Look at this time janitor trash cat. Look at him. To newfags not in the know, this was Microsoft's attempt at making a competitor to Sonic, they made a really interesting game centered around time, you could do everything with it, you could pause, fast forward, rewind, record your own actions to assist in puzzles or add extra damage, and whenever he lost a life his actions were rewinded to before he lost his last HP based on if you had a Retry.
The game played like a puzzle platformer, and anything that dropped, like time crystals that you matched up for powers, stayed on the field. Getting rid of all the time monsters then taking home valuable trash was the general objective, so you had to pick and choose what trash you used, what order you collected time crystals in for powers, and generally the levels were very well designed from a gameplay standpoint.
This wasn't a "Bubsy" situation, his games (all two of them) were good, he just got shafted because Microsoft had no idea how to run a mascot in the industry and cut the budget for the second game in half.
To give this some perspective, it already had a "Sonic Forces" in the second game, which was all about making your own trashcat and customizing him, sending him through levels.
If they had actually marketed Blinx's games properly, they'd have had a cash cow.
And guess what, they dropped the trademark ages ago, if any of you really wanted to, hell if ANYBODY wanted to, you could make a game with a trash collecting time janitor cat with nothing to stop you.
Ethan Flores
OwO
Jackson Howard
Not exactly mascots, but it was something unique how Jak and Vex were advertising ps2 in the west and modern 3d graphics of that day. Had them on a lot of posters and promotion art for 3d modeling programs.
Josiah Evans
oWo
Juan Moore
uwu
Dominic Moore
He wasn't a competitor to Sonic because Sega was already dead when the Xbox came around. In fact, Sega had some kind of partnership with Microsoft which is why the original duke controller looked like a dreamcast controller, and there were all kinds of Sega games on the first Xbox. I personally figured he was more of a competitor to Ratchet & Clank since that generation was PS2 vs Xbox with the Gamecube doing their thing off in left field.
Aiden Lewis
>Blinx 1 & 2 PC version will never be released because the development workstations they are made on have likely been purged for other projects
Parker Collins
Reminder of the reddit faggot that broke an xbox devkit or the one the one EXTREME faggot that returned the starcraft gold master
Michael Gray
Besides cameo appearances, his last game was in 1990.
Austin Perry
Nah, one exists somewhere but a redditor is gonna find it at a yard sale, gut it, and wipe the hard drive to make his epic gaymur PC that he plays nothing but LoL on.
Camden Bennett
Reminds me of F-Zero
Anthony Nelson
Poor alex, kicked to the curb for the radical hedgehog.
Christopher Foster
Holy shit it's fucking edgelord furry Wolverine Is his game good? I'm on an emulation binge.
you also missed the "time" pun, but I forgot that you probably forgot that Blinx is a time based character.
Jacob Powell
OP don't laugh at yourself. I'm not in the mood since now I'm mad that the only way for Blinx 1 & 2 to get a pc release finally would be a from scratch project which will likely never happen because blinx had a fucking amazing team.
Owen Williams
That's… debatable. Debatable by another person, because I can't actually remember the details of this game.
Camden James
Next level shitpost right here, what a strange post.
Blake Reyes
Speaking of Microsoft, I remember a friend I used to have going on angry rants about how Abe and more specifically Munch could have outright been Xbox mascots, only for Microsoft to opt away from Oddworld in favor of Halo and Master Chief as their representatives.
Josiah Russell
What
Dylan Rogers
You wish you could shitpost half as hard as I can. All I remember is playing Blinx a decade ago and thinking, "god, what a shitty platformer".
Jonathan Gonzalez
If he wasn't in MvC2, he'd be a complete literally who
James Ross
I recall hearing that a big part of what got Blinx dropped was a survey that revealed to them that he was one of the least-liked characters in gaming at the time. I don't recall people hating him that much, but they got super scathing reports and decided to kill it off.
Lucas Price
He deserved better than CURRENT YEAR Crapcom.
Survey, popularity, and trademark, he was created by that guy who help unleashed the Sanic Autism Syndrome and the Xbox kids and teens were more into Master Chief who wasn't supposed to be their Console mascot because they wanted to follow the Nintendo-way of family friendly image, hence why Xbox was known as the dudebro console.
Mason Morris
I played this game for the first time recently. Might be my favourite Capcom beat em up. Why did no one tell me?
Cooper Thomas
Because Capcom is shit when it comes to taking care of all their franchises.
Hunter Ward
I remember him mostly being ignored. Xbox appealed to exactly the kind of people who don't play mascott platformers. The game probably would have served fine on Nintendo or Playstation.
Camden Thompson
vex? dont you mean ratchet and clank?
Luke Wood
It was huge on arcades back in the 90s, it was the first PS1 title I ever owned. You are just a babby.
Levi Long
Way better than Sonic. Just saying.
Jaxson Martinez
But even today, everyone knows Final Fight, everyone Knows Streets of Rage, everyone knows Golden Axe.
Hudson Cruz
Because those haven't been fully abandoned.
Matthew Ward
try Battle Circuit. another god tier capcom beat 'em up
Brayden Garcia
bump
Liam Sullivan
is that a bulge?!!
