So after dealing with, or more like ignoring, my save data problems with Mario RPG for the March Gamers Challenge I moved on to The Simpsons Hit and Run for the Gamecube. I've had this game for quite some time, and I always loved it, but I never did get around to beating it. Now usually I would have to make some lame excuse as to why, but for this particular game I think I can safely blame it on the difficulty of some of the missions.
Take this mission for example:
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Getting to the halfway point of the mission was not so hard, but regardless of how fast I made it to point B, I have only 50 seconds to get back to where I started. I think it would have made much more sense to reward the player for getting to point B faster with just a little bit more time, otherwise why not just make the time limit three minutes instead of two minutes and ten seconds and then 50 seconds to get back?
The game is just not forgiving in the least. To use a horrible analogy that I used while I was live streaming, the game is almost like Olympic Ice Skating. If you mess up just one time, you're done. Game over. You lose. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate a good challenge in a game, but this game just got plain tedious at points. Being challenging is one thing, but being flat out redundant is another.
Other than the sometimes unnecessary difficulty this game is quite fun, despite the reputation that Simpsons games tend to receive. The dialogue is humorous, the world is nearly identical to the real TV show, and even those things aside, the driving mechanics are just plain fun.
But by far my most favorite part? Running over people.
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