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| Sponsored by Toyota |
Super Off Road was a reasonably fun arcade game ported to the SNES three years later. Would they add anything to make it better or is this yet another sad arcade port?
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| Sponsored by Toyota |
It turns out it's not really either one. They added a couple tracks and changed the game over criteria but otherwise it's very faithful to the arcade game, and not in a bad way. Setting it up so you need to finish not last instead of first is a really nice touch. As long as you never have a bad race you can keep playing and upgrading your car and having fun.
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| WANH WAAAAAAH! |
Of course, you have a bad race and it destroys your car. I lost most of my purchased upgrades and would need to play 5 or 6 races to get back to my old state. After I just lost. If losing had been a function of my car not being good enough and not a function of me driving the wrong way for 30 seconds this would be a big problem. As is, though, I probably could have recovered if I wanted to. But the punishment was so brutal and the game wasn't actually that fun so I didn't want to.
Part of the appeal of the arcade game was getting to use a steering wheel and gas pedals. The controller worked fine, but it wasn't as interesting. There's nothing actually wrong with the SNES port, I'm just not a big fan of the genre in general and the continue feature was a little too brutal for me. The music is pretty good even if part of it is based on a Toyota commercial jingle.
Rating: B-
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