Like most of Kojima’s games, he takes inspiration from movies and Snatcher ain’t no original story.  Heavily influenced by Blade Runner, you take the role of Gillian Seed who, conveniently, has amnesia as he has to get to the bottom of why synthetic robots, called Snatchers, are committing crimes.  You’ll go around to various locales and talk, look, investigate, and analyze clues you find throughout the world.  Occasionally you’ll get to do shooting sequences when all Hell breaks loose but, in my opinion, that really isn’t the fun part.  It’s fun just being a detective and going around the town and investigating strange characters.  

Visuals:

I am digging how this game looks.  It’s a static game in that every screen is just a scene with you to look around the environment.  It’s an adventure game first and foremost so each screen is highly detailed.  What strikes me about the game is how much skin and gore is in the game.  For something that came out in the mid-90s, at the height of congressional hearings about blood and sex in games, this game is not one of them that gets mentioned.  There are quite some suggestive things going on in the game and I’m loving every part of it.  I also love how things which were seen as novelties in the game has now been made manifest in Kojima’s later games, such as the Metal Gear Mk. II appearing in MGS 4.

Audio:

There is quite a bit of voice acting in the game.  It’s not all amazing but, for the time, it has some pretty good characters.  The background music and sound effects are all well done even if the story is kind of derivative.  Like the visuals, I’m loving the game.  The story is getting going and the stings are pretty good so I can’t wait to see more…now that I got the audio working again.

Completion:

I’m working on it!  I had some hiccups with my file and the audio not working but I’m loving what I’ve seen so far.  I have a feeling I know where it’s going but I don’t think the story will be that on the nose.  I wish there were better ways to play this as I’d love to see this come out on more modern systems but, for now, the Sega CD is where I’ll stay.  So far, I’ve seen a ripped off head and blown up a factory and it seems the story has just gotten underway.  We got this, Mika!

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Kris Kross was a global fuckin phenomenon back in the early 90s when it came out. I was a grade schooler at the time and these kids were someone I wanted to be. I didn’t dress like them, unfortunately, because I lacked the confidence. There were a couple of kids in my 2nd grade class who did and, let me tell you, they were cool. ANYWAYS, the Make My Video games were released to allow you to take the music video and splice it with royalty stock footage to make your own video! Of course you’re dictated by some random people to tell you what to put in the video, but that’s the biz. At the end, they grade you, and you can say you’re a director! By the way, this is on the Sega CD, so QUALITY IS BAD!

Visuals:

This is some grainy ass video for all three of the simultaneous videos going at once. Also the UI is all over the place because that’s just how the times were. The good thing is that you can switch between the video feeds with just a push of a button so you don’t really have to move a cursor around which allows for fast switching.

Audio:

Can I say that this is where the game fucking excels. The video may look like shit but the audio is where it’s at. The songs came through in a pretty good quality where all I really wanted to do was listen to the music and couldn’t care less about making my video. This one is top notch.

Completion:

Can you REALLY complete this game? I made my video, presented it to my client, he hated it, and then I got kicked to the home screen to make another video. If this is the case I guess the possibilities are endless since you can just keep creating different videos for the songs. So there’s that.

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You take control of one of three characters and go through Metro City defeating street toughs to rescue your daughter! Even though they have a …business… proposition for Mayor Mike Haggar, he joins Cody and Guy to take them down once and for all. It’s a side scrolling beat-em-up game originally made for the arcade, so it was designed to eat quarters with cheapness. But now it’s for YOUR SEGA CD! This means you can actually play with two players and some of the levels that were taken from us!

Visuals:

For the time, this game was something else. The releases for other platforms always had something missing and was never the arcade experience. This all is changed since everything looks amazing and is a faithful adaptation of the game. There are still the same limits from the SNES version but at least nothing is actually removed.

Audio:

This is where the Sega CD version shines! You get some rearranged music that is just fuckin’ rockin’ the entire time and gets you pumped. You also get A-M-A-Z-I-N-G voice acting setting up the story that just sounds like it was made for a very bad TV movie, like Master Ninja. I love it so much.

Completion:

As shown in the screenshot above, I got destroyed at the Subway level. I was so transfixed by the ladies that I let my guard down and just couldn’t come away with the W. It’s all good though, it’s a great game and, if I hit continue, I would have been able to probably beat it but I had to stick by my own rules.

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It’s a side scrolling game based on the movie. It’s very loosely based but that’s just how things were when movie-tie in games were released. If you don’t know what the Terminator franchise is, it’s about a CYBERNETIC ORGANISM (his words) being sent back in time to kill people…and constantly failing. Also paradoxes happen left and right but it’s best not to think about those.

Visuals:

This is a pretty crisp game, from a gameplay standpoint. The sprites and backgrounds are pretty sharp when you’re actually playing. There was some noticeable slowdown when I was bombarded by Terminators but that’s to be expected since they are VERY TOUGH (his words). The one nitpick about this game, and pretty much every game from this era that utilized them, the FMV is atrocious. I get that’s kind of the tech of the time, but mang that was rough.

Audio:

The soundtrack isn’t bad. It’s CD quality audio and the sound effects are nice and crisp. It’s very much a banger with its metal and rock and of the time, it just loops.

Completion:

I was terminated in the first level. There are just so many of the fuckers all over the place that I kept getting killed. There is a generous checkpoint system so I did progress through the level but it took all my lives. I finally took out the last bigger robot and, as I was about to jump to complete the level [there is a nice big EXIT sign to show you where to go], I fell to my doom. At least they didn’t get the satisfaction of killing me so I got that going for me, which is nice.

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