Heylo, everyone!
I think I've mentioned 'ugly games' in the past... Well,
sorta. I know I called a game ugly at least once! I feel like I should explain
what I think of with an ugly game. Because WCW Super Brawl Wrestling is the
ugliest game I've seen in a while.
See, when it comes to gaming before polygons were the big
thing, I've always found that the one thing a game company could do that would
guarantee them an "ugly" spot is to try to do something that is
beyond the normal realms of the console. Like with King's Quest V earlier, the
game was clearly developed for a computer that was stronger than the NES and so
everything has a weird ugly color to them. Maybe if you didn't know that King's
Quest V was on the PC at all, then you could maybe look past it but as soon as
you see and hear what the game is supposed to be like...yeeeaaaaah...
This game takes another route, that is still the same sorta
"Too big for the console" kinda thing. Up until you actually start
playing the game, everything is trying to be just plain photos of the
wrestlers. Like, in the character select screen! You have 12 wrestlers to
choose from, but they are all peach-ish brown-ish blobs that move around,
sometimes call out a catchphrase or something (I assume... I've never really
paid much attention to wrestling, especially not back in 1994!) and it just
really doesn't look very good at all. The menus prior to this also had photos
of certain moments in wrestling and are equally 'off' in color, and ugly and
yeah... The actual sprites in the game weren't very appealing either, though
some of the moves were decently animated.
It also doesn't help that the only music in the game is the
title music. It's okay, but there's nothing memorable about it at all... I
guess maybe it's the WCW theme song from the time? I really don't know... But
it doesn't really matter that much anyway because as soon as you get to the
first menu, all music stops! All you get is the sound of the cursor moving, and
the sound of the 'catchphrases' on the character select... During the wrestling
match itself you just get sound effects, the occasional commentator quote, and
the ambient noise that sounds kinda like static of the crowd cheering.
I'd..really rather not go into the gameplay.. Well, for one
this post is getting kinda long.. ^.^; But it's also because the only real way
to play the game seemed to be to just kinda mash buttons and hope you're doing
something right! It would've been nice if I could've figured out how to do a
signature move as well, but..yeah.
The overall experience was just really not pleasant at
all... I'm sure there are much better wrestling games out there, even for the
SNES!
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