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Played as part of Atari 50.

We're in the final generation of Atari now so I'm going to start getting a lot harsher than I was on some of the earlier games. This is just a flashier but worse-to-play version of Star Raiders released well over a decade later.

In 1993, you could instead be playing Doom, Star Fox, Myst, the first Sam and Max game... the list could go on forever, but packing this antiquated space flight sim in with the Jaguar is probably one of the most obvious cases of Atari showing their ass and that they were completely unable to evolve with the medium. Ironically, they likely thought the exact opposite, given this was one of the only real 3D games on the market at the time, but there is just, almost nothing here to come back to or latch onto. Many companies struggled hard in the jump to 3D in the 90s, but given Atari couldn't even manage to successfully remain relevant past the NES it's no surprise they managed to botch the jump to 3D as well.

"Fez a carteira por correspondência, é?" - Garota verde, tradução livre

Não é realmente um jogo tão ruim, apenas talvez a falta de música e a distância de renderização baixíssima. Com essas limitações, você deve ir atrás de "pods" para coletar, desviar de ataques e... é isso aí, daí repetir pra cada planeta.

O triste é que eles esperaram que o Jaguar fosse um sucesso mostrando isso

Not as bad as people make it out to be but certainly not good either. Making it a launch game for the Jaguar certainly was a choice

This review contains spoilers

WHERE DID YOU LEARN TO BE AN ASSHOLE?

Feels like worse controlling star fox with an aspect of sandbox open world ness with something not being clear in terms on wtf you have to do other than kill ships and collect crystals.

Also with the weird creepy as Green Head lady, it's just weird how they thought that having her creepy ass whisper would be calming.

Also
"Where did you learn to fly?"
"Ouch"
"Good job"*

Are legit the most anticlimactic and annoying asf lines in the game.

Starfox, nor Crimson Skies, this is not.

Played on Atari 50


"We have Star Fox at home, by the way where did you learn to fly? Avoid the ground!"

While I was playing the Atari Jaguar pack-in title Cybermorph I could only think to myself, "is this what younger folk think Star Fox is like?", because god I seriously hope not. On one hand it feels like it has better frame rate than Star Fox, but you know what it lacks in comparison that's also kinda important? Draw distance. Combining how near-sighted you are with the high speed movement of your ship and it's horrifically touchy controls leads to wacky-ass shenanigans where you mindlessly fly into hills, leading to the infamous moments where a green decapitated head materializes on your screen and asks you where you got your pilot's license at.

"Pilot's license?! What for?!" ~ Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales

Obviously that was the joke!!! For added hilarity, the game also enjoys placing your ship back inside the hill you just dived into, ensuring you probably crash at least twice into the same piece of deadly obstacle you died at. There's also no in-game music, so all you've got are insanely low quality sound effects and the decapitated head for company. Remember the fun ramblings of your teammates Falco, Slippy, and Peppy? Fuck them, you don't need them when you got the decapitated head going "OUCH." Now that's who I wanna play Electronic Battleship with during the rainy weekend!

While I'm on the subject of the Jaguar itself I really wanna talk about the controller, because man it sucks. You know your controller is garbage when it manages to be a nuisance from beyond the grave. It's basically a three button controller with one of those dumbass telephone button layouts at the bottom. I really wanna meet the old curmudgeon bastard who thought "yeah, those nice looking SNES pads and six button Genesis controllers? Just a fad, we're continuing with the dumbass telephone button layouts!". I've got like seven controllers compatible with my PC and not a single one of them are good for the Jaguar thanks to that shit, and I'm required to make different button layouts for games. You think anyone's making Jaguar controllers compatible with PCs? I hope not, I'd rather buy a flight stick with a bunch of buttons for playing Cybermorph than get a Jaguar repro controller.

"Oh that's a cool fight stick! You play Ace Combat or something?"
"Nah, I got it for playing Cybermorph on my Atari Jaguar."

You seriously have no idea how fast I'd find myself shoved into a locker if I said that to anyone. It could be the sweetest little girl you could ever meet, and within a micro-instance they'd still smash me into the tiniest subatomic locker with my body crushed into the finest of pastes. Even Amazo from the DC Animated Universe would have a hard time finding my corpse during the aftermath.

Painfully dull, ugly even for it's time, wouldn't be shocked if Cybermorph was what killed Atari for good and left it to be the zombie that it is today. Horrifying, fuck you decapitated head.

This is humanity's first instance of a VTuber

(played as part of ATARI 50)

Fly around at low speeds (because going fast will make you crash) while shooting some polygons and getting scolded for bumping into stuff by Isabella Rossellini from Blue Velvet.

Maybe not the worst pack-in game ever, but definitely in the conversation.

(Atari 50)
This is not as bad as I expected it to be but I admittedly had very low expectations so it's still not a particularly good game

I really don't think it's that bad, but it's also definitely not good. The sheer lack of music for any of the actual gameplay is eerie.

Certainly impressive for the time as a 3D space shooter, but I am going to have nightmares about the bald brittish lady.