Megaman Soccer

SNES

Capcom 199x

I'm not really sure how to open this review. I never played this game as a kid, but did pick it up second hand when I got on a huge Megaman kick during 2nd semester of my senior year of high school. This is a Megaman game, but at the end of the day, you can tell the franchise has officially jumped the shark. Playing soccer to save the world? What? When did sports games get plot?

What I liked:

Sports game. Yay.

Some cool characters, sorta.

Sliding. Wow. Cool for like a minute, again.

What I didn't:

Makes your hand hurt.

Almost half the characters are completely useless (i.e. another is the same or better in all four categories)

Games are pretty long

64-dot passwords?!?

The goal-scoring trick is pretty cheap.

Controls: 7. The shoulder/slide tackle thing is tricky, and pre-passing messes you up a lot.

Graphics: 8. Solid.

Sound: 5. Still sucks. No way to fix it.

Style: 3. Gets worse each time. Same crap, different smell. Still gets some points since they tried something new.

1st hour: 9. WOW. Soccer. Awesome!

2nd hour: 7. Ow. My hand.

1st week: 7. Why am I killing my hand in these 20-2 wins?

2nd week: 6. Getting old. Too dumb.

1st month: 4. Novelty item at best

The number one reason I HATE THIS GAME is that it's Megaman and it's soccer together. Horrible.

by Evil X