Story time: When I was a kid, 6 or 7 I don't really remember, I remembered seeing the PSP and thinking it was the coolest thing ever, A little PlayStation between my hands I can take everywhere I want.. That's like a dream come true to my 6 year old self so I begged and begged and begged my fatherbto buy me one and after like.. 2 weeks of whining, HE FINALLY BOUGHT ME.. a cheap knock-off Chinese handheld console..
And it had like three games only, The original Road Rash which I will not gonna lie, was actually pretty fun, The Sega Genesis version of Disney's Aladdin, a classic, aaaaand Hot Potato!.. where do we even start with this game..
That's the only reason I know this exist by the way, I bet you that I'm literally the only person in the world that still remember this game, I remember playing and thinking it was.. fine and that's it, So playing now in 2021.. Yeah, There's a reason nobody remembers this game..
Apparently the story is about a weird-looking potato alien race/beings/thinges that invaded earth.. Okay, So you mission is to control a moving bus that has 6 of those blue and red colored beings and shoot the aliens that has the same colors so they can disappear and make a clearer road for you so you can cross safely without exploding.. I'm sorry, but this game has to have one of the most confusing, bizarre and weird stories I've ever seen, Why the aliens, Why does the bus have eyes, Why they're colored red and blue only, Why do I exist, This is a puzzle game, It doesn't need to be this confusing, Okay..
But hey who cares about the story, It's a video game, What about the game play.. It's fine, The mechanics are actually not that bad, You have six aliens on the bus, you can switch between them by pressing the A and B buttons (Using the Right and Left shoulders are a lot better though) and you have a fair amount of time to shoot, The gameplay is fine, okay..
What ruins this game is the difficulty balancing, That is seriously the only thing keeping this game away from being a decent puzzle game, The game start off very easy and become difficult really fast, The first couple of levels are a real breeze, Nothing seriously and actually pretty fun, You get to the "Worker" level and It's GAME OVER, The game becomes very difficult, I would even go as far to say that it becomes impossible, Even if you pass the Worker level, The level after it is even worse and you probably lost all your lives already from because of how difficult the Worker level was, So you just have to lose and start all over again.. This is not fun, This is not fun at all..
And even if the game wasn't awfully balanced, It's gets pretty repetitive and tedious quickly, They introduce new enemies every couple of levels but they don't really change the gameplay much so having them is almost the same as.. not having them..
One thing I gotta admit though, The sprite work is amazing, The animation of these little potatoe alien dudes are actually pretty amusing and well animated but it doesn't really save this game from the repetitive and kinda tedious gameplay, The very dull and boring music, The annoying repetitive sound effects those little guys make, The awfully balanced difficult..
So you're probably saying right now: Wow, This game looks pretty awful, The 5-star rating seems pretty high, and my excess is.. I'm biased, Not gonna lie, Even though this game is pretty bad.. and boring, and kinda broken in many different ways, It'll always have a special place in my heart for being that one weird game I played as a kid..
So yeah, I don't even think anybody will read this review anyways, because of how obscure this game is, and I just kinda wasted 35 minutes of my life typing this, I will never get back again... Not gonna lie, It feels good, So yeah, I don't really recommend this game to anyone, There's a lot of better puzzle games you can play on the GBA, Just play Puyo Pop or something.. Believe me you'll gonna have a better time playing that instead of whatever this game was.
And it had like three games only, The original Road Rash which I will not gonna lie, was actually pretty fun, The Sega Genesis version of Disney's Aladdin, a classic, aaaaand Hot Potato!.. where do we even start with this game..
That's the only reason I know this exist by the way, I bet you that I'm literally the only person in the world that still remember this game, I remember playing and thinking it was.. fine and that's it, So playing now in 2021.. Yeah, There's a reason nobody remembers this game..
Apparently the story is about a weird-looking potato alien race/beings/thinges that invaded earth.. Okay, So you mission is to control a moving bus that has 6 of those blue and red colored beings and shoot the aliens that has the same colors so they can disappear and make a clearer road for you so you can cross safely without exploding.. I'm sorry, but this game has to have one of the most confusing, bizarre and weird stories I've ever seen, Why the aliens, Why does the bus have eyes, Why they're colored red and blue only, Why do I exist, This is a puzzle game, It doesn't need to be this confusing, Okay..
But hey who cares about the story, It's a video game, What about the game play.. It's fine, The mechanics are actually not that bad, You have six aliens on the bus, you can switch between them by pressing the A and B buttons (Using the Right and Left shoulders are a lot better though) and you have a fair amount of time to shoot, The gameplay is fine, okay..
What ruins this game is the difficulty balancing, That is seriously the only thing keeping this game away from being a decent puzzle game, The game start off very easy and become difficult really fast, The first couple of levels are a real breeze, Nothing seriously and actually pretty fun, You get to the "Worker" level and It's GAME OVER, The game becomes very difficult, I would even go as far to say that it becomes impossible, Even if you pass the Worker level, The level after it is even worse and you probably lost all your lives already from because of how difficult the Worker level was, So you just have to lose and start all over again.. This is not fun, This is not fun at all..
And even if the game wasn't awfully balanced, It's gets pretty repetitive and tedious quickly, They introduce new enemies every couple of levels but they don't really change the gameplay much so having them is almost the same as.. not having them..
One thing I gotta admit though, The sprite work is amazing, The animation of these little potatoe alien dudes are actually pretty amusing and well animated but it doesn't really save this game from the repetitive and kinda tedious gameplay, The very dull and boring music, The annoying repetitive sound effects those little guys make, The awfully balanced difficult..
So you're probably saying right now: Wow, This game looks pretty awful, The 5-star rating seems pretty high, and my excess is.. I'm biased, Not gonna lie, Even though this game is pretty bad.. and boring, and kinda broken in many different ways, It'll always have a special place in my heart for being that one weird game I played as a kid..
So yeah, I don't even think anybody will read this review anyways, because of how obscure this game is, and I just kinda wasted 35 minutes of my life typing this, I will never get back again... Not gonna lie, It feels good, So yeah, I don't really recommend this game to anyone, There's a lot of better puzzle games you can play on the GBA, Just play Puyo Pop or something.. Believe me you'll gonna have a better time playing that instead of whatever this game was.