Grayson Ortiz
OwO
Eli Perez
Thanks for making me feel old OP.
Leo Martin
Y
Aiden Powell
It was pretty forgettable compared to J&D or Mario Sunshine
Landon Hernandez
Sauce
Anthony Thompson
At least Earthworm Jim became a god in Sacrifice.
Jacob Peterson
Rayman. He was Cuphead before Cuphead.
The games looked gorgeous, and "The Great Escape" was really fun. Brings a lot of memories. By all accounts Rayman should be a well known mascot similar to Mario or Sonic, yet for some reason he isn't.
John Moore
Why does 90’s Capcom have the market cornered on fighting game music?
Colton Russell
10/10 tastes.
Brody Edwards
...
Dominic Davis
Bonk.
Nolan Evans
>the only way to find all 7 sacred swords and attain the golden armor and get the true ending is by getting that sword as it's the first one and the rest of the game only has 6 He was awesome.
Eli Myers
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Luis Myers
Blinx is one of the most underwhelming platformers of the 6th gen and of that era in general. I'm still surprised that people latch onto him as if he was like the next coming of Spyro and if only Microsoft tried harder he'd be bigger than Sonic
In reality his first game was mediocre and his second game wasn't much better. By comparison Jak and Daxter was amazing in its first game and blew Blinx completely out of the water. And released a year earlier.
Nicholas Bailey
I just wanted more light hearted collectathons. I hated when they made Jak talk when it first came out and I still say making him talk was a mistake.
Kevin Ramirez
Anyone remember these games? They even got a TV show in 2007 that didn't last long. I've only played pic related, but it was a pretty decent game. Are the other ones worth my time?
Thomas Diaz
Blinx was actually designed by Sonic's original designer, Naoto Oshima. Did his design ability seriously degrade in the 5 or so years since he had designed NiGHTS, or did Microsoft fuck with his creative process to the point where the character turned out to be a mess, OR did Microsoft just take Oshima's first draft and not bother to refine it at all?
Daniel Baker
No. We'll never forget what his eggs smelled like.
David Perry
holy fuckin shit, i hope these games are as good as my childhood remembers, used to play the fuck outta number 2
Hunter Cox
The main character of NiGHTS is just some lanky, faggy clown - what do people like about it?
Chase Campbell
What was the name of that one fucking cat? Alot of us really wanted to fuck for some odd reason. I'm pretty sure time definitely forgot about that but I know some of US didn't forget.
Samuel Foster
Krystal?
Logan Ramirez
No, it was a black and white cat, had a game on the N64 I think.
Asher Hall
Is this it? this was the closest thing I could find so far.
Michael Rodriguez
Do you mean Berri from Conker's Bad Fur Day?
Brandon Parker
If you can get past the rougher graphics and you liked the game play the earlier two are better.
Gavin Howard
So it's a good series then?
Sebastian Sullivan
No, I specifically remember we had a thread about it and everyone really wanted to fuck that cat. Honestly shit it might have been PS1.
Adam Butler
It's entertaining for what it is. I like the humor and general aesthetic and the gameplay was fun though a bit sketchy at times.
Jaxson Gray
Easy
James Evans
Yup that's the one.
Carter Diaz
But there is a fan-made Alex Kidd in Miracle World 2.
Adam Allen
I know everyone on Holla Forums forgot this mascot
Elijah Gonzalez
There is?!
Brody Edwards
Like Sonic but Austria
Andrew Reyes
he's got a new game and remakes on the pc, and it's australian you fucking dip
Blake Diaz
No you fucking dingus Australia is where Arnold Showortnigger is from.
Grayson Watson
Fucking embarassing
Zachary Rodriguez
Loved that game as a kid, never could quite beat the final level though
And people think Cuphead is hard.
Eli Morris
Gex and Dan.
Dylan Johnson
My nigger
Jose Russell
Though this is the better OST
Asher Stewart
I liked the first when I was younger, but when I last played it maybe 2 years ago, I realized how slippery it can feel. Sequel I didn't like very much when I finally got to play it, as a lot of stuff got changed and threw me off. Surprised to hear the budget was slashed rather than bloated, because some of those features seemed to suggest bloat (lotsa cutscenes, customized characters, more structure in levels instead of jumping around on your own with a few messages occasionally).
Rayman got the Spyro treatment of being shoehorned into associating with Ubisoft's Minions (before Minions were a thing). The difference between Spyro and Rayman though is that Rayman got games afterwards while Spyro is only relevant in Skylanders through the Netflix show.
Jackson Reed
The gameplay of NiGHTS is a fluid time & score attack game that's fun and fast as fuck if you're good enough. Doing acrobatic stunts and chaining links together whilst collecting orbs and chips is so mesmerizing and satisfying, with the only off putting thing is the design of the character itself looking weird albeit intentionally since it's supposed to be a dream creature representative of one Jung's concept of the shadow.
Joshua White
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Joshua Robinson
The best three. Sparkster is good too, but kinda lame.
Evan Wilson
You and me both brother. Vectorman is so fucking cool.