I think the Whoville kids are supposed to be saying “big teddy”. Either way, the parents of Whoville really need to teach their kids not to run up and grab strangers.
As a kid playing this game, whenever he said "Ya Grinched!" I always heard it as "Yeah, Grinch!" like he was congratulating himself. Makes more sense than how it actually is.
@@mattaoscorner it’s because they just ported it for those systems, they didn’t change anything beyond that. It’s the same reason that the GameCube port of halo doesn’t suddenly have better environment textures
As owner of the PS1 game, this video brought back so many memories of playing the game growing up. It can be summed up with: I never knew there was a woods, a lake, or a dump.
These reviews are great, but what really sells them is Shane’s voice acting. It’s so unique and animated, he’d be a great voice actor if doesn’t already do that kinda work!
There have been times when I thought they brought in someone else to contribute voices, but every time it turns out to be Shane. His range is incredible. I can't believe he doesn't do professional voice acting at least as a side gig.
The entire Dump land mine area can be done without the jump gadget. Just do a butt pound every time you jump and you'll stay in the air a bit longer and jump farther
Konami is the real Grinch here. They not only stole all the children's and parents money from selling this game, they also stole their time and sanity.
5:10 that's kind of like "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" for the NES. If played as Dr. Jekyll, he has an attack, the cane, with the cane he can poke his adversaries, but if you tried many enemies, it doesn't do anything, some will hurt you if you use the cane on them, the only thing you can defeat with a cane is a bee.
Oh man, I actually had this game as a kid. I loved it at the time. Collecting the blueprints and unlocking and using the gadgets was so much fun. But I had a lot more patience for the jankiness of it all than I would today. I remember even getting quite frustrated at it, but I kept at it. Guess that says something, not sure what though.
I think it says thay kids have a hard time of seeing the bigger picture. Especially if it's regarding one of the 1st games a kid plays. And their curiosity/wonder of the game due to the subject matter. Then later you grow up and realize all the flaws after shedding those rose colored lenses or rather Kid colored lenses. Or some shiz like that idk.
@@bobbysavagehill also the older you get the more picky you become and also the less free time you have, so you definitely have no patience as adult to be trying passing the challenges in a game that is difficult due to developers and game designers incompetence.
Am I truly the only one who remembered this game being amazing? My dad picked me up during his lunch break on our half day before Christmas Break and took me to our local video store and I rented it. Put it on my Christmas list! I LOVED the Grinch Copter, because I loved anything that gave you a flight power. That’s why I liked Yooka-Laylee
It is good. Maybe not as good as sheep raider. But this game put my little brain to the limit as a kid and I loved it. Is hard to find good puzzle games nowadays.
@@BigHailFanHonestly. These guys are like. "You are walking and THERE'S A GAP ON THE FLOOR? And the game DOESN'T TELL YOU TO JUMP!" "You try to pass the level but the ENEMIES ATTACK YOU? WHAT?" "You walk to the door... and IT'S LOCKED? AND THE GAME DOESN'T TELL YOU WHERE THE KEY IS!" It has flaws, but boy do they milk everything!
I cannot imagine my life without Shane and Adam posting these videos. It just fills my soul with joy when I see there is a new Just Bad Games' video on youtube, even when I'm having a terrible day.
This is basically a Just Bad Games: Holiday Special. I love it. Looks like I got one of the things I wanted for Christmas...Shane and Adam torturing themselves more for our own sake.
Heck I've played this game since the year it came out. Had it on the dreamcast and I love it. Fantastic sound track, and I really like the voice actor for the Grinch and Narrator. It's kinda like Mario 64 with its several objectives per level
Same here. Rented it for PS1 when my dad got me from school on my half day before Christmas break! I remembered the levels, the gadgets (GRINCH COPTER), the weird game overs, the disguises.
I get the feeling that this MIGHT be a game reskin. Like, it was in development to be something else but changed to be Grinch themed at the last second.
Oh man, I loved this game as a kid! As janky as it was, I honestly loved that the devs actually expanded something from the movie, rather than having to stick to the 2,5 locations that were in it. I always like when tie-ins don't have to be contained within the restraints of what was approved for the original one. The egg farming thing though? Too real.
I remember the Chronicles of Riddick video game did the same thing, being a standalone title instead of a remake of one of the films. But The Chronicles of Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay was actually good and not divisive like this game is.
Hardly, you have to remember who he stole it from. Those Whovillians are incredible gullible and lack law enforcement. In the game they seems to have a second dump guarded with land mines though so I guess they spent all their money on protecting their garbage while leaving their houses totally unprotected. The only thing the Phantom thieves and Sly Cooper could learn from them is to pick more inept people to rob.
Here’s my head-cannon: The Phantom Thieves went into his snow themed palace, snatched his heart, and that’s why The Grinch returns everything at the end of the story. You can’t tell me this isn’t how it happened.
16:42 "You don't control your forward momentum--it's an on-rails flight!" "You can move higher or lower--and left or right!" Atta Boy, Rerez! Getting into the Dr. Seuss rhyming scheme!
