Universal Studios AWFUL Video Game! Theme Parks Adventure for GameCube
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
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Baffling History is a series that takes a look at some of the oddest and most interesting stories about Disney and Theme Park History! My other series, History in Pi Minutes, is where I look at some popular topics and cover them in a bite size format.
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This is Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure.
Developed by Nai'a Digital Works and published by Kemco, this was released exclusively for the GameCube in 2001. It was meant to promote the newly opened Universal Studios Japan taking players through a digital recreation of the park with mini-games meant to emulate the opening day attractions.
It is infamous for being the 11th worst GameCube game of all time. It is a very bad video game with bad reviews. I'm gonna try to do a funny video game review. A totally original idea that no one has ever done before on the internet. a review of a videog game by an angry nerd. Groundbreaking.
The videogame starts with choosing your character and meeting your host for the day: Woody Woodpecker. Your main goal is to collect stamps by beating all the mini games based on the park's rides. While the game is specifically about Universal Studios Japan, the line-up will look pretty familiar since Universal has similar attraction line ups for all their studios parks.
On ET Adventure, you ride your bike to help ET escape. Jaws was probably my favorite. You pick up exploding barrels, watch the radar to see where the shark is, and then throw them when he gets close. Wild Wild Wild West Stunt Show where you need to get a high score. Back to the Future: The Ride: The Mini-Game is a race against time. Jurassic Park is a simplified version of the classic arcade game. Backdraft has you exploring a burning building to rescue everyone putting out fires as you go, dodging explosions, and collecting power ups. Last attraction was Water World. An action packed stunt show surely would lend itself to a fun mini-game, right? No.
There was also some movie trivia and little puzzles you could do with Woody Woodpecker’s friends, but there’s nothing really noteworthy there aside from how oddly obscure the trivia could be. And the fact that Oswald the Lucky Rabbit makes a cameo as a part of the broader classic cartoons Universal owned at the time which is just fascinating to me.
Also, once you beat everything you can watch the fireworks show.
Looking at the list of mini-games which range in quality from absolutely awful to, at best, almost playable, it is easy to see why this game is so poorly reviewed. No one is buying the Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure for a Backdraft simulator. They’re buying it to have a virtual version of a theme park experience. The chance to walk around a digital recreation of Universal Studios!
A common complaint was that you needed a lot of points to unlock new mini-games and you could only get points by doing tasks that require you to explore the park like meeting characters or going on a scavenger hunt for the lost Universal letters. But that complaint comes from the perspective of the mini-games being the point, but they’re clearly meant to just be a fun bonus! The point IS exploring the park!
So, if you look at it from that perspective, is it really as bad as critics say it is?
No, its worse.
The game uses a fixed cameras and pre-rendered backgrounds. A style that was used a lot for Playstation 1.
As mentioned before, you need a lot of points to unlock mini-games. How that actually worked is that you needed to buy hats for each ride. The lines are crazy long so you can’t get on any rides, but Woody Woodpecker will let you cut in line if you’re wearing the right hat.
While you do get points from finding characters or the letter scavenger hunt, those aren’t the main way you’ll get them. It’s mostly through collecting garbage. That is the primary gameplay loop.
Yo this gameplay fire.
below the Angry Video Game Nerd’s review, someone claiming to have a connection to a developer placed the blame Kemco.
It sold enough to justify a Play Station 2 version. Although this wasn’t a simple port, with the new version coming out 2 years later and developed by Konami. it was a Japanese exclusive so all I can really do is show a few screenshots
Welcome to Universal Studios Japan (PS2) Playtrhough by GXZ95
• Welcome to Universal S...
Chapters
0:00 - Intro
1:19 - The Mini Games
6:38 - OMG IS THAT OSWALD THE LUCKY RABBIT
6:52 - Exploring the Park
9:57 - What could have been
Remember when Universal Studios made an awful Video Game? Baffling History of Theme Parks Adventure - Ігри
If they were to take a second crack at it, what would you like to see included in a new Universal Studios video game?
Sure! Why not? A Universal version of Disneyland Adventures on modern consoles sounds like a lot of fun!
VR game option? :)
@@googamp32 I'd love to play that!
@@imaginationstationyt6948 A VR theme park game really seems like such a no brainer I can't believe it isn't real!
This is the best youtube recommended I've gotten in a bit. I've heard of this game before but it's refreshing to see a less angry take on a review for it. Hopefully one day you'll be able to collaborate with someone who could help out in deciphering the Japanese exclusive PS2 version
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the recommendation! It was a very frustrating game, but it's tough to be toooo angry when it's biggest problem is just me wanting it to be better because theme parks are cool!
I actually do have a friend who speaks Japanese who miiiight be interested in helping me playthrough and make a video on the PS2 version if I can find a playable copy. But don't hold your breath for a video on that anytime soon haha
Nice work my friend, very nice work. I really like the skits you added
Thanks! It was really fun to experiment with that a bit! Hope to add more little skits and stuff in the future (Maybe even eventually learn how to properly light a green screen so the shot is messed up by shadows lol)
I saw fucking WaterWorld on the map screen and my mind broke. Like, holy fuck, nobody remembers Waterworld, and the ones who do fucking hate it!
As crazy as it sounds, Universal Hollywood STILL to this day has a WaterWorld Stunt Show! Apparently its an amazing Stunt Show so they keep it around even though no one likes or remembers the movie lol
4:59 Here’s the link!
Nice video of a frustrating game 😅
Thanks!
And I had a feeling you'd enjoy the Link cameo 😉