Tag: Kusoge

Japanese term for “shit game.” This tag applies to all reviews of games that could be considered quite bad. Some of these may even win a poop ribbon for their horridness. (Or just because a game annoys me so much.)

Review #1321 – Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Game Boy)

For anyone who cares about such things, there’s a new Star Wars movie coming out today. The first one since the last one whose name I don’t recall. Anyway, we may as well do something Star Warsy because… sure, why not?

But yeah, it’s the other Star Wars on Game Boy that’s based on the other Star Wars on NES… not counting the Star Wars that’s only available in Japan for the Family Computer.

And then, I have to remind myself that Game Boy did get a Return Of The Jedi game… that’s based on the Super Nintendo version.

The Force Is Fubar.

Review #1279 – Valis I (Famicom)

I don’t think I’m spoiling anything here, but this Famicom version was the closest I got to experiencing voluntarily pure misery in playing one of these Valis games. This was one of the very few times where I was thankful for the implementation of save states and rapid-fire add-ons to make this thing slightly less intolerable than it would have been had I played the OG Famicom cart. Absolutely dreadful.

By the way, if you’re keen on playing this, consider using this Valis++ hack that I mentioned once or twice.
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/248/

Review #1269 – Where’s Waldo? (NES)

Wait just a minute, King. This isn’t Portrait Of Ruin. What the hell is this?

Well, I wish that I could say that it’s a swerve and you all fell for it, but no, technical issues prompted me to put the kibosh on the Dominus leftovers and replace them with some dirty and quick. Hence, Part 1 of this endeavor, which covers every wannabe angry reviewer’s low-hanging fruit once they saw ericmansuper’s original video from 19 years ago… I could have held this off for another year and marked as a 20th anniversary celebration, but no, VEGAS has to take a fart during the editing process. Thanks, Shanoa.

Anyway, this one’s a late night special. Another one’s coming later today.

Review #1250 – Hell’s Kitchen: The Game: Le Jeu (Wii)

You would think that a Gordon Ramsay-endorsed video game with voice bytes from the man himself would be an exciting proposition… but alas, it turned out to NOT be the case. As such, rather than being treated as something with pomp, circumstance, pyro, ballyhoo, and whatever hyper hyperbole terms you wish to apply, this is just the usual video review effort that every other game gets.

In other words, keep your expectations exceedingly low and you’ll be fine… much like today’s subject matter, strangely enough.

Actually, I’m glad I held off on the Tuesday upload because a recent session of play actually highlighted a couple more points that were added just before the rendering process. The end result was something that turned a subpar seven minute review into a slightly more par ten minute review.

Review #1240 – Nickelodeon GUTS (Super NES)

Do you have it? ‘Cuz I sure don’t.

For those keeping count, this is the 100th video review done this year. And to celebrate the occasion, we have a rush job video that I was going to save for a rainy day, but alas, I had an opening and most of the other stuff isn’t ready.

For what it’s worth, the Halloween Week is planned out and somewhat ready to go.