This game was like it was made by the Grinch himself. Everything in this game is from inconsistency toward the movie and game to the atrocious controls and horrific game designs on the background and characters. Guess the Grinch really did ruin Christmas....for gamers and everyone. Edited: I heard the Dreamcast version was better than the PS1 version.
Absolutely adored this game way back! I always found myself just exploring the worlds. Between the game and the 2000 movie, I was in "Grinch mania" lol.
Adam? His normal voice is more like Duddley Puppy. But yeah I’m surprised it sounded like SpongeBob. Would like to hear that in a review for a SpongeBob game.
Hey I truly enjoyed this game... Is more... I could even play it again... But now when my brain grew up older on gaming... WHAT A TERRIBLE DESIGN THAT GAME HAD!!!
I'm always eager to see uploads from Rerez regardless of the topic. In the interest of "Christmas Spirit" though, Ima throw out a few suggestions for games that I think could make good videos. *Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal*-Most infamous Wii shovelware yet to be covered on this channel. *Psybadek*-Bizarre PS1 hybrid of Platforming and "Extreme Sports" with terrible audio and some of the worst controls EVER... *Frogger: The Great Quest*-Hilariously Bad attempt to turn the beloved arcade game into a 3D Platformer (there's also a PS1 Frogger. I kinda liked it, but it has a Notoriously Unfair Difficulty Curve) *YIIK: A Postmodern RPG*-As the title implies, it tries to be a trope subversive game kinda like Omori, Undertale, Yume Nikki or LISA, but doesn't understand what made any of those games work. WHATEVER the next video is, here's hoping for a 2022 that is NOT Just Bad!
@@Invidente7 That is true, Nitro did have a lot to say about that one. Though other games like Charlie's Angels and Sonic R had also been covered multiple times in the past too. I believe Shane said at one point that the best reviews come from if they discover something new about a game that hadn't been talked about before and then make a video so they could bring it up.
Another JBG? Merry Christmas to us! That "ovo" made me snort 😂 I think I remember watching the Game Grumps play this during the holidays one year so it's... uh... nice to see it in more detail, lol.
The Ovo thing is from a constructed language (basically one that was made up but is still real and speakable enough to be recognized by linguists) called Esperanto, in case you didn’t know
You know what I love about you guys? Most TH-camrs intentionally playing bad games review like one or two levels or moments and then say “I can’t take it anymore” and end the video. You guys push all the way through and let everyone see all the game has and exactly how terrible the games are without having to suffer through it ourselves.
(Not true) Fun Fact: The studio that made the PS1 version of this game, Behavior Interactive, actually made this game as an inside joke. Before they got the license to the game, employees would always prank a particular employee, who was nicknamed "Jim", and would shout "Ya Grinched!" after every prank. Once they got the license to the Grinch, they decided to make the entire game one big prank by making the game too complicated and unplayable. When the game was finished, they made Jim be a beta tester. Jim reported about how unplayable the game was but the employees told him to keep going. After he finally made it to the credits, he was greeted with the words "Ya Grinched!" He quit after that. After he left, the developers made a better, more playable, and less pranky version of the game. However, they accidentally sent the wrong version to Konami and now everyone who bought and played this game have been grinched.
I never clicked on a It's Just Bad video notification so damn fast. When I first played the game, I was captivated by it. I'm so happy to see you two review this.
I saw The Grinch with Jim Carey. It’s not something for me (grew up on the original animation) but it always warms my heart to hear how it touched others. Note: I’m a real pain when it comes to Christmas movies and can’t seem to enjoy anything outside of the 60’s classics: Rankin Bass movies are always my holiday go tos.
I really like this review style you have now! Almost no gags, just a condensed walkthrough, dealing with pains in the games in order they appear... I kinda miss the "angry review" genre on TH-cam because it's real fun watching games that are SO hard to play due to bad design. Keep it up, Rerez! With JonTron and ProJared only doing reviews once in a blue moon, and Caddicarus switching to marathons that spend a minute on each game, there's real few reviewers of bad games left.
Sure doesn’t help that a good many of the classic “angry reviewers” seem to be clueless twats in real life, or that they’ve unintentionally contributed to the culture of deadly angry polarization that’s come to permeate much of society in the last 10-15 years. :/
@@christmashake8968 Yeah, I still love the Nerd and James seems to be a down to Earth guy, a nerdy metalhead who's into movie rental era and B-movies, whose parodies are a bit self-aware about the nerd culture, like a lot of AVGN reviews is about being mad at things that actually annoyed us as kids (I still can't land that plane), and just doing over the top reaction to it. I don't like when reviews of bad games, like, look at "what can I make fun of" and grab the low-hanging fruit for internet jokes, but when they try to play the damn things and have to fight the controls, design or bugs... which is relatable. Like, make a review from gamer perspective, not from a critic. I don't want to read videogame critics, movie ones don't get what people are looking for in the films enough already... I want players to share their experience. Notice how let's plays killed the walkthrough magazine and review industry? I watch playthroughs but for some games, a full stream is too much, so a heavily edited let's play with some weighted commentary on the things you notice after playing it is... better than just Irate Angry Guy 345 yelling at the screen or worse, just repeating complaints they read somewhere.
