Choujin Sentai Jetman

Does anyone remember the time when Power Rangers was popular? Well, believe it or not, it hit Japan too. Actually, I've heard there's a niche porn group doing Power Rangers porn, but thats not important- whats important is, it was just as corny there.

Okay, so flash back to the era of the NES. What do you think they made?

...Of course, a Choujin Sentai Jetman (Superman Jetman, as a bastardized translation) game.


This game reminds me a lot of Power Rangers not just because of the name and the attitude. It reminds me of them because THEY LOOK LIKE POWER RANGERS.


Okay, now to the game.

The game itself is not half bad. It sorta reminds me of Ninja Gaiden for the NES in the sense that the character is very small and has a sword. I think you can choose a character with a gun or claw, but I chose the gray dude which had a sword. So there.

The game itself is very easy. If I didnt manage to kill something in one hit, I jumped over it. Thats right: The people in this game have the stunning ability to jump 5 stories high. Unlike in my upcoming Captain Planet review, you actually LIVE for god's sake. In fact, I'd be inclined to say this game is too easy. But who am I to judge, the first levels of Super Mario Brothers were easy, and the later ones were pretty hard.


And here we come to the part of the game where I almost cried: The robot battles. Far be it for any Japanese person to go without having huge cyborgs run around kicking each other's asses ever since the Gundam series, so this is no exception. Except I think this thing is one mirror with arms. I don't know.


Anyway, the game stays the same: Hit the mirror until it explodes. In fact, I guarantee you 99.9% of the robot battles in this game follow the "Hit it till it goes boom" pattern. Again, far be it for me to challenge Japan's love for big robots.


Oh yeah, and at the end of the robot battle, whateverthehell mech you are fires its hand at the enemy as a finishing thing. Being as I've never seen this show, I suppose that might be some sort of trademark move. Whatever it was, it did a lot of flashing.

In fact, the robot battles have a lot of flashing in general. If I was epileptic, I would have had a seizure. In fact, it looked literally like this:

Between the arm firing off, the robots flashing, the background flashing, and the screen flickering, I was about to drool and pass out- and I'm not even epileptic. I suppose its like any Japanese mech show, but DAMN- thats a little much.

Overall, I give this one star. The core idea of it is dumb, but the engine is OK. If you wanna play something like this, go play the (much better) Ninja Gaiden.

1 star(s) out of 5

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