![]() ![]() Researchers are astonished to find that the area of land lost to the earthquake is exactly the size of the meteor which caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. A great earthquake rocks the Yucatan Peninsula causing an area of land 400 kilometers in diameter to sink into the ocean, leaving behind only a small island at the exact center of the sunken area. ![]() The Japanese release on the other hand goes for a more traditional fixed camera often used in other horror games such as Resident Evil, though it’s a bit unwieldy for a different reason.Įven the camera wants to escape from this game. The western version utilizes an awkward behind-the-character camera before the over-the-shoulder camera came to be in vogue and lacking any direct camera control causes it to be incredibly unwieldy at all times. While all versions of the game have a terribly sloppy and awkward control scheme, it’s a bit less awkward if one is not playing the western releases. With lead character voicing by Ryan Drummond and the late Deem Bistrow in all regions of the game, it’s a bit difficult to not think of Blue Stinger as “Sonic and Eggman’s Bogus Journey”. Published in Japan by Sega and Activision everywhere else, the game was released in 1999 by developer Climax Graphics, (later rebranded to Crazy Games like the diamonds they are) Blue Stinger is one of two games released before the development house was shut down, the other game being the ever entertaining Illbleed.īlue Stinger is an attempt at a horror game which succeeds only by the metric that it’s a game-designer’s worst nightmare. Critically and collectively panned for being one of the worst games to ever grace the Sega Dreamcast launch line-up, (available in the US one whole week before the Dreamcast launched!) Blue Stinger manages to be a game that’s lovable despite being atrocious. ![]() A game like you does not come about often enough. ![]()
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