Viewtiful Joe (GC)
Played November ?-27, 2004
So, I've been reviewing great games that were enjoyable for me, but then this game came along.....and frustrated me throughout the entirety I played this game! Here's the review:

Average game time to beat= 5-6 hours

Gameplay-6: Some of it was fun, some of it was plain stupid. The puzzles were easy and dull. About 95% of the game is fighting....the rest of it is running through rooms. Plainly, this will go in the fighting section, but the big problem is that this is in a 2-D world, so it's basically flat......I know, sounds stupid.

Graphics-7: The graphics aren't bad, but they aren't stunning, and they don't have any CGI scenes, or any special scenes in that matter.....

Audio-5: Okay music, gets a little annoying after awhile, and the voice-overs are between okay and crap....."Henshin-a-go-go-baby!"

Storyline-2: This has to be one of the crappiest plots I've ever seen in a video game...Joe and Sylvia go to the movies, Sylvia gets abducted by a thing in the movie, Joe runs into movie to find Sylvia, Joe gets superpowers from old superhero, Joe fights villians and goes to other anonymous areas to try and rescue Sylvia, and Joe rescues Sylvia.........RETARDED!

Fighting-8: This is the best part of the game during boss fights. The fighting in this game is basically like Power Rangers, where you're in a 2-D world with time travel and zoom-in powers. In Slow-Mo, you can't get hurt at all by anything besides fire, although it drains VFX (the stuff you need to use Joe's "powers"). In Super-Speed, Joe runs very fast, attacks very fast, and when upgraded, displays more Joes on the screen to attack (and if Joe uses it enough on one target, Joe catches on fire to do fire damage)! While Zooming, Joe does more damage and displays different techniques to damage foes. Although this all sounds good, the game does contain fighting flaws. It gets very repetitive, very fast. Also, the boss fights can be very difficult and frustrating when you can't figure out what to do. Still, this game was fun when pounding on the enemies with different styles of fighting.

Score: 5.5/10

My first bad game review.....wasn't so much fun. This game had potential with the fighting, but failed in other categories such as the STORY! There's going to be a sequel to this game, and that will be one game sequel I'm not looking forward to this year...
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