this at all. Others felt they were desperate enough to do this compilation game.

Simply going by their previous compilation games. Digital Eclipse usually hits home runs. They believe they are doing this to save the franchise. I personally don't see it that way at all. They are going back to their roots. Just not for the next big MK game. Instead they are revisiting the history of the franchise.

You may learn a great deal you didn't know. Digital Eclipse regularly takes their time to make these amazing compilation games. If any were to come off being rushed that's more by the bigger game companies than anything else. Maybe it's success could led to other franchises WB Games owns to return in some form.

A huge one on my list is Rampage. Just give me an compilation of Rampage series please? I highly doubt some similar fighting games WB Games owns to MK series getting included. Primal Rage, War Gods, Mace: The Dark Age and Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. respectively. It's questionable if they cover these games or even mention em at all!!!

The fact John Tobias came back for this speaks volumes!!! Ed Boon possibly beyond words excited to be involved with this. We're about to get so much MK content we really don't know where to start? Majority of them suppose to have online multiplayer is a nice touch. I can't wait to see the finalized lineup for this compilation game going to be.

I really would love to get this for my birthday later this year. I'm in my mid 30s this would mean so much to me. Mortal Kombat truly deserves such an ambitious compilation game. One worthy of the Elder Gods!!! Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection is going to be something the world still isn't prepare for.

I am not sure if the PS1 ports. In particular MKII or MK3 getting included or not? Same with the remaining Game Gear ports as well. I still haven't discussed other versions of MK4 yet. The PS1 port altered the presentation with cut scenes. Which ended up being somewhat mixed received. The N64 port is among the most popular ports since it stayed true to the original version.

Of course, we gotta talk about MK4 on Game Boy Color!!! Yeah just take a look at this you'll quickly understand why I'm not excited for it. I even felt MK3 on Game Gear from what I seen is better than this!!! The only real reason to include it is connect all the main handheld versions in the same kollection.

I'll be very direct I was the most impressed by Mortal Kombat Unchained. I know some may see me bias because I love Deception so much. Well this is my blog, whatever I say goes!!! Another major factor is don't make some of the necessary MK games paid DLCs. I'll tell you that's going to turn people off from buying this.

People already gotten turned off by both MK11 and MK1 doing similar strategies. Especially for stuff that should've already been in the game free. Who wants to buy particular MK ports? I really don't so why should you? Let's be honest Warner Brothers isn't doing well right now. They kept making huge mistakes costing em billions of dollars!!!

I don't think the success of this kollection going to save em. But what it would do is help renew interest for the Mortal Kombat franchise. Some people going to be very particular which versions should be included. Look you can't win just be thankful whatever you get here. Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection is about to set the world on fire!!!

Simulator games rant

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, currently my last planned blog entry before visiting my family. On and off I been considering if I should write this or not? In more recent years a particular genre title I see in a lot of games is Simulator. You couldn't even believe some of these that actually exists!!! I think that's enough reason to do a rant on em.

I'm sure around 2010s simulator games notably started to show up. You got a lot of them you do expect to be games. Usually the more particular jobs simulator games. A large amount of them being restaurant theme. To clarify I'm only focusing on those with Simulator in the titles. There's a little variety that attempts to be like real life.

I simply love they had to put Simulator in the titles. It kinda comes off like we're that stupid lol. Occasionally you get upgrades that helps makes several aspects a little easier. Either you gotta get as much within a money or slowly finish jobs to get more money. Some of them also offers alternative methods to get money.

Keep in mind, this section focusing on the more realistic, believable simulator games. The real fun begins when I start ranting on the more fun, out there Simulator games. Obviously The Sims series is a famous example that isn't directly called Simulator. At the same time, these games recreate many aspects of real life.

Also expect more indie developers to do similar concept Simulator games. Especially on Steam it's filled with em!!! It's amazing some of the stuff you actually get to do. You actually learn a lot about particular jobs in ways you didn't think was possible. This seems like one of the easiest or among the most tedious genres in gaming.

I say easiest because they usually take time to help you understand what you're doing. Even simulator games you gotta go to make money is friendly enough to help you out. I said tedious because some of them requires surprising levels of perfection. You do have the choice to mostly finish a job or go the extra distance to full complete em?

This also becoming one of those genres. Some developers rush out okay to bad Simulator games. There's also indie developers that truly cares to deliver amazing experiences. You may have to be a little selective which to play. Crime Scene Cleaner which is a simulator game absolutely amazing in what it does.

