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Incredible Crisis

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: May 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Such an interesting game was begun. Preeminent for the sense of humor! Music is also the highest. And since one game is collected compactly, the place which does not care about time, either but can do it is also pleased.

THE FUNNIEST GAME EVER ON PLAYSTATION!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you aren't laughing out loud whilst playing this wonderful game, then check your pulse, you may be dead.

The whole game is about a typical Japanese family trying to get home for their Grandmother's birthday. As it turns out, they're going to have the worst day of their lives. A series of comical mini-games provides the player with lot of entertainment, and definitely a smile on their face. With such tie-ins to American movies, games like; "Titanic Away", "Independence Bay", and "Snowboarding with Wolves" you can't help but sit back and enjoy. The graphics are a real pleasure to look at. As cartoony as they look, it adds to the story of this comical day the characters will go through. The cutscenes are wonderfully done, and the game just gives off a great vibe. I strongly recommend this game for anybody!

Excellent...Just Awesome.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game... after seeing a preview for the Japanese version in the Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine. The author had stated that the chances of this one making it to our shores were slim, and I was therefore surprised to find it in the store. I remembered how interesting it had looked in the magazine, so I picked it up (along with Oddworld: Abeýs Exoddus, which is another GREAT game). From the first time I played the game, I knew that it was something different, and I liked it. Not only is the game hilarious (in a Japanese way) and challenging, but it also features great music and an interesting graphical style. I finished it in only a few days, though, which brings me to my only complaint about the game: itýs too short. Other than that, this is one you may want to check out...

Incredible Fun, Incredible Charecters, and A Incredible Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Incredible crisis is a crazy,wacky,funny,and did i say crazy!! It throws minigames at you left and right! and even up and down! It's story is wierd but who can complain! With up to 24 minigames! Thats right 24!!!!!!! But its gameplay is where it comes to its great statues. It has a little bit of everygame. Some of Metal Gear, SSX, DDR , and even does a little spoof on some movies. This game is great for pick up and play action. Even though its short you'll be playing for months!!!!I recomend pick up this game now!!!Weather your into any game this game is a instant crazy classic!!

Cute, fun, and great for puzzle and mini game lovers!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Though I admit that this type of game may not be for everyone, for those who enjoy puzzle games and mini games, this will be highly entertaining. The game is basically a collection of mini games and tasks that are tied together with a storyline about how each of the characters must get back home in time to celebrate grandmother's birthday.

The game starts with the father of the family, and the player engages in a rhythm game type mini game to get the father through his company's employee exercises. After a few more tasks with the father (including an Indiana Jones style scene where you must run out of the path of a wrecking ball), the player also plays as the mother of the family and the two children. The games range from button mashing to strategy (one game involves stealthy movement across a room while staying out of the sight of security cameras), and involve a bunch of wacky scenarios. One scene involves aliens and a game that requires the player to remember button patterns much like the game "Simon." As for the difficulty, though some games may be too difficult for younger children, I played through this game and managed to pass the entire thing in the course of one day. Though some games were challenging, I didn't think they were impossible to overcome.

The graphics are cute, and though not the best, they aren't bad for a PS1 game. I thought this game was funny, quirky, and supplied a nice variety of mini games. I'd definitely recommend it to people who enjoy that kind of gameplay.

Memorable lunacy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 15 / 17
Date: January 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

"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.

The Anti-Mario

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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.

This game rules!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

There are many good things about this game but a few bad. On the upside it is funny without ripping anything off. It boasts of sheer playability and will last you a for a while. On the downside the graphics are very stringy and some levels are almost impossible for lesser gamers.

Hard to beat and Hard tp put down

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is the definition of a button masher.
It is hard. But if you stick with it you will be
rewarded. It is very unique and quirky and at a
bargain bin price you can't pass it up. Good Game

awsome game... and i only played the demo!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

let me start out by saying, i have played the demo at least 10 times now and i still play it, i plan on getting it soon when i get some money, but for now i will stick with the demo, such a fun and replayble game, for me anyway. and the cutscenes are the best they are great looking and funny, the jap language yells used in the game are great to "yewehhhh" don't know if that is how you spell it, but i know how to say it. i love this game, i want a sequel dangit!

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