DROPPING THE TRASH ON SPORTS
It's "Trash Game Review Time" and Lea knows it.
Looks like the "Trashfall" is not complete without Myron Kevan Tynes Jr's abominations.
Yeah, I'm talking Breakthrough Gaming. This time it's back to disgrace another sport.
ICE HOCKEY IN GAMING
1979-2022
YOU HAD BETTER AND HAPPIER DAYS
NHL and NCAA Ice Hockey fans, we gather here today to mourn the death of our beloved Ice Hockey in gaming.
Bringing home the sport was a nice and noble endeavour carried with ups and downs, but with memorable glory moments, until Breakthrough Gaming arrived with this monstrosity.
The first thing we notice about this "Hockey" game is that there's no opponents, no teams, no rivals, passes, puck stealings the very, very common brawls and fights, no nothing, not even ice. The gameplay consists of choosing which will be your scoring goal by sending the puck to either left or right, choose right and left will be your opposite. If the puck hits the opposite goal it will take a point away due to the Own-Goal. Sounds simple enough, but GOD DAMN THE CONTROLS, moving the player is irritating and the puck bounces everywhere like a badly programmed clone of Atari's Pong. The time limit is a little more generous than Soccer as each in-game second is like 1 and a half of a real one, and the main priority is to make at least 8 points. Yeah, that means the major trophies. The rest are choosing the left goal, the right one and the Platinum after getting all of them. Trophy hunting wasn't that frustrating.
There's a few videos on YouTube where the goals don't appear. Apparently there's a cheat to ease the game by pressing left and X, I didn't tried that and I don't care 'cos I've uninstalled the damned game.
It's like the aspects of the Force.
Like all the catalogue of this company, the Attract Mode is not complete without a biblical lesson. This time about making choices in life. I'm sure of one thing: God is not gonna be happy with this game, and the best choice we can make is not making him upset with bad quality games like this one.
Graphically, ugh...The same visual mediocrity, just a black background, the lamest white spriteworks, and there you go, this mediocre sub-product with no reason to exist, except to enrage God and play stupid with people's faith. The childish stickman was removed for a circle hitting a small circle which is supposed to be the puck. Simply pathetic, the "Goals" are a sad, miserable bunch of boxes crammed together like a bad makeshift goal. The only decent thing is the attract mode music which is the same of Breakthrough Gaming's Skateboarding. Unlike Skateboarding, Ice Hockey doesn't have music during the gameplay. So this game is an F- in gameplay, but a C- in the sound department.
Nobody is happy this time, Nina.
Using the name of God to release trash, Ice Hockey: Breakthrough Gaming Arcade is once again another abominable atrocity waiting to disgrace your PlayStations, With zero allusions to the sport, this game is a total ripoff, even for a "Game for a buck" purchase.
Kidz Sports Ice Hockey, which was considered as the worst Ice Hockey game ever has been redeemed, that game is a "Game of the decade" compared with Breakthrough Gaming's attempt to a hockey game.
Breakthrough Gaming performed the miracle of breaking the scales...Negatively.
One last thing to say to close the review: God, don't be upset with humanity, just forgive Myron, because he doesn't know what he's doing.