Poll of the Day > Pick the game I try to finish next..

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Just finished Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Gen) -- 3/10 based solely on single player. It took me less than an hour to beat it on the default difficulty. Then I beat it with all 6 rangers, sticking with the same ranger for every fight.

I'm not a big fighting game fan, so I don't have a whole lot to compare this to, but this just seems like one of the lower quality ones out there. The hit boxes are horrible. I would slash through the entire enemy sprite and not hit it, while getting hit when I was quite a ways away from the enemy's weapon. I guess once a move is initiated, that character cannot be hit. But not always. Being in midair seems to be a pretty safe spot.

The game is extremely short, as evidenced by my beating it in less than an hour when I'd never played it before, with only 5 stages (the manual scan I found online says there's 7 stages), each with two different battles -- one as a ranger, one as a zord. Each battle is a single round, as opposed to best of 3, which is standard from the small number of fighting games I've played. Basically you fight one of Rita Repulsa's baddies, and after defeating it, it grows to where you need to fight it as a zord. You get infinite continues.

It is a kinda nice change in that you don't pick one ranger to play through the entire game, but rather choose any of the 5 or 6 at your disposal for each battle. After defeating the brainwashed Green Ranger in the 2nd stage, you can use him from then on. If you use him, you'll use the Dragonzord for the zord battle, rather than the Megazord you get for the other 5 rangers. Each character only has 3 or 4 special moves, so it's easy to memorize all the moves, although it does get a bit monotonous. While I don't like the crazy amount of moves in things like Mortal Kombat, this is just too few.

I never watched the show (beyond part of a episode or two to see what all the hullabaloo was about), so there was no "cool" factor of being able to fight as rangers or zords, which I'm guessing was a big draw for this game.
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I had forgotten to include SMT: Nocturne in my last poll. It came in 2nd in the previous one.
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I thought jungle strike went down as a forgotten game.... I'm glad someone still remembers it. It's all right, I used to play it when I was like 7 years old.

minervo posted...

I thought jungle strike went down as a forgotten game.... I'm glad someone still remembers it. It's all right, I used to play it when I was like 7 years old.

A roommate left it behind, and after about 20 years, I still have yet to play it. Desert Strike turned me off back then (the lack of music during the missions really bugged me), so I didn't have any desire to play Jungle Strike. I finally got around to beating Desert Strike late last year. Over the years, I've picked up all the games in the franchise.
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original white ranger is coolest. talking tiger sword ftw
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As much as I would love to vote for Cosmic Fantasy 2 again, I would be interested in seeing your take on Nocturne, so that gets my vote for this round.
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How long has the Working Designs games been stuck on CF2?
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HelIWithoutSin posted...

How long has the Working Designs games been stuck on CF2?

Since I beat Parasol Stars last April.
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Sonic 3D Blast won't take you long to beat
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Bump to break the tie.
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Considering that you haven't played MGS on PSX by now, you should do that immediately. It shouldn't take you any more than the weekend on your first run through and then you can get back to your list, having redeemed yourself as a human.
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Never going to happen, but I voted Jungle Strike. More challenging than Urban, more levels and variation than Desert.
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3D Blast is my favorite Sonic game for the soundtrack alone. It was also my first video game so I'm biased.
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SMT: Nocturne finally edges out MGS. Every time I looked they both kept getting more votes and being in a tie.

I played around with Sonic 3D Blast and the controls are really slippery.
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