Shit Game Time: AKIRA (Amiga), anyone like this game?

ZEUSDAZ · 02 July 2021, 21:22

It's Friday!,...and what better way to start the weekend off with a brand new Shit Game Time video review.

This time I'll be playing and Shit-rating "Akira" on the Amiga A500, this is a paid request by youtuber "Ray C", I hope you enjoy it

[ Show youtube player ]

gimbal · 02 July 2021, 23:41

It actually looks kind of alright, but whoever designed that deserves a pineapple up the bum.

Where is that worst Amiga game thread, I may need to change my vote.

fatbob_gb · 03 July 2021, 01:15

This game is so shite there should be whole new section for it "Worst license ever" - although Zoids on the Spectrum might just edge it to the #1 slot

Matt_H · 03 July 2021, 15:29

How this one was ever allowed to leave the developers’ offices is a mystery that will never be solved.

Foebane · 04 July 2021, 00:24

It took me no time at all to google a longplay video of this game, and here are all the other stages - looks like Zeus barely scratched the surface:

[ Show youtube player ]

About pronunciation:

In Japanese, all the syllables are pronounced equally, so you would NOT say something like "akeera" as others have done, but "ah-ki-ra". Most people have no problem saying Tetsuo's name, but I've heard people say Kaneda's name like "kaneyda", when it's pronounced more like the way you would say "canada", like "kaneda".

The most embarrassing aspect of this is that the first official English dub of Akira was made using these wrong pronunciations, and it really shows, nor did it even use the correct words in translation, like in the following:

There is a scene after the biker gang clash in which Kaneda's biker gang are hauled in front of the vocational college principal for a dressing-down, and the sports coach is there handing out punishments in the form of hits to each of their heads, and in the poor dub I mentioned, he shouts "Shut up!" each time. A later, better dub corrected the mistake, and now he says "Discipline!" as he hits each student, which makes a lot more sense.

Back to this game, and it looks like one of the many extremely poor videogame adaptations of excellent movies that tarnished many a platform's game library.

Best stick to the movie, you'll have a much better experience.

Havie · 04 July 2021, 09:29

Good find and what is interesting is I guess that most of us thought the game was just a rubbish scrolling motorbike game but actually this was just the introductory level and actually the game is really a run and gun shooter!

Frankly Zeus needs to redo his review...I think we will all enjoy him suffering further.

gimbal · 04 July 2021, 22:46

It's like a reverse Legend of the Lost.

Akira: first level = WHY!? Rest of the game = oh fun run & gun (and from what I can see a decent horizontal shoot em up section at the end).

LOTL: First level = Oh fun, shooting down airplanes! Rest of the game = WHY!?

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02 July 2021, 21:22	#1
ZEUSDAZ Registered User Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: England Posts: 744	Shit Game Time: AKIRA (Amiga), anyone like this game? It's Friday!,...and what better way to start the weekend off with a brand new Shit Game Time video review. This time I'll be playing and Shit-rating "Akira" on the Amiga A500, this is a paid request by youtuber "Ray C", I hope you enjoy it [ Show youtube player ]

02 July 2021, 23:41	#2
gimbal cheeky scoundrel Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Spijkenisse/Netherlands Age: 42 Posts: 6,919	It actually looks kind of alright, but whoever designed that deserves a pineapple up the bum. Where is that worst Amiga game thread, I may need to change my vote.

03 July 2021, 01:15	#3
fatbob_gb Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Preston UK Posts: 72	This game is so shite there should be whole new section for it "Worst license ever" - although Zoids on the Spectrum might just edge it to the #1 slot

03 July 2021, 15:29	#4
Matt_H Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 945	How this one was ever allowed to leave the developers’ offices is a mystery that will never be solved.

04 July 2021, 00:24	#5
Foebane Banned Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Cardiff, UK Age: 51 Posts: 2,871	It took me no time at all to google a longplay video of this game, and here are all the other stages - looks like Zeus barely scratched the surface: [ Show youtube player ] About pronunciation: In Japanese, all the syllables are pronounced equally, so you would NOT say something like "akeera" as others have done, but "ah-ki-ra". Most people have no problem saying Tetsuo's name, but I've heard people say Kaneda's name like "kaneyda", when it's pronounced more like the way you would say "canada", like "kaneda". The most embarrassing aspect of this is that the first official English dub of Akira was made using these wrong pronunciations, and it really shows, nor did it even use the correct words in translation, like in the following: There is a scene after the biker gang clash in which Kaneda's biker gang are hauled in front of the vocational college principal for a dressing-down, and the sports coach is there handing out punishments in the form of hits to each of their heads, and in the poor dub I mentioned, he shouts "Shut up!" each time. A later, better dub corrected the mistake, and now he says "Discipline!" as he hits each student, which makes a lot more sense. Back to this game, and it looks like one of the many extremely poor videogame adaptations of excellent movies that tarnished many a platform's game library. Best stick to the movie, you'll have a much better experience.

04 July 2021, 09:29	#6
Havie Registered User Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: UK Posts: 1,895	Good find and what is interesting is I guess that most of us thought the game was just a rubbish scrolling motorbike game but actually this was just the introductory level and actually the game is really a run and gun shooter! Frankly Zeus needs to redo his review...I think we will all enjoy him suffering further.

04 July 2021, 22:46	#7
gimbal cheeky scoundrel Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Spijkenisse/Netherlands Age: 42 Posts: 6,919	It's like a reverse Legend of the Lost. Akira: first level = WHY!? Rest of the game = oh fun run & gun (and from what I can see a decent horizontal shoot em up section at the end). LOTL: First level = Oh fun, shooting down airplanes! Rest of the game = WHY!?

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