Jan 15, 2014

MOTU Fangame!! The Rant:

There's a Masters of the Universe fangame being made using the Beats of Rage Engine available. The Demo is available to download on the Youtube video I linked.

For those of you who don't know BOR is a customizable engine to make Beat-em up games. The name of the Engine B.O.R. comes from SEGA's Streets of Rage, which was the inspiration for BOR.

The Artwork for this game is obviously Filmation Based. Which is a good thing because The less details on the characters makes them easier to animate.
The best part is that it looks more 80s Filmation cartoon-like than the average sprite based game that you see with the BOR Engine.(Whose Sprite Art often Emulates the Capcom Style from the late 90s or the SNK KoF Sprite style.)

The sounds and music seem straight out of Filmation. That is a GREAT THING because it creates that Atmosphere that no other He-Man Media has been able to emulate.

 So, the Playable characters are: He-Man, Duh, Man-At-Arms, Orko and The Sorceress... How can she be outside of Grayskull? No idea, but suspension of disbelief for the game's sake.

I had to play it on the PC with the keyboard, which is not made for beat-em' up games, but since this is a BOR Game, you can theoretically make it work on a SEGA Dreamcast. I don't know the process on how to make this so, don't ask me. Obviously, you have to burn it on a CD .  
The controls are as responsive as your average 90s Beat-em'up game. I cannot honestly gauge the responsiveness of the controls without using a controller.

For a fan game, this demo seems promising.
I like that is less tongue in cheek than the official Most Powerful Game in the Universe for smartphones and iCrap... (Sorry, not a Mac Fan) It seems to be a LOVE LETTER to Filmation's MOTU. I wish that Mattel would look into a REAL CONSOLE Game. Not simply a port of the phone game. I would LOVE a 4 Player Beat-em' up MOTUC Game, Because it would combine MOTU, POP and NA... even if we have to swallow some Sir Loser Lot, Spector and Cy Suck.



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