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Bionic Commando: Elite Forces (2000)

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Umihara Kawase's rubber wire action was most likely inspired by Bionic Commando. On this stream I look at two other games in that lineage.

Capcom outsourced the GBC instalment of the BC franchise to NST, one of Nintendo's few Western studios. 2000's Elite Forces was the result. It's so smoothly animated and the grapple mechanics play well, with traversal even becoming puzzle-like at times. With equippable items, sniper and overhead sections, and comm rooms, it's stuffed with ideas but the core hooking and swinging is the highlight here. I got about halfway through the game before moving on.

AIM was probably taking cues from Bionic Commando for its PC Engine CD release Fausseté Amour (a faux-French attempt at something like "False Love"), but also seems to be drawing from Capcom's Ghosts 'n Goblins, and perhaps the Valis series as well. Like other games on the system, it's got anime stylings, brightly coloured hair, and voiced cutscenes, but the action is a bit sluggish and awkward, and while it's fun to grapple, the mechanic feels underused throughout the game. It's got decent ideas done decently well though. It's decent. Except for some of the costumes/designs and camera angles, they're decidedly indecent.

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