I think pretty much all of your criticisms are valid, and I remember when I played this game a lot of parts were pretty frustrating, especially the Dump level, but I still feel like cutting this game a bit of slack overall. For a licensed movie game they did a lot here in terms of creating a 3D platformer with a decent number of objectives to complete and upgrades to unlock. Not that I think one should give it a free pass for all the obvious problems, just that I've seen games that were far more phoned in, especially in the latter days of licensed movie tie-ins.
I remember this... from Playstation Underground. Long ago, there was a video on one of the discs (I forget which month) talking about working on this game. And man... they sounded so PROUD of it. For one thing, they were excited about how you go to other places besides whoville and the grinch's cave. They also were proud of how you need to find blueprints for gadgets out in the world, and bring them back to the grinch's cave to create them. Man, that seems like ancient history to me at this point. Don't know if anybody else remembers it.
This one I actually don't remember being that bad. I remember it being a little slow, but at least have an interesting concept. I found myself playing the demo quite a bit. Not one of my faves, but... interesting at least.
@@ChanceKearns My brother who has autism desperately wants to find the demo CD which we got in a cereal box 20 plus years ago. We are most likely never going to find it, but I told him I could maybe download the demo online for him to play. I have yet to do it though. I assume there will be compatibility issues and so forth.
@@Mankey619 Yeah, more or less, but as SpearSharp stated, I really didn’t worry over the flaws, I just played it since it was something different than replaying Crash or Spyro for the umpteenth time. Then again, I also enjoyed the heck outta Mission Impossible on the N64 (ironically the worst of the two versions in spite of the game itself not being looked fondly on by modern critics), so I probably don’t have that high of a standard in regards to video gaming to begin with.
My top 3 most favorite lines: 3. "Ugh! What's that stench? It's fantastic!" 2. "Kids today, they’re so desensitized by movies and television." 1. "Solve world hunger (tell no one)"
@@xilitla. The Who's throwing a swinger party, jokes about adultery, literally ass-kissing. No thanks. A lot of that movie was funny. But some of that stuff was awful.
It's almost like game devs for these bad games thought of ways to artificially make their games longer. Without thinking about actually making them fun to play.
I still have this game on PS. Never finished it, though, I got stuck somewhere. I remember the music being pretty good. Those FREAKING FLYING CREATURES. I also remember the controls being annoying, particularly for aiming and shooting.
![[MV] A leap of faith...ความเชื่อใจครั้งสุดท้าย (From "Petrichor the series")](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/U1piZH2CNXA/mqdefault.jpg)
I think the Whoville kids are supposed to be saying “big teddy”. Either way, the parents of Whoville really need to teach their kids not to run up and grab strangers.
And to avoid grabbing them in a specific way
...or grabbing specific part of the body
@@AlphaTuber They finna bust a Grinch
Oooooooooooh
Oops
But yes.
They should not grab giant green critters
As a kid playing this game, whenever he said "Ya Grinched!" I always heard it as "Yeah, Grinch!" like he was congratulating himself. Makes more sense than how it actually is.
That was the way I heard it during this review as well. It sounds stupid no matter which way you look at it, though
I'm understanding 'You're Grinched'. How's that alongside 'Yeah, Grinch'?
@@Roadent1241 yeah that makes more sense. Still stupid though, I mean, what does “getting grinched” mean?
@@Hwje1111 I assume it's something of a censored version of "you're screwed"?
@@Roadent1241 practically yeah
Grinch really hates the Whos because the terrible taxadermie job they did on Max.
The Whos Must Pay!
Bruh even the Dreamcast and PC ports of the game couldn't save poor Max
Max: 🗿
@@mattaoscorner
Of all the games the Dreamcast didn't get ports of, this is the one we just had to get.
@@mattaoscorner it’s because they just ported it for those systems, they didn’t change anything beyond that. It’s the same reason that the GameCube port of halo doesn’t suddenly have better environment textures
14:20 The Grinch just extending his “owch” the entire length of his land mine fueled flight gets me every time.
OMG!
I never noticed that!
That makes it even funnier!
I knew he was saying ouch, but I always hear him screaming "AAAAaaaa.... ooohh sh- *slams into the ground* "
@@mackenziewoloschuk7375 this is goldeeeen
"Ya Grinched!" sounds like a catchphrase from a failed Grinch sitcom pilot.
"Ya Grinched!" Tuesdays at 7:00 on the CW
Ya Grinched! is filmed in front of a live studio audience.
Ya grinched staring some dude we found on the streets
“Ya Grinched!”. (*laugh track and upbeat sitcom outro plays*)
Horton guest stars in a very special episode of "Ya Grinched!"
