Today, I'm taking a look at one of the worst parts of one of the best franchises, Bionicle The Game. This is normally where I'd pose a question as to its quality, but you can probably tell by the thumbnail that this is a trainwreck. Let me show you why.
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"Robo-Western" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Remarks from the Future: The first purely Western review (excluding animesques). Part of the inspiration for the name of the channel and the logo was the Bionicle franchise. I followed it since the beginning, and loved it all the way through. This game, on the other hand, was the first indication to my 10-year-old mind that not all games are all that great. It couldn't get the story right, and didn't have fun gameplay like Bionicle Heroes to justify not getting it right. The graphics I didn't care much about back then, so I was taken aback by how horribly they've aged.
Strangely enough, I beat the Tahu Nuva level very quickly, if not on the first try back then. Gamecube games can't get updates, so it's not like EA/Argonaut could push an update that made the level impossible. I honestly have no idea what changed that made it so difficult.
I'm curious as to what would have happened if the game had time to be developed to completion. The original intent was to have all six Toa Mata and all six Toa Nuva plus Takanuva be playable. How would they do the levels in a way that the Nuva level isn't just a retread of the Mata level? Would on-rails only Toa Kopaka and Pohatu have gotten proper levels like the others? Would the story be told in the proper, canon way? Would they fill in that weird void in Onua's head? Who knows. The deadline was concrete, given how 2004 was a flashback to long before any of the events of the story told thus far, so unless development started at the beginning of 2003, I suspect Argonaut was in an Anthem situation where they wasted too much time, hit crunch time, and squeezed out this abomination. It's the same publisher, after all.
From what I've seen of the leaked and repaired beta for the cancelled Bionicle: Legend of Mata Nui game, that game, with incomplete assets and all, far outclasses this one. Sadly, I can't get my computer to run it. Strangely enough, Lego didn't want that game to be released because it "failed to meet their quality standards", but THIS game made it through?