My best advice to possibly save you money from getting the bad ones. If you have an friend that occasionally plays this style of games. Simply ask them which ones you should play? Also you gotta be more selective about which video game reviewers you wish to trust their opinions on games? Especially the drama in recent years.

The decent reviewers on YouTube usually doesn't tell ya wrong on them. At times they flat out say don't play em which is rare among the more decent reviewers. You know the people that focuses more on decent video games than bad ones. If you played enough of them you can choose to give more of them a try or don't at all?

I know to a degree realism in games turns me off. Some of them makes these jobs worst than they actually are while others somehow makes em a lot of fun. Some of them simply gives you a rather unique perceptive on everything. Maybe you prefer these simulator games or the wackier concept ones instead?

Alright I bet some of ya are dying to know what I gotta say about the more possibly wtf Simulator games right? You can tell some of these exists simply because no one else would do em. Some of which is in all honestly incredibly stupid ideas they just had to do. This goes from weird job simulators to everything else literately!!!

I really do mean everything else you really would be surprise. This or that somehow an actual simulator game you can buy on Steam maybe other platforms. There's a few insult theme simulator games. Not to mention weird animal simulator games. You play as creatures in games capable of truly stupid stuff like Goat Simulator: Remastered.

Some of them cover rather bizarre concepts. Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator, yes this is a real game. A black market for body parts being auditioned across an universe or at least an galaxy. There's a few based on homeless people like Bum Simulator. Some of these no way a big name game company doing em.

A lot of them are in smaller game franchises. I guess a lot of people grew up with role playing. In terms of using their imagination. Sometimes dress up to be particular characters. I'm just saying it kinda explains why so many of these simulator games exists!!! You can search them up a couple pages filled with em I'm not kidding!!!

Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator series allows you to create ridiculous wars for fun. Eventually people going to run out of jobs to recreate. How fair would any of these gaming services allow these companies to go with the concepts? We even have a few crime theme simulators. I'm talking literately enforcing the law as well as breaking it simulator games.

Indirectly Grand Theft Auto series is a major factor why those simulator games exists. There's even Placid Plastic Duck Simulator. Yes a real game you recreate having these plastic ducks in pools. Either this is among the most creative or uninspired video game genres in existence it's up to you. There's even one called Granny Simulator.

I never said these simulator sticked to realism lol. Snail Simulator, even one of the slowest insects in existence gets an simulator game. The simply fact so many of them exists. Virtually means you could make anything into video games!!! Just like horror games, we barely had any of them when I was a kid.

Now I'm in my 30s there's so many of them!!! I easily could fill up any gaming account with em. I mean wow I guess people secretly wants to control everything!!! At least that's the message I'm getting from these games. Seriously someone made Rock Simulator!!! You literately play as a rock wow how creative!!!

There's even Beer Simulator, a weird clicker simulation game you upgrade beer. Even beer gets it's own weird simulator game. WOW Clock Simulator this has to be the most exciting thing ever (sarcasm). Someone even made Achievement Simulator. It's a weird attempt to recreate achievement hunting games.

Something I been doing for a few decades now. OMG you can't be serious, Mayonnaise Simulator!!! All of a sudden I'm recalling Stephen King out of ideas Family Guy joke. Let's not limit to reality here. Breast Simulator is wtf am I looking at kind of game. Even particular stuff you do in private done in simulator games.

Loading Simulator is recreating retro PC era. You know several basic stuff that used to take forever in the 90s as well as early 2000s. Personally I felt stuff like that is simply better left forgotten. As I'm writing this more wow that's an simulator game shows up. By this point Steam writing my own blog post than myself at this point.

Let's say some of these may not even get release on consoles at all. Steam simply accepts majority of games as well as DLCs as soon as it's sent in. For console game companies they first take time to review what's been sent in. They must get approved to show up on their services or they won't. By now a lot of bad Steam game videos making more sense right?

I'm not directly calling this genre bad by any means. There's several indie developers clearly looking to rip people off. I do know several of them wants people to enjoy their games. A lot of them still in Early Access. Just be cautious for any difficulty including possibly game breaking glitches playing them.

I felt the more I searched Steam. The longer this blog entry going to get. I simply want to make a few things clear. There's so many of them it's ridiculous. Even sticking with the more realistic job theme ones. You got many choices which ones to play. But if you're more like me. You probably enjoy the why is this exists? experience more.