As owner of the PS1 game, this video brought back so many memories of playing the game growing up. It can be summed up with: I never knew there was a woods, a lake, or a dump.
This game is the result of Seuss TAKING a dump.
@@Cupheadsadvocate 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
These reviews are great, but what really sells them is Shane’s voice acting. It’s so unique and animated, he’d be a great voice actor if doesn’t already do that kinda work!
There have been times when I thought they brought in someone else to contribute voices, but every time it turns out to be Shane. His range is incredible. I can't believe he doesn't do professional voice acting at least as a side gig.
honestly i gotta gree, he has some vocal range on him, him and Adam Both.
"I'm an eagle!"
@@PunctualGuy_ Wait thats just Shane changing his voice? no way
@@Timo8.2. That's a new one
The entire Dump land mine area can be done without the jump gadget. Just do a butt pound every time you jump and you'll stay in the air a bit longer and jump farther
I saved that part for after I got the grinch copter!
No it can't because of the horrible un responsive un reliable reaction of the jump button.
The "Ya Grinched" at the end of the credits absolutely killed me.
I'd kill for Shane to just read the complete works of Dr. Seuss with how animated his voicework is. It would fit so well!
This game is uncannily creepy. Whoville feels empty and more like a ghost town than anything else.
It’s Whoville after the nukes dropped
In fairness, that’s also what the movie feels like.
Silent Who Hill
@@thevioletbee5879 heresy movies a classic
Then this game must be friends with PS1 Harry Potter with Funny but Terrible models…
That comparison with "The-The-The, The Grinch" was so hilarious with just how... pathetic the game version was.
5:45: Like Stuart K Riley said, it’s like a fake orgasm.
The-The-The *THE GRINCH!!*
The-The-The The Griiiinch.
@@Superluigi881 Movie Cindy: You’re the-the-the…
Game Cindy: Why you’re the, the… the…
Very Very True.
@@richardadamson1438 "very very" VERY TRUE
DUDE! Two episodes of JBG in such a short time? Merry Christmas indeed!!
Facts
Konami is the real Grinch here. They not only stole all the children's and parents money from selling this game, they also stole their time and sanity.
Ya grinched
Though not as bad as what they did to Kojima let alone pt
5:10 that's kind of like "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" for the NES. If played as Dr. Jekyll, he has an attack, the cane, with the cane he can poke his adversaries, but if you tried many enemies, it doesn't do anything, some will hurt you if you use the cane on them, the only thing you can defeat with a cane is a bee.
I think you can disable the bombs with it too
@@subtledemisefox Wait, WHAT?!?
Did anyone ever figure out if maybe you were supposed to get different weapons? If so did anybody ever tell James Rolfe?
@@metademetra And his character would eventually beat it.
For those wondering, “ya grinched” is a funny play on “you got punk’d” from the 90s :)
Oh man, I actually had this game as a kid. I loved it at the time. Collecting the blueprints and unlocking and using the gadgets was so much fun. But I had a lot more patience for the jankiness of it all than I would today. I remember even getting quite frustrated at it, but I kept at it. Guess that says something, not sure what though.
I think it says thay kids have a hard time of seeing the bigger picture. Especially if it's regarding one of the 1st games a kid plays. And their curiosity/wonder of the game due to the subject matter.
Then later you grow up and realize all the flaws after shedding those rose colored lenses or rather Kid colored lenses. Or some shiz like that idk.
@@bobbysavagehill also the older you get the more picky you become and also the less free time you have, so you definitely have no patience as adult to be trying passing the challenges in a game that is difficult due to developers and game designers incompetence.
Am I truly the only one who remembered this game being amazing?
My dad picked me up during his lunch break on our half day before Christmas Break and took me to our local video store and I rented it. Put it on my Christmas list!
I LOVED the Grinch Copter, because I loved anything that gave you a flight power. That’s why I liked Yooka-Laylee
I loved this game as a kid too. For and Bugs Bunny and Tax Time Busters were my favorites as A kid.
Gauntlet Legends too
It is good. Maybe not as good as sheep raider. But this game put my little brain to the limit as a kid and I loved it. Is hard to find good puzzle games nowadays.
This game is far from perfect but I feel like it does get over-hated too.
I think it's good. Except for some of the spinning jumps that seem to be TOO precise.
I really liked the world building in it.
@@BigHailFanHonestly. These guys are like. "You are walking and THERE'S A GAP ON THE FLOOR? And the game DOESN'T TELL YOU TO JUMP!" "You try to pass the level but the ENEMIES ATTACK YOU? WHAT?"
"You walk to the door... and IT'S LOCKED? AND THE GAME DOESN'T TELL YOU WHERE THE KEY IS!"
It has flaws, but boy do they milk everything!
I loved the 2000s Grinch, Everything from the "whoovile concept" to Grinch's wacky antics and crazy jokes he can pull on.
Same. As a live action goes it was very faithful to the source martial, Jim Cary and Max were perfect, and the set design was creative.
I too love the 2000 film and watch it every year along with the 1966 special and the 2018 film.
