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ClayFighter Sculptor’s Cut would probably be fun for your offensive uncle – Destructoid

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For here or to go?

I bet you have a few childhood video games that you look back and think, “What in my sweet mind convinced me it was good?” Luckily I don’t have many, or maybe I’m just in denial. San Francisco Rush was really so good, right?

Oh, but there is. ClayFighter Sculptor’s Cup, for example. I know what you are thinking, surely I mean ClayFighter 63 ⅓, right? No. I played it when I was a kid, but never owned it. Sculptor’s Cup, however, I tore myself away from Blockbuster as they sold off some of their old games. Looking back, that’s smart, kid. The game has astronomical prices these days, but it’s important to remember: just because it’s an expensive game doesn’t make it a good one.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about ClayFighter 63 ⅓ was the third base entry in the Clayfighter series and the first on the N64. It was not well received. Among other complaints, some of the fighters who were announced until their release were not even listed. Lady Liberty, Hobocop, Zappa Yow Yow Boyz, Lockjaw and High Five. Also, the camera sucked, the animation was choppy, and it was generally dull. It is to say charity.

Sculptor’s Cup was a special follow-up edition that reimplemented the deleted characters and made some small fixes. Except for Hobocop, but we’ll see why he’s not in there. There’s even an interesting theme song to kick things off, and honestly, that’s the best thing about the game.

Sculptor's Cup What?

While I’m no stranger to the genre, I feel like I have to reveal that I’m not really a fighting game pro. I know my quarter circles and my load movements, but I couldn’t tell you about hitboxes or frames. I can chain a combo, but I usually forget about it when I inevitably move on to the next game.

With that in mind, I can still tell you that the N64 Clayfighter games are garbage. They are slow, clunky, and gooey. Part of the problem is that the animation is junk. Some attacks seem to be missing entire frames of animation, others that you could hardly call animated. The movement of a projectile can look exactly like a close range attack, so the clues are everywhere.

Clay sculptor’s cup plays like a budget mash of several games of the genre. The one he seems the toughest ape is Killer instinct, with its obnoxious announcer that shouts names based on how many consecutive hits you get. “Triple brown betty combo”, “Little Girly Combo” and many more. The fact that it invites comparison with these games is a bit annoying. At least he doesn’t have the nerve to laugh at other contemporaries – just reference them. It would probably have been agony to watch.

Sumo Santa Sculptor Cup

ClayFighter’s humor is hard enough to digest. Back then, I would swear it was the funniest thing etched on silicon. I would go so far as to quote it, as humiliating as it is to think of it now, but now I see it as it is; not just juvenile, but offensive.

Of course, when I was 10, I saw myself thinking that a half-naked and overly obese Santa Claus named Sumo Santa was funny. When he… sits on it… oh, my God… I can’t. OK. The Claytality where he sits on top of his opponent and then… kicks them out of his… out of his buttocks in the form of a series of gibs accompanied by a farting sound. Maybe it was… no. Oh, my gosh, that’s the level of humor in the game. Boogerman makes an appearance in Sculptor’s Cup as a fighter, and he fits in perfectly, I guess.

Sculptor Cut Racism

It gets worse, however, when Clayfighter brings out the obvious racism. I mean, we can designate the Zappa Yow Yow Boyz and Houngan as insensitive to indigenous cultures and African diaspora religions, but that’s debatable. I imagine. Not really, but maybe that’s more excusable than Kung Pow.

Ah, yes, Kung Pow. Bruce Lee’s parody intersected with a horribly offensive stereotype of a Chinese chef. His moves are all named after Chinese-American dishes and he launches them with a fake accent that would make Mickey Rooney blush. His voice was made by Jack Bennett in what has to be one of the lowest points of his career as a voice actor. This guy was Johnny Bravo. He probably voiced someone in your favorite cartoon. Here he mixes his Ls with Rs.

The sad fact is that the voice expressed Sculptor’s Cup It’s incredible. Besides Jack Bennett, there are people like Jim Cummings, Rob Paulsen, Frank Welker, Tress MacNeille, and Dan Castellaneta. It’s all your Saturday morning cartoons right there. It is regrettable. There should be a law against this kind of talent abuse.

What’s really funny is that Hobocop apparently received the ax from Nintendo, which viewed the character as unresponsive to the homeless. This is probably true since he was portrayed as drunk and disheveled. But then we have Kung Pow, and I would like an explanation. Like a wreck that has been empowered to fight evil is not allowed, but an Asian cartoon straight out of the 1940s Popeye the cartoon is okay? Where’s the line here?

No more racism

The “Claytalities” – an obvious play on Mortal Kombat’s Fatalities – are unnecessary and horrible. Most of them just involve the victim spilling a lot of gossip. Others make them stretch or deflate. There is one worth it, but it’s rare.

To be fair, Mortal Kombat has come up with the concept that most of the characters are physiologically similar. They probably have a head, heart, and spine – all you need for a macabre finisher. In Clayfighter, they can be a disembodied hand, a drop, or three guys at a time, so you can’t assume they have a spine you can tear off. Still, it would’ve been less exciting if they’d left Klaytalities out entirely or, you know, if they’d come up with an original idea. It may be a lot to ask.

Yes...

Clay sculptor’s cup might not be the worst fighting game out there. It might not even be the worst fighting game on N64. But if an N64 game was going to break the $ 1,000 mark in the collector’s market, it shouldn’t be this one. Why not Razor Freestyle Scooter? It was a Blockbuster exclusive, and it didn’t make me want to cringe backwards. It was awful, but it doesn’t seem to have impacted the value of Clay sculptor’s cup.

Otherwise, ClayFighter Sculptor’s Cup belongs to the same dumpster as other failed fighting games, which are already stacked high enough. Still, I don’t regret hanging onto it when I was a kid. Reflections of my bad taste are part of my growth in the hobby, just as valid as the times I got it right. Also, I’m not so proud that I can’t look back and say, “Kids are stupid, and I was no exception. “

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Zoey handley

Zoey is passionate about video games. She has played video games her entire life and is a lover of new and retro games. She enjoys digging in the dirt and picking out the games that are perfect if you clean them up a bit.

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