I'm also not trying to say those are boring either. I confess some kinda are while others just works. Then you get to the more ridiculous side. You start to wonder how stupid of a concept can they possibly go? Eventually Steam going to openly state that's too stupid we're not doing it!!! Regardless, it's up to you if you have any interest playing any of these simulator games.

Licensed Mario Kart clones rant

Warning this is going to be a lengthy blog entry. Please take as many breaks as humanly possible. Make sure to hit the breaks just right or you'll be sorry!!!

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, within a week I'll be away seeing family for a few weeks. I been considering a rather fun yet interesting video game rant for a little while. Obviously you got popular games that everyone talks about. Eventually other companies attempt to cash in on it's success. In this case I will be looking at licensed Mario Kart clones you may not know about.

I personally haven't played many of them myself. I have played two Crash racing games as well as some Sonic games to a degree. This felt like something I could have fun with discussing. Majority of them aren't great racing games. Along with Mario Party series among the most copy cats of the Mario franchise. By their logic anyone could be in a kart racing game.

To clarify a few things before I get started. Don't expect either NASCAR or Hot Wheels. Everyone knows those gotten racing games. There's virtually no point directly focusing on em. Especially when I wanted to focus on franchises you possibly didn't know done this. It sorta ruins the entire point of this blog entry altogether had I included them.

South Park Rally

It's hard to believe South Park gotten it's own Mario Kart rip off game. The end of the Acclaim South Park trilogy. The game was on a few platforms as usual for Acclaim Entertainment back in the day. The creators were quite busy focusing on the show which was still quite new on television. They mostly approved the game as well as done voice acting.

They later stated to regret allowing those South Park games to get released. What's crazier is this was more meant for adults on a game console. At the target majority of gamers playing it being kids. Not only this barely felt like the show. They somehow made an Mario Kart style game this bad. I grew up with PS1 version myself.

Looney Tunes: Space Race

Considering Death Battle: Tom Cat vs Wile. E. Coyote coming soon. I had to fix in an racing Looney Tunes game. Obviously this makes a lot of sense to make into a game. You got the right cartoon characters fighting against each other during races. Originally released on Dreamcast then a few years later on PlayStation 2.

This also was a brief period where any game on Dreamcast ported to PS2 didn't do well. I would've love to try this Looney Tunes game out. I felt this simply too fun of a idea. Obviously it has potential among these licensed Mario Kart clones. A lot of games came out in recent years. I can only hope this Looney Tunes game returns one day.

Star Wars: Bombad Racing

Yes even Star Wars one of the most popular movie franchises had to do their own rip off of Mario Kart. Let's be honest you got a lot of rememberable characters. You also have some rather cool vehicles as well as weapons. I do see the appeal of this Star Wars game. Then as soon as you see the game all of that suddenly drops.

I won't sugar coat it I know parts of the franchise lends towards children. But maybe they should've went closer to teens instead. At least there it would've gotten more people's attention. A lot of older Star Wars fans simply going to overlook the game. For me this is a hard pass. Not because I'm not a Star Wars fan either.

Burger King PocketBike Racer

Yes even the famous fast food restaurant Burger King got in on the fun. Obviously they are using bikes instead of karts. But you still notice the similarities in the game play. There's a few sports games similar to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series that's not skateboarding. I won't excuse a game simply changing out the vehicles.

This game was given out to kids at their restaurants. It's no surprise the internet eventually learned this Burger King game existed. Also you play as Burger King whose creepy as hell. You can tell simply looking up pictures or videos it's a cheap knock off of Mario Kart series. You sorta tell how rushed out this licensed game is too.

Super Indie Karts

Hard to believe there exists a crossover indie Mario Kart style game. I'm happy about to see the indie developers support each other like this. There's a few franchises with Toejam & Earl among the most famous. Personally I'm more of a Earl person if anyone asked. This is heavily inspired by Super Mario Kart on SNES.

I personally loved when indie developed attempt to recreate retro like this. I actually wanna play this myself. It's currently an Early Access game. You may expect some technical difficulties if any shows up. Otherwise they usually listen to people testing out their games. This gotten onto Steam in 2015 a long time now.

Just pointing out more recently there's an indie Toejam & Earl game. It's directly inspired by the original game that actor Macaulay Culkin supported.

Nicktoon racing games

I easily could've done a handful of their franchises doing this concept. Why not give you all of them at once? This is a licensed Mario Kart clone series. Nickelodeon also done this towards Super Smash Brothers series as well. So many of their shows including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are featured. I know that's a lot to take in right?

