10/30/2023 0 Comments Optimus prime voice comparisons![]() So surely there must be something going on here.Īnd for sure, there's definitely something. The other thing the anecdote tells is that, despite, this, people did care, and there was a backlash because of just how much people cared. So that's what we're dealing with: not merely a product for which artistry wasn't expected, it is maybe fair to call it a product from which artistry was deliberately banished. That anybody would care about this toy commercial enough to bother having a backlash at all was simply not part of their calculation. For Hasbro and their Japanese partners at Takara, the reason to do a movie was less for the sake of the movie, than for having a grand-scale clearance event ushering out the old toys and announcing the even better new toys that you could go right to the store and buy on your way home from the theater. None of which should distract from the point: it is a toy commercial, and anything else it might do was a second-order priority in comparison. The Transformers, which aired 98 episodes between 19 (the film was released, and took place, between the second and third seasons), is not the most egregious of these, though it may be the most recognisable, and certainly has had the longest cultural footprint. It has been noted many times that American children's television animation in the 1980s, much more that at any other period in history, was dominated by advertisements: many of the best-loved cartoon series were thinly-veiled toy commercials and sometimes "thinly-veiled" would be paying them a compliment. This tells us the two most important things: first, obviously, that the Hasbro people had absolutely no interest in this film as anything whatsover other than product. The anecdote that I think most faultlessly sums up everything there is to say about The Transformers: The Movie, a 1986 feature cartoon adapted from a television series based upon a toy line, is that the Hasbro toy company executives who paid for it and were very excited to see it usher in a new product line were completely unprepared for the outrageous backlash from upset fans and their parents when the series' main character, a space robot who turns into a semi truck, was killed at the break between the first and second acts (the parents also had a separate backlash, when a film that could not possibly be more narrowly aimed at the 10-and-under set, in addition to killing off a beloved character, had another character yell "oh, shit!"). Yet it's still the best damn Transformers game ever made, and distinguishes itself with excellent presentation and unwavering fan service.A review requested by Jack, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon.ĭo you have a movie you'd like to see reviewed? This and other perks can be found on our Patreon page! Both campaigns are linear, checkpoint-save gauntlets of smashing the same four or five types of robot with a few mini-boss battles, culminating in mechanically cliché but epically presented fights against the mega-Autobot Omega Supreme and Decepticon Godzilla-alike Trypticon. ![]() Also, I wish not all of it were set on Cybertron, since spotting high-tech metal robots against high-tech metal backgrounds is like playing Where's Waldo on a sci-fi construction site.Īfter completing the Decepticon campaign and starting the Autobot missions, I expected a few differences in gameplay, but only the tingly nerd-joy of hearing original Optimus Prime voice actor Peter Cullen's authoritative dialogue made the Autobot campaign different. If not for distractingly low-quality textures, I'd call this a beautiful game. ![]() I love the rhythm of transforming into vehicle form, hitting the turbo boost, jumping at high speed and transforming back to robot form in mid-air to hit the ground running and slash an enemy bot to pieces with an energy sword that lightsabers out of my wrist. But animations, especially for transformations, are spectacular.
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