These Video Game Skills SUCK!

2. Super Man 64 - Xray Vision

These Skills Suck
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I feel at this point using the word "skill" in the same sentence as Superman 64 is almost completely pointless as this piece of unwashed anus never saw skill in any form in it's conception, development and release. It is without a shadow of a doubt one of the worst games I've ever played, and quite frankly this title owes an apology to an eleven year old Jules, who played this game without realising what a horror show it would be.

My parents also divorced that same year, yet playing this was still worse. In fact this was probably the reason.

Everything, and I mean everything about this title, is off. The controls feel sluggish, the graphics look like something a dog coughed up and of course that "gameplay", Jesus Christ, I feel like POW camps would have been kinder than the time requirements here.

However, should you manage to get through the abysmal first few levels, it gets even worse, as the combat never feels like you're connecting with the enemies, and of course Superman's powers are anything but. Take for example the X-ray Vision skill which you can find in Stage 6.

Now you'd think that this might be useful, right? maybe you can use it to see through walls, maybe it reveals hidden secrets, maybe he can help me find my goddamn shed keys, I need to feed my secret family... you heard nothing.

And speaking of nothing, THAT'S PRECISELY WHAT THESE DO, ABSOLUTE RAW HOLE NOTHING! Seriously, players and code jockeys cannot figure out what the hell this power is meant to do, which is just a perfect expression of how terrible this game is.

A useless skill, in a useless game that turns the Big Blue Boy Scout into a Big Blue !*$%.

 
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