Power rangers super legends PS2 review

The power rangers. that epic 90s franchise of spandex , stock footage and multi coloured badassness

So a side scrolling beat em up based on the power rangers . What could go wrong ?

Yeah it was bad really really bad . Dull boring and repetitive , probably one of the worst ps2 games I have ever played . still kinda liked it though.

I know that doesn't make any sense but bare with me . The games got a lot of things wrong with it well almost everything wrong with it actually. it has you playing as different rangers teams through

there respectively themed levels battling there own set of mooks with some plat forming in-between and ending in a boss battle . not bad you say ?

Well it is . The levels well some times pretty to look at just get bland a repetitive after five or so minuets. The mooks do come in a few different flavours like basic hand to hand , shooter , flyer and the like but you don't have to fight them you can just run past them for most of the level until the plot traps you into fighting them . That's kind of a big damn flaw for a beat em up to have .

If this wasn't a power rangers licence id have to complain about the enemy AI being bad but hear it works the mooks of this game are putties after all and watching them line up single file to fight you , fall off platforms , walk in to the paths of explosives and at one point stand around waiting to get hit by cars just adds add an unintentional power rangery feel to the game.

Now the big reason to hate on this game is the the zord battles . If there's one thing you remember about power rangers its the zord battles , giant multi coloured dinosaur robot vs the giant monster of the week battering the crap out of each other hell yeah that's awesome . Sure it was just 2 guys in rubber suits but did anyone care ? No because it was the best part of the episode and it happened every episode ! But hear in this game the beauty of robotic armed combat the very soul of the show is reduced to a quick time event . A QUICK TIME EVENT . super legends succeeds ware others have failed in making giant robots boring. that shouldn't even be possible. the worst part is its not even hard it just happens press a few button , repeat the pattern and your done .

Now all of that could be forgiven but there's one thing stopping that one main flaw in the game the one above all others the one that takes away basically the game part . You cant die . When your health bar runs out the game just re spawns ware you fell .this just takes all of the challenge out of it which is a shame , zord QTE's aside boss battles do try to mix things up and with set lives this could have been a fun little game.

Despite its flaws its cheapness its desecration of the art of mecha , I still kinda liked it . Its not a game aimed a me its for kids. its cheapness just adds to the power rangery feel . Logically I should say avoid it but I cant if you can pick it up for under £5 you should ether for a cheap laugh at its badness or like me for nostalgia for the the legendary past.