Thundercats video game series#

The cat’s sword swings feel totally disconnected from their targets, carrying zero sense of impact as the blade slices in front of enemy character models with only the vaguest trace of an “explosion” effect to demonstrate a strike.

Playing as Lion-O (obviously), ThunderCats‘ victims go from short stage to short stage, mindlessly hacking at identical opponents who attack in a predictable fashion and are more than happy to line up for their own lumps.

Thundercats video game series#

However, unlike games that use the retro aesthetic to communicate a developer’s love for bygone years, ThunderCats exploits it to cut corners, skimp on features, and ultimately provide a bland, tacky series of one-note levels. With its substandard graphics, featuring largely featureless character models and muddy, flat scenery, the game looks like a slightly below average SEGA Genesis title, and plays like a dumbed-down Golden Axe.įrom its visuals to its distinctly dated music, it’s clear Aspect Digital was attempting to evoke a “retro” feel. ThunderCats is a simple beat-’em-up-style platformer, and when I say simple, I mean this wouldn’t even look advanced in the early ’90s. Maybe somebody was hoping it would sell well and reignite interest? That’s sadly not going to happen, because ThunderCats for the DS is pure, unfettered garbage. With the show now buried, it seems like a bit of a waste to release an official licensed tie-in. Cartoon Network had no faith in the series and it never got a second season. Unlike most of the property rehashes that account for a worrying amount of modern entertainment, the new ThunderCats series was actually pretty well regarded and, from what I saw of it, deserved the praise. The ThunderCats reboot was, by most accounts, a tragedy.