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Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games is the worst game I've EVER PLAYED

2020-05-12 · 11 min

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  1. Hello and welcome back to my review of

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  2. this new game called Mario

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  3. and Sonic at the Olympic Games.

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  4. Already I can feel like this is going to

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  5. be a terrible game, but thought might as

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  6. well give it a try. Why not?

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  7. What's the worst that could happen?

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  8. Choose how you want to play on this

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  9. screen. Well, duh, that's what a menu

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  10. system's for. I know what a menu is. The

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  11. menu is so you choose what you want to

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  12. play. You don't have to tell me what the

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  13. bloody menu is for. Jesus Christ. Okay,

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  14. Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Don't think that's

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  15. gonna happen anymore. Sorry to break

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  16. it to you, Japan, but the virus kind of

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  17. messed everything up for everyone, so say

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  18. goodbye to your Olympics. Well, for the

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  19. menu we have quick match,

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  20. story mode. I don't know how you can have

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  21. a story mode for the Olympics. What's the

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  22. story gonna be? Local play and my

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  23. data. I hate when people pronounce data as

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  24. data, sounds so stupid. So we're gonna do

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  25. a quick match, see what this game is

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  26. about. So we have

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  27. various different types of sporting

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  28. events. 100-meter triple

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  29. jump, skateboarding. Skateboarding looks

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  30. quite fun actually.

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  31. Wouldn't mind a skateboarding game on my

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  32. Switch. So the available modes we have are

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  33. badminton, 110-meter hurdles,

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  34. karate, surfing,

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  35. archery, Why didn't you give

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  36. me skateboarding? You gave us the worst

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  37. modes. Didn't even give us swimming to try

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  38. out. Uh, which one sounds the least

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  39. boring? I guess karate could be fun.

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  40. Maybe it's like Tekken.

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  41. So my impression of this game so far is

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  42. it's just like a bunch of different types

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  43. of games all rolled into one.

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  44. So I want to be Sonic because Mario just

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  45. looks like a fat ugly man. I don't know

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  46. why people love Mario so much. He's like

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  47. the ugliest character in all of video game

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  48. history. Sonic is way cooler.

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  49. Sonic versus Peach, so I get to beat up a

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  50. girl. Okay, let's see what the controls

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  51. are like. I feel like

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  52. I'm playing Super Smash Bros. Maybe it's

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  53. better than Super Smash Bros. without all

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  54. that jumping about platforming rubbish.

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  55. I don't know what the buttons are. So I

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  56. can grab, grab her pussy like that,

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  57. knock her down. What happened? Look, look

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  58. where he's grabbing, right in the crotch.

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  59. That's not cool, Sonic.

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  60. What's she doing now?

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  61. Okay, what do the other buttons do? Can I

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  62. string up combos? Oh, it's finished. Oh,

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  63. that was quick. Barely even got a chance

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  64. to do anything. Let me try again.

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  65. This is the worst fighting game I've ever

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  66. played. Super Smash Bros is way better.

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  67. That's it, all you have to do is knock

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  68. them over and then it's finished.

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  69. This is so lame.

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  70. It's like punch, kick, punch, kick,

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  71. and then a grab. Not impressed. Let's do

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  72. a different mode. That was just the worst

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  73. fighting game I've ever played.

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  74. Okay, let's see.

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  75. What do you mean, thank you for playing?

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  76. I'm not finished playing. Are you kidding

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  77. me?

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  78. Oh, I thought it was going to say that I

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  79. can't play anymore. Okay, let's try

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  80. archery, see if that's any good.

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  81. Come on, just get on with it.

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  82. I hate it when games take ages to get

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  83. started, all these bloody menus. So I

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  84. have to hold L to

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  85. aim. How do I aim?

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  86. It says hold R.

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  87. Oh, and then release, release R.

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  88. Well, that was easy. Bullseye! It's not

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  89. even difficult. Look, you just move the

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  90. cursor over the target and then let go.

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  91. It's not even challenging.

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  92. Really boring. Okay,

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  93. let's try a different mode. How do

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  94. I exit? Quit.

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  95. Okay, let's try the 110-meter

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  96. hurdle. All these game modes are just

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  97. rubbish.

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  98. Isn't it kind of unfair to let Sonic run

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  99. and do a race? Shouldn't he be really

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  100. fast?

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  101. Okay, let's see how this works. Do I just

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  102. spam A or something?

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  103. So I just spam A and then press B to jump.

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  104. Wow. What dynamic

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  105. gameplay. That was it,

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  106. didn't even last 5 seconds.

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  107. Okay, we'll do it one more time.

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  108. Oh, I got a perfect.

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  109. Oh, I came— did I come second?

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  110. No, I came fourth. Well, that was stupid.

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  111. All you do is press A and then B to jump.

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  112. What is the point?

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  113. Okay, so else we have— I think

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  114. skateboarding could have been fun. They

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  115. won't let me play it, so we've got

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  116. badminton and then surfing left, and then

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  117. I'll come, I'll come up with my final

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  118. conclusion of the game.

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  119. Why can't they just put a decent Sonic

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  120. game on the Switch, like Sonic Adventure 1

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  121. or 2?

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  122. Okay, let's see if this is any good.

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  123. Hmm, it's okay, I guess.

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  124. Pretty basic. I feel like every game mode

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  125. on this game is just really, really basic,

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  126. like an extremely dumbed-down version of

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  127. proper games.

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  128. It's not even hard. I don't even have to

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  129. move the character. He automatically runs

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  130. towards it. Look, I'm not even moving him.

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  131. He moves himself.

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  132. All I do is press A when the ball comes

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  133. towards me.

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  134. Can you imagine paying £50 for this?

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  135. I guess if you're 10 years old, it might

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  136. be entertaining. Okay, let's try the last

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  137. one, surfing.

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  138. I really don't know how Nintendo is

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  139. probably the richest, the most popular

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  140. games company. Their games just suck.

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  141. They're so bad.

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  142. Okay, let's get this over with. So what do

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  143. I do? Am I

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  144. even doing anything? Oh, I move left

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  145. and right, and then you can jump.

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  146. But that's all you do, you just jump up

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  147. the wave and then land.

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  148. It's not even difficult. I don't even know

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  149. what I'm doing. Uh, what a

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  150. load of rubbish. So that was Mario

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  151. and Sonic doing a bunch of random sporting

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  152. events. Terrible, terrible game.

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