@@benmalsky9834 Is it cool already to like the Jim Carrey Grinch movie? I remember shortly after it came out people didn't like it all that much.
honestly jim carey made that film he was very entertaining.
@@dreamingfool2 And "Where Are You Christmas" always makes me emotional especially the end credits version.
I cannot imagine my life without Shane and Adam posting these videos. It just fills my soul with joy when I see there is a new Just Bad Games' video on youtube, even when I'm having a terrible day.
This is basically a Just Bad Games: Holiday Special. I love it.
Looks like I got one of the things I wanted for Christmas...Shane and Adam torturing themselves more for our own sake.
I kinda thought for a holiday special they would play something worse
We NEED them to look at Rudolph and Santa Claus is Comin' to Town for the Wii. Talk about real torture
@@mattaoscorner I was thinking Santa Claus saves the earth for PS1
your pfp is cursed
@@zeldagameryt4018 Like all those horrible Bible-licensed games by Wisdom Tree (aka LJN's Bible games division) for NES, Sega Genesis and CDi?
Heck I've played this game since the year it came out. Had it on the dreamcast and I love it. Fantastic sound track, and I really like the voice actor for the Grinch and Narrator. It's kinda like Mario 64 with its several objectives per level
The one who voiced the Narrator in the game (not heard in the review, sadly) is the same for Space Ghost from “Space Ghost: Coast to Coast!”
Wait so the Dreamcast version is better?
@@Chica6614 better resolution. Textures higher quality music and voice lines
Same here. Rented it for PS1 when my dad got me from school on my half day before Christmas break! I remembered the levels, the gadgets (GRINCH COPTER), the weird game overs, the disguises.
@@robbiewalker2831 George Lowe! Knew it immediately!
I remember playing this as a small kid. Never got passed the second level and from this video, I consider it a Christmas miracle…
Same!
Same here.
Crazy how the game is an anti-adaptation to the movie, which in turn is an anti-adaptation to the Book and Chuck Jones special.
I get the feeling that this MIGHT be a game reskin. Like, it was in development to be something else but changed to be Grinch themed at the last second.
This isn't an adaptation of the movie. It's CLEARLY an adaptation of MTV's 'How The Grinch Got His Groove Back'.
...ya grinched!
W WHAT
I looked can’t believe it’s real
Wait, are you serious?
Oh man, I loved this game as a kid! As janky as it was, I honestly loved that the devs actually expanded something from the movie, rather than having to stick to the 2,5 locations that were in it. I always like when tie-ins don't have to be contained within the restraints of what was approved for the original one. The egg farming thing though? Too real.
I remember the Chronicles of Riddick video game did the same thing, being a standalone title instead of a remake of one of the films. But The Chronicles of Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay was actually good and not divisive like this game is.
Considering The Grinch was able to steal so much without being caught, I wonder if the Phantom Thieves and Sly Cooper could learn from him.
The Grinch needs to have his own calling cards!!
Maybe his palace’s sin could be envy
@@wolfherojohnson2766 Or Wrath.
Hardly, you have to remember who he stole it from. Those Whovillians are incredible gullible and lack law enforcement.
In the game they seems to have a second dump guarded with land mines though so I guess they spent all their money on protecting their garbage while leaving their houses totally unprotected. The only thing the Phantom thieves and Sly Cooper could learn from them is to pick more inept people to rob.
Here’s my head-cannon: The Phantom Thieves went into his snow themed palace, snatched his heart, and that’s why The Grinch returns everything at the end of the story. You can’t tell me this isn’t how it happened.
10:54 Sounds like a "How do you do fellow kids" line where they thought "You're Grinched" was a cool catchphrase.
This is one of the few games here I remember playing as a kid... nostalgia overload. I was under 10 when this came out.
same!
Friendly reminder that nostalgia literally means that you don't actually like the game, you just like the memory of it.
@@HOTD108_ Thank you Nixon. Glad to see you're a member of the friendly neighborhood grammar police. No; I didn't enjoy the game btw.
I played this game once at a cusion's house. never again
I’m super nostalgic for the SpongeBob game on PS1, but, unlike the PS2 titles, I’m convinced literally the only reason is the banger OST, nothing else
4:52 I believe that child said “Big Teddy” due to the grinch being all hairy.
4:51 😂🤣
16:42
"You don't control your forward momentum--it's an on-rails flight!"
"You can move higher or lower--and left or right!"
Atta Boy, Rerez! Getting into the Dr. Seuss rhyming scheme!
sEUSS WOULD BE PROUD.
The Grinch's heart is growing three sizes but he talks like he's having a stomach flu at 17:46
This game was like it was made by the Grinch himself. Everything in this game is from inconsistency toward the movie and game to the atrocious controls and horrific game designs on the background and characters. Guess the Grinch really did ruin Christmas....for gamers and everyone.
Edited: I heard the Dreamcast version was better than the PS1 version.
Funny how the ps1/DC version was made by the team who did Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time and Time Busters. Two very decent games!
