Ju O Ki (Altered Beast) Sucks

[Arkhan]

Sure, it looks a bit less crap looking than the Genesis one, and the music is arguably better (depending on taste)...

but, the game sucks. 

Why:

1) Up to jump pisses me off.
2) The scrolling is jagged for no reason.  The Master System's scrolling is better.
3) You bounce off everything like a drunk in a bouncy castle.  Often, you get hit once, and you've entered a mosh pit of zombies, blobs, and wolfcows, so you might as well just pack it in, because you are dead.
4) Everything feels delayed.  The controls just feel stiff.

I've defended the game in the past before because it's not THAT bad, but you know what.

f*ck it.

The game sucks. 

I spent the last 45 minutes or so playing it, swearing at it, and then wondering why I'm even playing it when I could play the versions that aren't retarded.



DISCUSS.

[Tatsujin]

DISCUSS.

Agreed!

[awack]

Yeah, I did a comparison to the genesis port and on a technical level(visual) with the exception of multi scrolling BGs the pce port is more impressive, no doubt, but the sound and game play its a lot worse....the cd port  has better gameplay sound and cutscenes  than the hucard.

[hoobs88]

Which version are you referring to...hu card or CD?

[Opethian]

doesn't matter
neither 2 player options or speech can save this port...

[_joshuaTurbo]

DISCUSS.

Agreed!

All versions of Altered Beast suck. 

[esteban]

I have not been able to get too far in this HuCARD.

I SUCK AT ALTERED BEAST (discuss).

[Arkhan]

I got to the 3rd level before I put it back on the shelf.    I'm playing the HuCard one. 

I don't really understand how they decided it was worth releasing.  We all know the controls could be smoother.



I think the Genesis one is probably better than even the arcade one.

[cho_aniki]

What I have never understood is why it is called Altered Beast, seeing as it is the man who gets altered and not the other way around. Or at least that would seem to be the case.

It should have been called Altered Geek.

[Otaking]

wait for it.......


WISE FWOM YOUR GWAVE!

[Arkhan]

What I have never understood is why it is called Altered Beast, seeing as it is the man who gets altered and not the other way around. Or at least that would seem to be the case.

It should have been called Altered Geek.

My guess is because he's been altered into a beast. 

wait for it.......


WISE FWOM YOUR GWAVE!

If only the game actually had that sample in it on PCE.

It doesn't have the WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM one either, and that's a f*cking crime.

[Necromancer]

Sounds like you need to play the CD version. 


(pun intended)

[Arkhan]

Yeah, I need to watch those sweet Powerpoint slideshows at the beginning.

[esteban]

What I have never understood is why it is called Altered Beast, seeing as it is the man who gets altered and not the other way around. Or at least that would seem to be the case.

Absolutely correct.

 

The only reasonable explanation for the title Altered Beast: SEGA, ever the collective of political artists and coders, were making a strong statement in naming the game—clearly, they are putting forward the controversial claim that man is a beast, despite our pretensions otherwise. Man, despite his poetry, his art, his religion...man is just as brutal, if not moreso, than the uncivilized animals he looks down upon.  SEGA suggests that we look no further than the gross injustices of the socio-economic systems that exploit the weak for the benefit of the elite. Indeed, the barbarity man imposes on man is the only "universal truth" revealed by our history of pain, no gain and inequality (SEGA rightly laughs at the foolish physicists and their futile attempts to find "universal law")—the only law in the cosmos is that man is savage and rationalizes this brutality by perverting Science, Law, Progress and Art.

 

[Arjak]

The only reasonable explanation for the title Altered Beast: SEGA, ever the collective of political artists and coders, were making a strong statement in naming the game—clearly, they are putting forward the controversial claim that man is a beast, despite our pretensions otherwise. Man, despite his poetry, his art, his religion...man is just as brutal, if not moreso, than the uncivilized animals he looks down upon.  SEGA suggests that we look no further than the gross injustices of the socio-economic systems that exploit the weak for the benefit of the elite. Indeed, the barbarity man imposes on man is the only "universal truth" revealed by our history of pain, no gain and inequality (SEGA rightly laughs at the foolish physicists and their futile attempts to find "universal law")—the only law in the cosmos is that man is savage and rationalizes this brutality by perverting Science, Law, Progress and Art.

 

Whoa, that's deep.