Who doesn't love the idea racing as some of your favorite cartoon characters? I don't know how well any of them has done off hand. It's a good way for older Nickelodeon fans to notice. I grew up with a lot of these cartoon shows myself. Obviously this has potential to be a game series. Maybe I wish they would've made it more of their own thing instead of ripping off Mario Kart series.

Disney racing games

There's a few Mickey Mouse racing games by Rare. You know the famous company responsible for some of the greatest Nintendo games in existence. There's also Disney Speedstorm a free to play kart racing game on multiple platforms. Yes even Disney the famous animation company got in on this too.

I should also point out Walt Disney World Quest: Magical Racing Tour as well. Once again you get to race as some of your favorite cartoon characters. They pulled from a lot of their franchises making it a little overwhelming. Even Pirates of the Caribbean an live action movie series got in. I guess Disney will do anything for money!!!

Cartoon Network racing games

This is getting old by now another cartoon network making a few licensed Mario Kart style racing games. I also grew up heavily around a lot of these cartoon shows. Cartoon Network Racing directly ripped off Mario Kart Double Dash. For those that doesn't know this Mario Kart game allows two people in a kart.

They work together to win races. It's more of a team racing game than Team Sonic Racing. Oddly not as many franchises as Disney or Nickelodeon presented. I guess they couldn't put in the money to get more characters. Why kinda explains their current situation lol. Regardless I would play either of these racing games if given the chance.

DreamWorks racing games

Even the famous animation company got in on the fun. This is a more recent Mario Kart style racing game on most platforms. I could've just given you a Shrek racing game. Obviously I had to go much bigger here. Some of your favorite franchises are presented here. This already has a lot of potential to be a fun racing game.

Sadly stuff like this is often rushed a bit resulting in not favorable reviews. Considering this is among the more recent games I'm talking about today that's sad. DreamWorks has a few racing games. I can't say if any are worth checking out since I never played em. They sure don't look great though. To me they easily scream rip off!!!

Charinko Hero

This was exclusive to Japan like many great things. You play as a lot of characters from a few franchises. Mostly Kamen Rider series and Ultra series respectively. This was on GameCube by the same company responsible for the first Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers game on Sega Genesis. This by itself already screams the obvious.

Two franchises widely known for heroes fighting monsters with some destruction involve. Why do this is beyond me? I rather have a different style crossover game you fight against each other. More like War of the Monsters or King of the Monsters series or Godzilla series for that matter. This is for sure among the weirdest licensed Mario Kart clones that I know of.

Crazy Frog Arcade Racer

Somehow this even gotten it's own Mario Kart clone game. I'm not familiar with Crazy Frog myself. I just looked it up to find out it's a weird music style animation character. Often used in songs that goes viral perfect for Tik Tok. This seems like the most random among all the Mario Kart clones I'm covering.

It's almost they had kids that couldn't stop talking about Crazy Frog. They simply had to make an racing game based on em. How do you transform something like this into a racing game? I even seen characters that normally don't work in fighting games somehow do before. I am almost at a loss of words.

The Smurfs racing games

OMG even The Smurfs had to get in on this too. I recalled watching returns of this classic cartoon in the early days of Cartoon Network. They are tiny blue people that's often terrorized by a human man and his dog. This also bags a huge question how exactly could this work as a racing game let alone a few of them?

The Smurfs wasn't like many classic cartoon series that had a lot of stuff to work with. Let's be Inspector Gadget I wouldn't even need to ask questions how that could work here. Somehow more Smurfs racing games kept showing up when at least don't expect em. I rather have a lot of coal in my socking.

LEGO racing games

There's a few racing LEGO games. This is excluding sections within their other games including licensed ones with racing sections. I simply wanna focus directly on racing focus licensed LEGO games. Even one of the biggest toy brands in the world done this as well. It's more than bricks for those not familiar with other stuff you get with em.

I am directly focusing on their racing games not directly based on any licensed franchises. I felt this helps it stand out more. It's not difficult to see how this could work in a game or two. The insane level of creativity with the simple Mario Kart style game play. It simply appeals to people of all ages. It's more normal than Crazy Frog Arcade Racer lol.

M&M's Kart Racing

Yes even the famous candy brand done this too. It really sucks places stopped selling white chocolate M&M's especially the peanut ones. Obviously we are using the commercial characters. Which by itself limits what could be done with em. It just seems like a weird licensed game idea to do. Even going by some classic commercials it's doomed to fail.