@@mattaoscorner They probably had a very rushed time period to make the PS1 version.
@@ExtremeWreck yeah i wouldnt be surprised if that was the case; wanted it out around the time of the movie for promotional and financial reasons
I loved the DC version, had no idea the PS1 version was that bad.
@@user-ny5vp9be8v It’s just the same game.
“I seem to be having a heart!” Ah, really captures Dr. Seuss’ poetic prose.
EDIT: I was wrong. Go like the comment in the thread correcting me.
NOT! 🤣
I almost choked
Clearly these developers didn’t have one.
I think it's supposed to be a joke on "I seem to be having a heart attack", but that just seems very complicated
@@MrBlueSkyof1607 Perfect since Seuss didn't have a heart when he cheated on his wife and drove her to suicide.
6:32 I noticed that "Ovo" reference. That Ouya console and its games (especially the Esperanto Animals game) need to be memes.
Absolutely adored this game way back! I always found myself just exploring the worlds. Between the game and the 2000 movie, I was in "Grinch mania" lol.
19:04- hey, Adam, your Tom Kenny is showing. That part honestly sounds like SpongeBob, though.
Adam? His normal voice is more like Duddley Puppy. But yeah I’m surprised it sounded like SpongeBob. Would like to hear that in a review for a SpongeBob game.
True
18:59 huh, i didn't know the grinch was voiced by morphman in this game
I'll be honest here, I actually enjoyed this game and the 2000s movie as a kid. And I still do to this day. But still, nice video there Rerez.
Were you considering a lie?
You are 100% correct. Great game.
Hey I truly enjoyed this game... Is more... I could even play it again... But now when my brain grew up older on gaming... WHAT A TERRIBLE DESIGN THAT GAME HAD!!!
@@HikariVictor I agree it rocked.
Like the movie… not so much this game
I'm always eager to see uploads from Rerez regardless of the topic. In the interest of "Christmas Spirit" though, Ima throw out a few suggestions for games that I think could make good videos.
*Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal*-Most infamous Wii shovelware yet to be covered on this channel.
*Psybadek*-Bizarre PS1 hybrid of Platforming and "Extreme Sports" with terrible audio and some of the worst controls EVER...
*Frogger: The Great Quest*-Hilariously Bad attempt to turn the beloved arcade game into a 3D Platformer (there's also a PS1 Frogger. I kinda liked it, but it has a Notoriously Unfair Difficulty Curve)
*YIIK: A Postmodern RPG*-As the title implies, it tries to be a trope subversive game kinda like Omori, Undertale, Yume Nikki or LISA, but doesn't understand what made any of those games work.
WHATEVER the next video is, here's hoping for a 2022 that is NOT Just Bad!
Nitro Rad already covered Frogger: The Great Quest. He thought it was worse than Bubsy 3-D.
@@Invidente7 That is true, Nitro did have a lot to say about that one. Though other games like Charlie's Angels and Sonic R had also been covered multiple times in the past too.
I believe Shane said at one point that the best reviews come from if they discover something new about a game that hadn't been talked about before and then make a video so they could bring it up.
Oml I remember seeing YIIK, my opinions on the game still remain the same.
Another JBG? Merry Christmas to us! That "ovo" made me snort 😂 I think I remember watching the Game Grumps play this during the holidays one year so it's... uh... nice to see it in more detail, lol.
The Ovo thing is from a constructed language (basically one that was made up but is still real and speakable enough to be recognized by linguists) called Esperanto, in case you didn’t know
4:58 Who: Hey! Who are you? Big daddy?
Who Police: FB-WHO! OPEN UP!!
Just started the video but as a kid who played this game I know what's going to get burned, for good reason.
You know what I love about you guys? Most TH-camrs intentionally playing bad games review like one or two levels or moments and then say “I can’t take it anymore” and end the video. You guys push all the way through and let everyone see all the game has and exactly how terrible the games are without having to suffer through it ourselves.
This is the first video I've seen from this Channel and I still agree! They even 100% this game so you can see the bonus unlockable- 19:39
Two episodes of Just Bad Games within a week? Quite a wonderful Christmas present.
The best Christmas present ever.
18:22 OMG this part in particular had me dying, reminds me of your older breakdowns on the worst ever series x3
Oh man I played this game SO MUCH while I was a kid! Must have beaten it at least a dozen times.
usually we use the expression "you had no childhood" when someone missed something as a kid..a game or a movie. In your case, it's the inverse :P
(Not true) Fun Fact: The studio that made the PS1 version of this game, Behavior Interactive, actually made this game as an inside joke. Before they got the license to the game, employees would always prank a particular employee, who was nicknamed "Jim", and would shout "Ya Grinched!" after every prank. Once they got the license to the Grinch, they decided to make the entire game one big prank by making the game too complicated and unplayable. When the game was finished, they made Jim be a beta tester. Jim reported about how unplayable the game was but the employees told him to keep going. After he finally made it to the credits, he was greeted with the words "Ya Grinched!" He quit after that. After he left, the developers made a better, more playable, and less pranky version of the game. However, they accidentally sent the wrong version to Konami and now everyone who bought and played this game have been grinched.
