Wha Happun? (Matt McMuscles)

Now that's a redunant description.

You'd think they'd use Rival Schools, Plasma Sword, and the like as a reference for making Final Fight Revenge.

Wondering how long it'll be until we see stuff about Skull & Bones, someone in the game thread for it was sharing some of its development history and it seems perfect in the most tragic way possible for a Wha Happun?.

Say, has he done Babylon's Fall?

Not yet, and yet that feels like an age ago already, geez.

In today's episode of Wha Happun?, Matt goes through the development history of Rare's spooky romp, Grabbed by the Ghoulies.

Matt's been playing giant monster games on the Flophouse channel all week, because of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire coming out. So, I'm like 90% sure we're getting a Wha Happun? for Skull Island: Rise of Kong.

That gba Godzilla game was rad

A Wha Happun? video on Skull Island: Rise of Kong? Not today. But what we do get is a Wha Happun? video on Godzilla Unleashed.

I was actually wondering if there was an interesting story behind that game, considering its bad reception. I had a hell of a time playing the damn thing on my PS2 and yet I still beat it! And I couldn't even win one of the battles.

On this edition of The Worst Fighting Game, Kronos, previously known for the series' original champion Criticom, strikes again with Cardinal Syn.

I've always wondered why western devs didn't take to Capcom or other Japanese devs on how to do fighting games. They were all MK clones.

Probably a combination of Follow the Leader and racism.

Ha, I remember actually playing this one way back when. A buddy had rented it one weekend and we'd spent a night messing around with it.

At the time we'd thought the openings were cool. I still remember the jester dude's where he was getting abused by the king or whomever and just goes ballistic and kills them with a mace complete with very turn-of-the-century gratutious blood splash on the screen.

We never got very far. I remember it being distinctly hard to actually play. We'd played 3d fighters before, but that was one just, like Matt said, really unresponsive.

Predator: Concrete Jungle — Overambitious design leading to a final product made of hastily repurposed assets

This week, Matt talks about Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League!

A game that took...14 years to get off the ground, oh boy.

Seeing a Wha Happun? video for such a recent game already was oof. Then seeing it was a 35 minute video was a bigger oof.

...It's one of those things where you have to just sit back, and figure that with how... insanely early on the idea of this being an IP they were trying to peddle originated... exactly what the fuck was going on with Warner Bros's heads, even back then. Why... did they want this game so damn badly?

I mean, you could ask the same of Daedalic, who made Gollum.

Was a matter of time.

Although WB has nothing to do with Gollum or Middle Earth nowadays.

Suicide Squad officially being a failure, all these videos dragging its corpse is just gravy

You have to wonder if someone above was either just too pigheaded to admit a mistake or such a Suicide Squad fanboy that they would have their pet project no matter what, reality be damned. This was like Detrimental Determination: The Game.

Or both.

In another universe, this game was shelved for a tax break and Coyote vs Acme came out to rave reviews and big box office money

They had the idea of this game more than a decade ago, and crossed the point of no return way too long ago, so they could only take the punch.

If the concept of the game was formalized around the release of the Ayer Squad movie, then this game born from the darkest period in DC Comics.

Darker and edgier storytelling, focus on evil/more flawed versions of the heroes, Harley Quinn overexposure.

It's a time-capsule of all the worst trends of DC in recent memory