Horrible Nightmare B4 Xmas game, and about this blog

Heard of the game "The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge"? Released a few years back for the (then) generation of consoles (Xbox, GC, PS2). I got the PS2 version a few years ago.

A few of the voice actors return (Chris Sanders, original Jack, is back!) but a few are changed, for the worse. Like, rip out your ear-drums worse.

Gameplay is total crap, fixed camera is really poor, combat is poor, and Jack yells "Soul Robber!" too many times. Oh, did I mention that? Jack has a gooey thing on his right hand that can extend like a whip.

Yeah..................

Positive is that you can "transform" into Pumpkin King Jack and Santa Jack and wield fire-powers (fire-breathing!) and unleash horrifying presents. [Pumpkin King was at the beginning of the film, before Jack jumps into the fountain. Yes he looks cool]

I popped it in today for some fun, not realizing that...

1) I restarted the game so I didn't have level select.

2) The gameplay sucked, a lot.

The ONLY redeeming feature (aside from the licensed characters) is the fact that boss battles, while retaining the crap gameplay, also have dance sequences.

Yes, dance sequences. As you hit the boss repeatedly, musical notes pop out. Collect enough of them and then you have to press button prompts in accordance to a song (new lyrics attached to old music) and then dish out big damage, not enough to KILL the boss usually, but a lot more than that dumb whip.

So yes, those are cool. Not cool enough to GO THROUGH THE HORRIBLE GAME, but cool.




Also: about this blog. I know its updates are erratic. You know the updates are erratic. Is there a lot of point to it? No (but was there ever?). So I'm taking down the comments thing, kind of getting sick of seeing "0 comments" all the time.

Bye now.