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00:00Welcome to Mojo Plays, and today we're taking a look at the 10 Worst Video Game Crossovers.
00:12These were the times where no fandom was happy with the end result.
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00:28Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite
00:40On the surface, it seemed as if Marvel vs. Capcom was ready to evolve alongside modern
00:45fighting games, with a new art style, new cinematic story mode, and a revert back to
00:50the original game's 2v2 format.
00:53Even though Infinite does feel good to play, everything else about it is so lackluster.
00:58Much of the roster is just ripped from MVC3, there isn't any impact behind hits, combos
01:04or hyper combos, and the story mode is a freaking trainwreck of cringey dialogue and poorly
01:11explained plotlines.
01:12MVCI got such a bad rap from fans that it effectively killed the franchise for almost
01:18an entire decade before we got the MVC collection in 2024.
01:28Air Guys – God Bless the Ring
01:37For a 3D arena fighter, Air Guys is a pretty decent game.
01:41The controls could be a little less janky and stilted, but for the most part, it's
01:46serviceable.
01:47The only issue with this game, however, is its handling of the Final Fantasy 7 cast.
01:51Air Guys lets you play as Cloud, Tifa, Sephiroth, Yuffie, Vincent, and Zack, but there's just
01:57one big problem with all these guest characters.
02:01They all play the same, and have moves that do not fit their characters whatsoever.
02:06Look, we can kind of see Tifa pulling off a suplex or piledriver, but Cloud or Yuffie
02:13locking someone in an armbar or headlock is something neither of them would ever do.
02:18Don't they all have large, bladed weapons they can use instead?
02:27Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
02:36At the time, this was truly one of the most bizarre crossovers we had seen.
02:41Warner Bros. is really okay with seeing Scorpion roast Batman alive and Wonder Woman getting
02:47blown up to bits by Sonya Blade, well, not entirely.
02:51While the awkward controls were enough to make this crossover unsavory, MKVDC's true
02:57claim to infamy was in how it baby proofed all of the Mortal Kombat aspects.
03:02Tell us, what kind of a Mortal Kombat game would it be, crossover or not, if the finishing
03:08moves cannot have any blood or viscera on screen?
03:13Couple that with a story plagued by the lazy, worlds colliding and dooming each other stakes,
03:18and MKVDC proved to be much worse than it could have been.
03:30Nicktoons MLB
03:37Already Nicktoons MLB is off to a horrible start just by premise alone.
03:43You want to make a video game where outlandish Nickelodeon characters are playing alongside
03:48realistic looking Major League Baseball players?
03:52Okay, but what about this game makes it a Nickelodeon video game outside of just appearance?
03:58Well, nothing really.
04:00Only some of the roster has special abilities, and even if you want just a team of Nicktoons
04:05characters, the game won't let you do that, you can only choose 5.
04:09The ballparks don't even have anything interesting going on that isn't just visuals, it's
04:13just a bland mess made only for players who love baseball and Nickelodeon cartoons, not
04:19one or the other.
04:26Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games
04:36The Mario & Sonic franchise is decent for the most part.
04:40They may only be mid-collections of minigames, but they can be entertaining to play once
04:45in a blue moon.
04:46As for Sochi 2014, this was the absolute worst entry in the entire franchise.
04:52Whereas the first Winter Olympics entry in the series was a fun introduction of the event,
04:57Sochi 2014 felt like just a soulless cash grab.
05:01Not only was the selection of events mundane and pretty much the same as the previous game,
05:06but the controls somehow got worse compared to the previous game.
05:10We're not quite sure how you pull that off, but ever since this entry, the Mario & Sonic
05:16games have suffered from a pretty middling reputation now, even after Tokyo 2020 made
05:21its way to Switch.
05:29PlayStation Move Heroes
05:31No, it is not the last of the mundane minigame-centric crossovers, but as far as PlayStation is concerned,
05:42this was one of Sony's worst outings.
05:44PlayStation Move Heroes finally made our dreams come true by putting Sly, Jack, Daxter, Ratchet,
05:51and Clank, and Bentley, into one game, teaming up to save their respective worlds from calamity.
05:58Unfortunately, this was not the epic adventure we had been hoping for.
06:02PlayStation Move Heroes turned out to be nothing more than a slew of boring platforming and
06:07combat challenges that, for some reason, could only be done with the PlayStation Move controllers.
06:14Which barely worked half of the time.
06:17Can you really expect us to suffer through a handful of hours of broken controls and
06:21Sly looking gross as hell?
06:23Nah, dude.
06:24Send it back.
06:25PlayStation All-Stars was worth the wait compared to this.
06:34Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion
06:36Speaking of Smash Bros. copycats, Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion made the right
06:51calls on which characters to include.
06:54For the most part.
06:55It's kinda confusing my chowder isn't here, but whatever.
06:58Even though every character mirrored someone from Nintendo's famed fighting franchise,
07:03the sheer lack of originality wasn't the problem here.
07:07It was the lack of refinement.
07:08Punch Time Explosion's animations and physics were so out of whack that it makes the game
07:12look like a technical mess.
07:15Many of the animations look like they were only keyframed, while visual and audio effects
07:19often cut each other off randomly.
07:21Honestly, you'd think we were playing an alpha build with this game.
07:33Funko Fusion
07:41While our previous entries were technical messes or simply failed in providing quality
07:45gameplay, Funko Fusion is, well, a mash of both problems and more.
07:52Here we have a game that wants to be a third person shooter, but also a platformer, but
07:56also a puzzle game, but also a boss gauntlet, but also a collectathon, but also melee combat
08:01oriented, but also open world, if possible.
08:05While the game only saw minor visual bugs, Funko Fusion's biggest crime here, though,
08:10is the simple lack of direction and focus.
08:13And what better way to display that than the IP selection for this massive crossover?
08:17When you have IPs appealing to kids like Five Nights at Freddy's and He-Man mixing in
08:22with more adult IPs like Hot Fuzz, The Thing, and Invincible, we gotta ask, who's your
08:29demographic?
08:30Spyro Orange, The Cortex Conspiracy, and Crash Bandicoot Purple, Ripto's Rampage.
08:49When it comes to crossovers between two specific video game IPs, both Spyro fans and Crash
08:55fans have a deep love and appreciation for each other.
08:58However, that same passion was not represented in Crash Purple and Spyro Orange.
09:03While both feature some 2D platforming gameplay, most of your time is spent playing uneventful
09:08minigames that somehow get Crash and Spyro to team up to foil their villain's plot.
09:13Yeah, nothing about these games makes any sense, and the sheer mundanity caused both
09:18fandoms to reject this fantasy we once desired.
09:22At least we've seen the two together in later, significantly better games like Skylanders
09:26Imaginators and Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled.
09:33Jump Force What was to be the biggest celebration of
09:41Shonen Jump's history became one of the worst games we ever saw in 2019.
09:47Jump Force was the weirdest and ugliest crossover game to have come out at the time.
09:53Why would you want your manga and anime characters looking as realistic as they are here?
09:59What was arguably worst about Jump Force wasn't the visuals, or the bloated story, not even
10:05the lackluster level design.
10:06No, it was mainly the gameplay itself.
10:10This was a fighting game that required absolutely no strategy here.
10:14You could practically button mash your worries away, as every character had a light attack,
10:18a heavy attack, a dodge, a block, and maybe a ranged attack.
10:22It's a 3D arena brawler with absolutely no thought put into it.
10:25The only credit we can give it is how it managed to make Yugi a viable fighter against Goku.
10:40What's the worst video game crossover you've played?
10:42Did it make our list?
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