Heylo, everyone! Today I took a look at The Tick on the Sega
Genesis. I'll tell you right now I've never actually watched the show it's
based on... Like, I knew it existed back on Fox when I was a kid, but I just
never really thought it was interesting. From what I've heard, I probably
should've taken a look, or at least look at it now... Maybe sometime! But for
now, I'm supposed to be talking about this game.
Thing is though... I don't want to talk about it. It was not
pleasant, like, at all... To start with, you are greeted in the intro publisher
info stuff with a horrible rendition of the 20th Century Fox theme, and the
music really doesn't get any better. I think it got worse, really. It was
repetitious and horrible to the ears and was just all around terrible!
The gameplay wasn't much better. See, The Tick is a
sidescrolling beat'em up. The kinda thing like Streets of Rage or Fatal Fury.
But it's just as repetitious as the music. In a better game of the genre, you'd
have a wide variety of enemies who might be pretty similar, but at least looked
kinda different! In The Tick, I fought three ninjas. Red ones with swords, Blue
ones with shuriken, and black ones with nunchucks. And the last one didn't even
show up until the third stage! And there were soooo many of them! I'd walk a
few steps, fight like, five ninjas, and then another few steps and another
five! It was just completely tedious! >.<
They did try to change it up every two levels it seemed
like.. Because every other level it seemed like I had to dodge a bajillion projectiles
being thrown at me on rooftops instead of fighting things. And these were
frequent enough that if I weren't careless about it from a lack of caring, I'd
have taken forever to get anywhere! Though I will admit, one thing that was
nice was that when I fell off the buildings, rather than dying as might've
happened in another game, I was taken to a "Subplot" where I had to
fight another one of the famous characters from the franchise! ...I think. Like
I said, I really don't know a thing about The Tick. The downside to this,
though, was that it was always just a simple beat'em up thing, just that they
took more hits than the regular enemies.
But hey, at least the Tick was well animated! Now if only
the rest of the game were, too... This was ultimately my first bitter
experience since starting this blog.
Maybe someone out there likes it, but it's really just not
for me! At least it also served as a reminder that these bitter tastes do
exist. Even if I don't really wanna run into them. :\
Bitter :-X
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