Videogame Review, Altered Beast for the Sega Genesis (w/ Sega 32X; Sega’s Arcade Stick)

Videogame Review, Altered Beast for the Sega Genesis (w/ Sega 32X; Sega’s Arcade Stick)

Despite the nice visuals and sounds, everything stops being interesting once you’ve memorized the enemy’s moves.  Even on the hard levels I’ve been wiping enemies clean like nobody’s business and, half the time, it feels like an underachievement; not only that, but the enemies attack me when, half the time, their choices for defense are nothing but cheap shots.  And since there’s fewer levels in Altered Beast compared to Super Mario Bros. from the Nintendo Entertainment System this Genesis title ought to be despised.  Audio is better through the red/white/yellow cables although the improvement doesn’t help Altered Beast; in fact, different sound effects in the game resemble those for a bad Gameboy Color game and I can’t find reason to enjoy the fighting/arcade program beyond the gimmick- “Wow, a man turned into a werewolf!”  (Sarcasm.)  My Genesis computer doesn’t control the enemies very well either.  Often I’m just kicking and punching enemies since they’re more repetitive than a cube of butter; it hurts, man.  But what’s all this?  The Altered Beast is weaker in the 4th world than in the 1st world?!  How is that possible?  In the forth level you’re given this ineffective high-and-low dashing maneuver although you’re supposed to be the “relentless” weretiger.  Once we’ve overcome the human-to-animal transformation the Sega Genesis takes a nose dive, not for the better, and the gameplay will be so repetitive to anyone with a 2-year college degree I’ll bet.  Just as long as we’ve had experience in video games this Genesis lackluster won’t appeal much on taste and reason.  In the “HARD” section for the 2nd world I beat the red-eyed monster in 2 seconds!  Give me a break!  Obviously this Genesis arcade port was made as a joke with regards to the 1st world voice (“Wise Fwom Yow Gwave!!!” says Zeus), the repetitive levels, the eyeless Athena, the pointless green dragon who electrocutes everything in its path, the werecat who can’t attack without airborne obstacles, the werewolf who clobbers the whole screen (it seems), etc.  Not to mention the werebear who spins like Sonic the Hedgehog, a game on the Genesis that’s more complicated and special than Altered Beast since it suits perfection and eventual restoration of lives that the game in question shows nothing of.  I’ll usually find myself dying only because I didn’t get any health potions or life enhancers other than the stupid, incredibly cliche beast-morphing orbs of Zeus, and why does Zeus look like Santa Claus?  Altered Beast is an unproductive game that lacks creativity and ought to be substituted with Sonic the Hedgehog.  Trust me.  I’m severely frustrated.

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