Why would you wanna play as candy racing in a game? Then again why any of this for that matter? I also notice barely any of these M&M's games does anything with M&M's Minis!!! Obviously this was another famous cheap knock off. There was no real way this was going to work. It's such an insult to a popular candy brand.

Hello Kitty racing games

Yes even Hello Kitty done this as well. It's a popular brand of cute stuff aimed towards the female audience. You would be surprise how all over the place this franchise is now. It shouldn't even be a surprise they got a few Mario Kart style racing games. In a weird way I do see why they made these. I'm not that familiar with the brand myself.

Thus I don't know if it had enough to justify doing these licensed racing games or not. To me it just seems weird they jumped on that track ripping off Mario Kart series. Especially when they're making enough money not needing to do that. Even as a cat person to a degree this is weird. Somehow Garfield getting racing games making more sense.

Warped Kart Racers

Here's a rather unexpected licensed Mario Kart clone. This is actually a mobile game likely discontinued. You have Family Guy, American Dad!, King of the Hill and Solar Opposites respectively. Four popular cartoon shows that has plenty of stuff to work with. It's just weird something like this gotten release in a rather unexpected way.

Especially considering those cartoon shows. I know some people that would love to play this. Even for a mobile game I mean come on why not? I'm just surprised The Simpsons didn't get in. My favorite out of these shows is American Dad! by far. It's almost like they were too scared to go bigger with the concept.

Digimon Racing

Yes even the famous toy brand gotten it's turn at the wheel. I recalled watching the first three seasons of Digimon a long time ago. I could never expect this Digimon game to exist!!! In a weird way I do see why they had to do this. You got plenty of rememberable creatures. Not to mention some iconic locations.

Bandai now Namco Bandai haven't been kind with the franchise though. I know people quickly jump on calling this an Pokemon rip off. I strongly felt Digimon differs itself enough from that. I would've enjoyed this back in the day too. They even threw in their own twist to the concept. Just weird it's only on Game Boy Advance.

Angry Birds Racing

Angry Birds in what used to be a hit mobile game series before company became selfish pricks. They even jumped in on the fun. Personally this bags too many questions with not enough answers. In majority of Angry Birds games you slingshot birds to take out the pigs. Despite the variety of what birds can do.

It doesn't give enough to work for a kart racing game. This also gotten discontinued I'm glad I didn't play this. By default this sounds like a horrible idea. I rather play a vastly different game altogether. There's virtually no possible way this could work. This simply doomed to fail even before released. I hate to say this franchise going to die out soon due to greed.

Conclusion

Difficult to believe all of this possibly more exists right? Somehow Mario Kart franchise became such an easy cash grab opportunity for many franchises. Obviously I do recommend playing actual Mario Kart games. I also recommend playing Sonic & Sega All-Stas Racing series as well as two versions of Crash Team Racing.

All of those are simply way better than majority of these licensed crap. I don't even wanna entertain the idea what else could possibly do this. It's ridiculous there's already more of these than the actual Mario Kart series. Maybe it's a good thing to be a bit selective which games to play. Why torture yourself playing some of these?

I know YouTubers kept focusing on variations of this topic. Sometimes including original games that's ripping off Mario Kart series as well. I guess time is money for some of these games. Some of these were a bit tough to swallow. It's much easier to not care at all I'll even support that. It's just sad success of a particular Mario spin off series led to this!!!

A lot of them aren't even on Nintendo consoles either. At times there's on as many platforms as possible. Which makes it harder to avoid em. Especially you're about to buy a game or two. Let's go with the digital buying route for this. All of a sudden, one of those clone games shows up. You suddenly get turn off by it.

In all honestly that's how some of these licensed games making me feel. I'm better off with Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled through Game Pass. Which I been playing a lot of recently. Some of them are even harder to accept they exist over those ripping off Mario Party series. Obviously parts of both is worst than you could possibly imagine!!!

You could buy enough of them to kick off starting a new console. Assuming you have the money to do so. A lot of them aren't cheap either. By now you see why I been wanting to do this particular video game rant. It just writes itself at this point. I simply choose a few games. Then looking for more online quickly led to such a long lineup of games to rant on.

At the same time, I don't really gain much by doing this either. I'm just glad I get to vent out how I felt about all of this. The current direction of games is going to possibly led to it's end. They are focusing on too many wrong things to fix it in time. Indirectly licensed games play somewhat into that. End of the day simply living under a rock not knowing any of these is a life worth living!!!