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Mega Man Battle & Chase (1997)

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Since I had some extra time after beating Mega Man X3 again (I figured I would since the things that slowed me down previously I now know how to deal with), I wanted to get a look at the bonus game that came with the Mega Man X Collection. A PSX kart game. And... it's not terrible. The controls aren't what I would call "good" by any stretch of the imagination, but the concept is interesting. You beat the other racers to obtain parts from their carts. You can then mix and match to build up your own kart. Some tracks are more geared for some parts than others. It actually keeps a Mega Man feel to it while being a racing game, and it succeeds at the Mega Man side. But it fails pretty badly on the racing side. I don't like the controls, and I don't like this era of graphics. They are good enough that I can at least tell what everything is supposed to be, but it's rough. And I went ahead and looked up unlockables etc. at the end, and... wow. You have to beat the game four times with one characters to unlock one of the characters, that's then only available in versus or time trials. No thank you. What a waste of time. But better than the original where you could only get the character from a promo. Yikes! And they removed the announcers in this first non-Japanese release. Oh well, I'm really, really glad this game was included in the set! A free bonus game for buying a collection I already wanted? I don't care if it's not a classic, that's still extra content that I'm always happy to see. But.. I've seen it, I don't think I'm going back to it anymore. -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/the_nametag

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