*bumpity bump*
After finishing a recent round of Super Metroid, I felt myself wanting to revisit some personal favorites from the retro time period set out in this journal. I'm not going to get super in-depth, but I will write what I can of the games I want to mention. If anyone wants to co-opt any of these and do a more in-depth review, you're more than welcome to do so.
But we're talking about what? We're talking about
Blast Corps, a game where your objective is to destroy buildings and blow **** up the entire time. Oh, I guess you destroy everything in sight so that the nuclear-missile carrier has a clear path and doesn't do it first, in much more dramatic and serious fashion.
Blast Corps (N64)
There are some racing elements throughout the game as well, but generally, you spend very little time being a human as you take control of dump trucks, bulldozers, missile-launch vehicles and futuristic mech bots with an appetite for demolition.
[The J-Bomb is my favorite. Super-fast jet packs, flies high, smooth navigation, destroys buildings easily]
There is a story to this game, as you are taking orders from Command, but it's not essential to gameplay. Your side missions include saving humans, finding all rdus (light beacons), and you do collect money along the way, but again, those are largely secondary to the insane fun you will have being your own wrecking crew. I don't recall off the top of my head if the money even matters (I think it's more of a tally than functional).
There are three medal rounds of completion -- bronze, silver, and gold -- with some of the levels having time countdowns. The faster the completion, the easier it is to obtain gold. And while getting the top medal for each level is challenging, the developers didn't make it impossible, so as a player it's actually fun to go back and get golds, which significantly adds to
Blast Corps's replay value.
All in all, I think this is one of the N64's best and most underrated games.