20 Day Video Game Challenge - Day 20: A game that truly scared you

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I can’t really think of one I’ve played recently, but I can think of one I’ve played when I was young.

And that game is Pokémon Battle Revolution!

I used to play it a lot as a kid, I thought it was cool to see your carefully trained Pokémon battle it out on the big screen, and the game was really fun. But now that I’m older, I’ve realized how bad it is. I now think the battles are repetitive and the last time I played, it wasn’t as fun as it used to be. I’m glad I don’t like the side games and spin-offs of Pokémon as much as I used to nowadays!
 
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Tonic Trouble

I had of fun with this when I was a kid, but looking back on it now, it kinda sucks. But despite the quirky camera and bad controls, it still managed to be somewhat enjoyable.
 
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I think I will have to go with Sonic R.

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This game is basically a Sonic game, and unlike many other Sonic racing games, the characters race on foot with some driving vehicles, namely Amy and Eggman. So why did I put this game in the "bad" category? It's because the game is quite unbalanced. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles are characters that can hold their own against others, but Amy and Eggman have trouble catching up because of their slowness. That's not all: the other unlockable characters are of a better performance compared to the initial five that choosing the initial five against the others is putting yourself at a handicap. Seriously: Super Sonic is the best character that only Metal Sonic and Metal Knuckles have the best chance in competing.

One thing that I was wowed by this game was that each race course is very elaborate like a 3D platformer level since it has many branching paths (except the last one) and the scenery is somewhat detailed for its time. However, there were also only 5 courses, which made me impressed by Super Mario Kart for having 20 tracks even though several of them share a theme with others. The game at least put the elaborate courses to good use by having a "find 5 balloons" mode, so that's pretty good.

So why is this game still great in some form? Easy: the music. Every piece of this game's songs are top notch, and this is pretty much the game's saving grace. The developer was concerned that not everybody would love it, but the general consensus now is that this is the best thing about Sonic R. Super Sonic Racing is the most noteworthy track that it's even made it to Smash Bros. and even Sonic Generations! Though with that said, I like this one too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTyRWTpMyd8

Thank you for reading.
 
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Sonic X for Leapster. It defined my childhood before I was introduced to real games on the Wii, and as such I have quite a bit of nostalgia for it, but outside of nostalgia I really have no reason to play it anymore, being an edutainment game intended for 5-year-olds and all.
 
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winstein said:
I think I will have to go with Sonic R.
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oh man this is my answer as well, and for basically the same reasoning as you have
the only other thing i have to add onto that is that, despite the playable character roster being terribly unbalanced, i love the idea of having different characters with different abilities and being able to go a different path depending on who you use, like being able to use knuckles and glide waaaaay off the normal path of the track and basically take a huge shortcut that characters like sonic can't use. it makes me wish that character-based non-car racing games were more of a thing
 
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My pick for this is Ride to Hell: Retribution. It's essentially a game that's so atrocious that it's hilarious.

I've never played the game itself, thankfully, and I just got most of my information of it from reviews, but it's so hilariously inept at everything it tries to do that you just can't help but laugh at it. Even when it has atrocious sex scenes with females that you rescue as rewards from killing a bad guy. The combat is derp, shooting is abysmal, and the driving sections are Big Rigs -esque. Voice acting is one of the worst ever in video games. There's a part of the game where how the protagonist deals with an electric fence obstructing his path by stealing a truck, driving it quite a bit of distance, and then blowing up an electrical power plant. The weirdest part of this game is is that it's functional garbage. Crashes and unplayable states don't occur all that much and it's quite a long game too, yet somehow the game is still playable.

It's essentially a perfect type of game to just laugh at it all the way through.

ProJared has summed it up quite nicely in his review of the game, though Angry Joe does a much more through takedown of it. Though I'll just let this We Broke video take care of it for its straightforward badness.

 
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1. Etrian Odyssey Untold. I was on holidays without internet at the time which probably helped give it a lasting impression, I had to figure out everything on my own. I feel like I never give myself the chance to do that these days or at least it's the only game that I've played completely blind that wasn't easy or held my hand so it actually had an impact.2. Estelle Bright in Trails in the Sky. Shit dude, if anybody plays this series and doesn't love her by the end then they're dead inside. I still don't really understand how they handled having a female protagonist so well, it's just a slow progression over two games from a one dimensional dumbass tomboy into a fully emotionally developed character influenced by and influencing the rest of the cast. and it worked so well. Too bad Falcom has found out male mc harem shit sells better.3. Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity. I feel like this whole game is low quality, gimmick races with some shitty side missions to pad out the game and re-used assets to double the track count. I played the fuck out of it though and really enjoyed it. I even played it again this year and still enjoyed it, though it was just to scratch a random itch to see what the game was like now that I'm older.
 
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The best (or worst) video game I can think of in this section has to be Superman 64. I never played the game, and believe me, I do not want to. But from the footage I saw, it's pretty hilarious to see the game glitching and seeing how poorly made the game was: The city is completely empty, the controls are really clunky (never played it but from the footage I've seen, literally no-one is good at the game) and it can't be taken seriously.

I could have gone with ET, which can hardly be called a game, but it looks really boring and I only look at 5 seconds of gameplay before getting bored and stop watching the video about that game.
 
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I thought about saying Mario Party Advance for this one, but then I realized that it's not exactly good because it's bad. Its an awful game to give the Mario Party title to and it's altogether middling, but it has its charming moments and was creative enough to come up with some new characters and find use for old ones at the time. Plus, the Gaddgets are at least occasionally entertaining and most of the minigames are good.


But, more to the question, I'd have to go with Sonic Adventure 2, which I've played on the Gamecube. It's not without issue or oddities, but it all comes together to have some level of, as TVTropes might put it, "narm charm." Its flaws tend to be of the more charmingly bad variety. Not to mention it has the Chao Garden, which can occasionally draw you back to the game after a break to work on it for a few hours or so.
 
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For 2, I'm undecided. It's either Starlow, Princess Peach, Princess Zelda, or Wendy (Koopaling). They all look like good females to chose as a favorite.

For 3,
Miki Hoshii said:
3. Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity. I feel like this whole game is low quality, gimmick races with some *bleep*ty side missions to pad out the game and re-used assets to double the track count. I played the *bleep* out of it though and really enjoyed it. I even played it again this year and still enjoyed it, though it was just to scratch a random itch to see what the game was like now that I'm older.
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Hmm... Yeah. That is a bad game that is good. It took me a bit to get the control down, but once I did I liked the gameplay. Although, I believe I still have some trouble. But, I like those tracks and they are very different from the regulars.