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You turn on the game and you are taken to one of my favorite things; unskippable credits... whoever invented these things is one of my biggest enemies and since the game was programmed by Mark Nicely, I have a new target. At the same time some music that is... actually pretty good, at least by Game Boy standards is playing. After the unstoppable credits finish you are taken to a bizarre frame of Shaq fighting the game boss Sett
I say bizarre because it looks like Shaq has a ballerina slipper on. The main menu lists 3 items; SHAQ FU this is the regular game, DUEL MODE I tried this and I really can't tell what it is, and OPTIONS if you don't know what these are, you shouldn't be here. As Soon as I pressed the up button on the menu, I heard what is one of the worst sound effects I have ever heard, if I had head phones on while playing this, I probably would've died. Options are just your typical options and duel mode is stupid, so I just chose the only remaining option "SHAQ FU".The game started me off with a very... determined looking Shaquille O'Neal
is it just me or do his arms look incredibly disfigured? The fighting portion starts and... the graphic aren't too bad. This game has 6 different characters in the "SHAQ FU" mode each more difficult than the last, evolving from humans to aliens to monsters. But this game suffers from one fatal flaw, the same fatal flaw the Primal Rage port on the Game Boy suffered from; you can beat the whole game using one move. Here is the strategy that I beat the entire game with: 1.) Corner your opponent (easy, they usually just flip over you into the corner anyway) 2.) Hold down ↓ (Down) and keep mashing the B button 3.) If they get out of the corner just face them and keep tapping, they all ways eventually walk up to you 4.) If they shoot some projectile at you hold Down and Right and you'll activate Shaq's shield. This makes the whole game incredibly easy (If you fight regularly the game gets very repetitive and annoying). I would talk more about each character you fight but... they're all just generic fighting game characters. When you beat the game you are greeted by "Happy Shaq"
who looks so incredibly proud of his triumphant victory. when you reach the victory screen you can press any button to take you back to some credits... that you can skip! Holy crap! This game actually does have a prize, it didn't really make this game worth playing but hey, it's something.I played this game throughout my childhood thinking it was really good (oh God why?) and now looking back on it, it's not as good as I remember it. Playing a fighting game as Shaq and liking it requires a very specific appeal... an appeal for bad games. The controls in this game aren't bad they're actually pretty good, and the graphics aren't terrible either. This game is just too easy and has too many flaws for me to give it a high rating. But hey, deep down in my heart, where ever my childhood is in there, I still have high nostalgia for this game.
4/10