I never clicked on a It's Just Bad video notification so damn fast. When I first played the game, I was captivated by it. I'm so happy to see you two review this.
I imagined Santa laughing like Lex Luthor in Superman 64 every time you fail the present catching portion of the game.
I absolutely DIED when they started poking the dog with a stick. 🤣
The dog died before they started poking him with a stick.
Unless Max was a cardboard cutout lol
I saw The Grinch with Jim Carey. It’s not something for me (grew up on the original animation) but it always warms my heart to hear how it touched others.
Note: I’m a real pain when it comes to Christmas movies and can’t seem to enjoy anything outside of the 60’s classics: Rankin Bass movies are always my holiday go tos.
A new Rerez video? Must be my lucky day! Alohas everyone and have a blessed day and Mele Kalikimaka/Merry Christmas to all!
The Grinch in this game sounds like a knock off voice of the animated Beetlejuice... who, ironically, was a knock off of Micheal Keaton.
10:45 he "cringed" before the term went to the meme it is nowadays. what a pioneer D;
gotta love that running gag joke 11:24
I really like this review style you have now! Almost no gags, just a condensed walkthrough, dealing with pains in the games in order they appear... I kinda miss the "angry review" genre on TH-cam because it's real fun watching games that are SO hard to play due to bad design. Keep it up, Rerez! With JonTron and ProJared only doing reviews once in a blue moon, and Caddicarus switching to marathons that spend a minute on each game, there's real few reviewers of bad games left.
Sure doesn’t help that a good many of the classic “angry reviewers” seem to be clueless twats in real life, or that they’ve unintentionally contributed to the culture of deadly angry polarization that’s come to permeate much of society in the last 10-15 years. :/
@@christmashake8968 Yeah, I still love the Nerd and James seems to be a down to Earth guy, a nerdy metalhead who's into movie rental era and B-movies, whose parodies are a bit self-aware about the nerd culture, like a lot of AVGN reviews is about being mad at things that actually annoyed us as kids (I still can't land that plane), and just doing over the top reaction to it.
I don't like when reviews of bad games, like, look at "what can I make fun of" and grab the low-hanging fruit for internet jokes, but when they try to play the damn things and have to fight the controls, design or bugs... which is relatable. Like, make a review from gamer perspective, not from a critic.
I don't want to read videogame critics, movie ones don't get what people are looking for in the films enough already... I want players to share their experience. Notice how let's plays killed the walkthrough magazine and review industry? I watch playthroughs but for some games, a full stream is too much, so a heavily edited let's play with some weighted commentary on the things you notice after playing it is... better than just Irate Angry Guy 345 yelling at the screen or worse, just repeating complaints they read somewhere.
Yeah, I just want funny bad game review, not anger and saltiness and ripping into popular games that people don’t mind.
I think pretty much all of your criticisms are valid, and I remember when I played this game a lot of parts were pretty frustrating, especially the Dump level, but I still feel like cutting this game a bit of slack overall. For a licensed movie game they did a lot here in terms of creating a 3D platformer with a decent number of objectives to complete and upgrades to unlock. Not that I think one should give it a free pass for all the obvious problems, just that I've seen games that were far more phoned in, especially in the latter days of licensed movie tie-ins.
Is this OUR christmas gift? Oh you shouldn't have! (But i'll gladly take it anyways.)
I remember this... from Playstation Underground. Long ago, there was a video on one of the discs (I forget which month) talking about working on this game. And man... they sounded so PROUD of it. For one thing, they were excited about how you go to other places besides whoville and the grinch's cave. They also were proud of how you need to find blueprints for gadgets out in the world, and bring them back to the grinch's cave to create them.
Man, that seems like ancient history to me at this point. Don't know if anybody else remembers it.
Seriously the Whos in live action are bloody terrifying.
They looked like mole rat humanoid hybrid.
The Grinch is about the only character who doesn’t look bad in the live action film, he’s also the only like able one because Jim Carrey.
Stop hating the movie people
Love the callback on the egg joke at 6:30. Perfect. XD
Ovo
I un-ironically love this game! I know it’s just bad, but I still love it.
Me too. Its bad, but there's something about it...
Translation: "I'm a Masoschist!"
I like the atmosphere and it's basically "Christmas GTA," still remembers the Whoville level theme because I never past the first level, lmao
Same, but I grew up with the PC version. Kind of want to dust that off and see if there were any major differences.
This game is good, the guys on this video are funny but they don't know about games
19:01 i don't know why but the voices you two gave those four made me laugh out loud.
Lmao, "a mess of fandoms" ain't that the truth.
This one I actually don't remember being that bad. I remember it being a little slow, but at least have an interesting concept. I found myself playing the demo quite a bit. Not one of my faves, but... interesting at least.
