These Video Game Character Redesigns SUCK!

So hands up who remembers the giddy excitement of waking up on a Saturday morning and rushing downstairs to watch the likes of Biker Mice From Mars, Gargoyles, Mummys Alive, Captain Bucky O'Hare and the like? Well, this sugar rush morning market was something fiercely contested back in the day, so much so that even the video game industry wanted to get in on the action.

This meant we got some absolutely bizarre video game cartoon crossovers like the Super Mario Bros. Show, The Legend of Zelda cartoon, Mortal Kombat and it's PG friendly action, but the weirdest and in many ways worst of all of them has to be Captain N, which systematically reimagined and ruined so many of our favorite video game heroes.

*phone rings*

Hello Dial-A-!*$%, Jules speaking. Yeah I know this isn't a video game but I never explicitly stated that this NOT LIST would be solely concerned with solely that medium. Yes this is a lazy way of explaining this to certain audience members who might furiously be typing their anger towards a free entertainment show and who really should be spending their time in a better manner. Good day to both of you.

*Slams phone down*

So let's have a chat, because Captain N: The Game Master is something else.

For a start, gotta love that production value as I've often wondered whether MS Paint could be used to animate a cartoon with the fluidity of rigor mortis. Secondly, oh me oh my look at these characters. Simon Belmont is now a shovel chinned self obsessed idiot, Mother brain looks like if a tissue full of man batter had their eyes and lips done by Homer Simpsons makeup shotgun, and Mega Man sounds like Steve-O in the full crack-binge years, but the worst of all, hands down, is Kid !*$% Icarus.

Firstly they call him Kid Icarus. His name is Pit you clowns, don't do my boy dirty like this. Yet the biggest crime here is how he talks, adding "icus" to the end of random words like he's some post-stroke smurf. Hearing this over and over and over makes me want to die, because each "icus" is like a nail in the coffin for poor old Pit. He's easily the most hated character in the entire show and it's like the team making this had no clue about the source material for any of these characters.

So, if you want to see the equivalent of "but we've got Nintendo at home" then Captain N is the lukewarm piss you've been begging for.