Incredible Crisis

by Titus

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• ASIN: B0000524NK
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 14, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,683 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

FOR SALE IS PLAYSTATION INCREDIBLE CRISIS THAT IS IN LIKE NEW CONDITION WITH CASE, ART WORK & INSTRUCTION BOOKLET.

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Memorable lunacy, January 7, 2001

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Chris Adamson "invalidname" (Grand Rapids, MI) - See all my reviews
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"Incredible Crisis" strikes me as being more like a book or a movie than the typical game. Most games you'll play until you've mastered the skill-set and achieved all the internal goals (like unlocking characters or seeing different endings), or until you grow bored with them.

"Incredible Crisis" is more like a crazy movie, so inventive that you're enchanted with the question of "what happens next".

The story involves a Japanese family trying to get home early for Grandma's birthday. Along the way they'll face construction accidents, explosions, terrorists, aliens, etc., in situations so bizarrely contrived they have to be seen to be believed.

It's not really about the gameplay -- the dozens of mini-games are simple affairs, sometimes consisting of just pushing the buttons really really fast. The simplicity is a good idea here, since the appeal is the crazy story, not the gameplay. It would be bad narrative if you had to play a mini-game 10 or 20 times to get past it.

The upbeat soundtrack by the "Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra" nicely compliments the delightfully whacked story.

The game has a very Japanese flavor and you have to be open-minded and willing to be won over to enjoy it. Put another way, if you like watching "Iron Chef" on TV's Food Network (either for camp value or in sincere awe), you'll probably like Incredible Crisis. On the other hand, if the last two games you played had the words "Twisted Metal" or "Tomb Raider" in their titles, then you are probably waaaay too mainstream to get into this one.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Funny, but flawed, big time, May 31, 2001

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Ian (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Incredible Crisis (Video Game)

I was interested when I first saw Incredible crisis. It looked so funny I was imediatly hooked. After playing it on a demo disk I was ready to laugh and fall down while playing. Was I satisfied? Well...kinda. Incredible Crisis is a fun but flawed game that needs some serious tinkering before they come out with(I wont spoil it for those of you who have reached the ending). Let me say the good points first. First off this is the funniest game I have ever played, I fell down laughing many times, laughing untill my lungs hurt. The FMV sequences are well done and often the funniest parts of the game. The music is the best part of the game. It is incredibly addictive and you will find yourself humming the music hours after you stopped playing. Well thats all the good parts. Now for the bad parts. Incredible Crisis has 4 serious flaws that seriously inhabited my enjoyment of the game. The first flaw is that there is little replay value, except if you want to see all the FMVs a!gain (Which you cant watch once you finish the game, unlike the mini-games). The second isint that serious but whenever you want to load a game it seems that the game dosent want you to because it always places the cursur on the "Cancel" button. The third flaw is that your fingers will be mush after you finish this game(On the positive side, your fingers will be really strong). And finally the biggest flaw of all. This is way too hard. Some of these games are just insane in terms of difficulty. The elevator of doom, the back rubbing game, and (Shudder) the pound for pound and the Golden pig games. These can be so frusturating you will scream and rip your hair out. I'm talking Throw-your-controller-smash-the-TV-obliterate-the-game-disk frusterating. Still this is a OK game that is more worthy of a rental then a purchase.

The Good:Lots of funny moments, interesting graphics, good music, some entertaining games

The bad: Really puts a strain on fingers

And the! Ugly: INCREDIBLY difficult

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Anti-Mario, January 4, 2001

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Alfred Tam "(b-_-)b" (Staten Island, New York USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Incredible Crisis (Video Game)

I was shocked to see a US release of Incredible Crisis because the game is just so strange and chock full of Japanese humor. It's hardly the type of game someone who has been raised on a steady diet of cutesy mascot-driven platformers would understand, much less embrace.

But there's a lot to like about IC, which is a series of mini-games that range from finger-numbing button mashers to memory and timing tests. The gameplay can be challenging at times but, there are enough slapstick gags and pop culture references to keep you from getting mad.

Thankfully, Titus had the guts to localize IC virtually in tact, Japanese ska soundtrack and all.