It was probably good because it was a demo, which is pretty much just the good parts of a game
@@ChanceKearns My brother who has autism desperately wants to find the demo CD which we got in a cereal box 20 plus years ago. We are most likely never going to find it, but I told him I could maybe download the demo online for him to play. I have yet to do it though. I assume there will be compatibility issues and so forth.
@@bobbysavagehill some of those cereal box games are good. Like Clue for instance.
@@subtledemisefox Chex Quest even has a cult following big enough that they even made a new game in the past few years.
@@baalfgames5318 yes Chex quest is probably one of the best free promotional games
5:03 hell naw...
She actually Said big teddy
5:01
5:02 😂😂
Hey, I actually owned this game. I think that’s probably the first time you’ve covered a game on Just Bad Games that I actually owned. 😋
Same, It's not expected but a welcome one, Back then i never cared about the flaw, I just played it
Is this game bad as you remembered.
I actually did own the Reboot game. That's about it.
@@Mankey619 Yeah, more or less, but as SpearSharp stated, I really didn’t worry over the flaws, I just played it since it was something different than replaying Crash or Spyro for the umpteenth time.
Then again, I also enjoyed the heck outta Mission Impossible on the N64 (ironically the worst of the two versions in spite of the game itself not being looked fondly on by modern critics), so I probably don’t have that high of a standard in regards to video gaming to begin with.
ahhh yes, a user with a Daddy Caddy pfp, a cultured person.
One of my all time favorite bad games. Merry Christmas, Rerez!
I love the references in this video!
The egg and the other references are better than this entire game.
That cover for the grinch looks absolutely gold
The 2000's live action movie is actually my personal favorite version of the story. Jim Carrey definitely did a great job. Too bad the game is trash.
Too much adult content and subtext. Too much juvenile low-brow toilet humor.
@@orinanime just how i like it
My top 3 most favorite lines:
3. "Ugh! What's that stench? It's fantastic!"
2. "Kids today, they’re so desensitized by movies and television."
1. "Solve world hunger (tell no one)"
agreed jims performance was amazing.
@@xilitla. The Who's throwing a swinger party, jokes about adultery, literally ass-kissing. No thanks.
A lot of that movie was funny.
But some of that stuff was awful.
6:28 That egg bit killed me. Happy holidays Rerez.
I LOVED this game. I thought I was the only one who knew it existed. Lol.
All this talk about eggs and they didn't use a single Cat in the Hat clip. Surprising. Great video and may all your games this Christmas be not bad.
Also no mention of Green Eggs & Ham.
You don't know how much I needed this, thank you
snusk
2 Just bad games videos within a week of eachother? Must be a christmas miracle!
I swear on Christmas you should do a marathon a hour marathon on Bad Games
15:50 Literally eating Tic-Tacs as I'm watching this.
I absolutely love this game. So much nostalgia. Great video, any coverage of this game is fine by me!
Your videos never fail to bring me joy.
It's almost like game devs for these bad games thought of ways to artificially make their games longer. Without thinking about actually making them fun to play.
13:00 My favorite
Same
Wolvera! No sni AAAAAAAA
The Gameboy Color Grinch game was actually a lot of fun, it was a mix of Pac-Man and Metal Gear.
Oh really... that sounds kinda cool. How so?
@@orinanime you collect gifts and sneak around the houses to get them so hes basically correct. This is a proper grinch game. Konami made this game.
@@timbo303official9 cool
20:09
AVGN has been making that same question for 15 years now
I’m pretty sure they say big teddy but it does sound like “big daddy” 😂😂
This game looks like it started life as another unrelated game, and the devs reworked it when when they thought they could cash in on a movie tie-in.
Leave it up to Rerez to deliver 20 minutes of solid content. Thanks boss!
This is definitely game of all time.
My favourite part is when Grinch said "ya grinched"
Wait
Just a reminder that the uncredited narrator in this game is voiced by George lowe, AKA space Ghost.
4:26 the way he say "Ouch!" Is hilarious!
That box art is amazing. The Grinch looks like he's trying channel Chester Cheetah.
I still have this game on PS. Never finished it, though, I got stuck somewhere. I remember the music being pretty good. Those FREAKING FLYING CREATURES. I also remember the controls being annoying, particularly for aiming and shooting.
15:15- E-double-G-S, eggs!
19:47 Grinch Kart Wii
Now I wish that Shane and Adam will make a Just Bad Games review on the Cat in the Hat game.😃
You really want them to lose their minds, don't you?
You mean that Klonoa ripoff?
The game wasn’t that bad. Much better than the movie!!
There is a Cat in the Hat game??!
@@MetroXLR99 Yes. There is. It's for the ps2.
Just watched the 2018 Illumination Grinch movie yesterday. I now have little hope for Mario's movie.
The error sound at 2:15 gave me a godamn heart attack
The 2000 Ron Howard live action film is a classic. Merry Christmas!
Just a few minutes in, in this video, and I'm already thankful that I didn't waste time playing this, back in the day.
Merry Christmas everyone! ☃️🌲🍻
17:00 Superman 64 PTSD