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| Year: 1996 -- Developer: Natsume -- Publisher: Bandai |
From across the room:
Considering all of the other games we've been playing didn't have demo screens, we didn't even wait for this one to find out. Let's just get it started. We are expecting something between Mario Kart and Battle Cars.. but with Power Rangers.. but since it's Zeo, no putties :(
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Played for: 20 minutes
Hit it or Quit it?
Putties wouldn't have really made this game any better. It turned out to be a scary close rip-off of Mario Kart. Most of the same modes, tracks looked similar, even some of the sounds were very close. For being so late in the SNES life, I kind of had hoped for this to somehow be awesome. Unfortunately, it was just generic and same-y. It might have even been better if it wasn't Power Rangers. There was no reason for it to have been Power Rangers.. but I guess that's what happens when you try to put a franchise on top of something totally unrelated like a battle racing game.
Considering how awesome Mario Kart got later, making the original suck, I'd still rather just go play that. Quit it.
What's kinda funny about this too is at the time, you could've said the same thing about Mario Kart! They tried to put a franchise on top of something totally unrelated like a battle racing game. The real distinction is simply that Mario Kart had a good team of developers behind it! I mean, even if the original is, last I tried it at least, aggravating to play and kinda boring compared to later entries, it was still a pretty good game for the time!
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