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The 10 WORST Crossover Video Games
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1/8/2025
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Welcome to Mojo Plays, and today we're taking a look at the 10 Worst Video Game Crossovers.
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These were the times where no fandom was happy with the end result.
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Before we begin, we publish new videos all week long, so be sure to subscribe to Mojo
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Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite
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On the surface, it seemed as if Marvel vs. Capcom was ready to evolve alongside modern
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fighting games, with a new art style, new cinematic story mode, and a revert back to
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the original game's 2v2 format.
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Even though Infinite does feel good to play, everything else about it is so lackluster.
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Much of the roster is just ripped from MVC3, there isn't any impact behind hits, combos
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or hyper combos, and the story mode is a freaking trainwreck of cringey dialogue and poorly
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explained plotlines.
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MVCI got such a bad rap from fans that it effectively killed the franchise for almost
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an entire decade before we got the MVC collection in 2024.
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Air Guys – God Bless the Ring
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For a 3D arena fighter, Air Guys is a pretty decent game.
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The controls could be a little less janky and stilted, but for the most part, it's
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serviceable.
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The only issue with this game, however, is its handling of the Final Fantasy 7 cast.
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Air Guys lets you play as Cloud, Tifa, Sephiroth, Yuffie, Vincent, and Zack, but there's just
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one big problem with all these guest characters.
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They all play the same, and have moves that do not fit their characters whatsoever.
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Look, we can kind of see Tifa pulling off a suplex or piledriver, but Cloud or Yuffie
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locking someone in an armbar or headlock is something neither of them would ever do.
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Don't they all have large, bladed weapons they can use instead?
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Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
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At the time, this was truly one of the most bizarre crossovers we had seen.
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Warner Bros. is really okay with seeing Scorpion roast Batman alive and Wonder Woman getting
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blown up to bits by Sonya Blade, well, not entirely.
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While the awkward controls were enough to make this crossover unsavory, MKVDC's true
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claim to infamy was in how it baby proofed all of the Mortal Kombat aspects.
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Tell us, what kind of a Mortal Kombat game would it be, crossover or not, if the finishing
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moves cannot have any blood or viscera on screen?
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Couple that with a story plagued by the lazy, worlds colliding and dooming each other stakes,
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and MKVDC proved to be much worse than it could have been.
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Nicktoons MLB
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Already Nicktoons MLB is off to a horrible start just by premise alone.
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You want to make a video game where outlandish Nickelodeon characters are playing alongside
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realistic looking Major League Baseball players?
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Okay, but what about this game makes it a Nickelodeon video game outside of just appearance?
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Well, nothing really.
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Only some of the roster has special abilities, and even if you want just a team of Nicktoons
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characters, the game won't let you do that, you can only choose 5.
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The ballparks don't even have anything interesting going on that isn't just visuals, it's
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just a bland mess made only for players who love baseball and Nickelodeon cartoons, not
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one or the other.
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Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games
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The Mario & Sonic franchise is decent for the most part.
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They may only be mid-collections of minigames, but they can be entertaining to play once
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in a blue moon.
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As for Sochi 2014, this was the absolute worst entry in the entire franchise.
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Whereas the first Winter Olympics entry in the series was a fun introduction of the event,
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Sochi 2014 felt like just a soulless cash grab.
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Not only was the selection of events mundane and pretty much the same as the previous game,
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but the controls somehow got worse compared to the previous game.
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We're not quite sure how you pull that off, but ever since this entry, the Mario & Sonic
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games have suffered from a pretty middling reputation now, even after Tokyo 2020 made
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its way to Switch.
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PlayStation Move Heroes
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No, it is not the last of the mundane minigame-centric crossovers, but as far as PlayStation is concerned,
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this was one of Sony's worst outings.
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PlayStation Move Heroes finally made our dreams come true by putting Sly, Jack, Daxter, Ratchet,
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and Clank, and Bentley, into one game, teaming up to save their respective worlds from calamity.
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Unfortunately, this was not the epic adventure we had been hoping for.
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PlayStation Move Heroes turned out to be nothing more than a slew of boring platforming and
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combat challenges that, for some reason, could only be done with the PlayStation Move controllers.
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Which barely worked half of the time.
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Can you really expect us to suffer through a handful of hours of broken controls and
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Sly looking gross as hell?
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Nah, dude.
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Send it back.
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PlayStation All-Stars was worth the wait compared to this.
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Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion
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Speaking of Smash Bros. copycats, Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion made the right
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calls on which characters to include.
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For the most part.
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It's kinda confusing my chowder isn't here, but whatever.
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Even though every character mirrored someone from Nintendo's famed fighting franchise,
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the sheer lack of originality wasn't the problem here.
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It was the lack of refinement.
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Punch Time Explosion's animations and physics were so out of whack that it makes the game
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look like a technical mess.
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Many of the animations look like they were only keyframed, while visual and audio effects
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often cut each other off randomly.
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Honestly, you'd think we were playing an alpha build with this game.
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Funko Fusion
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While our previous entries were technical messes or simply failed in providing quality
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gameplay, Funko Fusion is, well, a mash of both problems and more.
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Here we have a game that wants to be a third person shooter, but also a platformer, but
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also a puzzle game, but also a boss gauntlet, but also a collectathon, but also melee combat
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oriented, but also open world, if possible.
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While the game only saw minor visual bugs, Funko Fusion's biggest crime here, though,
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is the simple lack of direction and focus.
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And what better way to display that than the IP selection for this massive crossover?
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When you have IPs appealing to kids like Five Nights at Freddy's and He-Man mixing in
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with more adult IPs like Hot Fuzz, The Thing, and Invincible, we gotta ask, who's your
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demographic?
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Spyro Orange, The Cortex Conspiracy, and Crash Bandicoot Purple, Ripto's Rampage.
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When it comes to crossovers between two specific video game IPs, both Spyro fans and Crash
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fans have a deep love and appreciation for each other.
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However, that same passion was not represented in Crash Purple and Spyro Orange.
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While both feature some 2D platforming gameplay, most of your time is spent playing uneventful
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minigames that somehow get Crash and Spyro to team up to foil their villain's plot.
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Yeah, nothing about these games makes any sense, and the sheer mundanity caused both
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fandoms to reject this fantasy we once desired.
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At least we've seen the two together in later, significantly better games like Skylanders
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Imaginators and Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled.
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Jump Force What was to be the biggest celebration of
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Shonen Jump's history became one of the worst games we ever saw in 2019.
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Jump Force was the weirdest and ugliest crossover game to have come out at the time.
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Why would you want your manga and anime characters looking as realistic as they are here?
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What was arguably worst about Jump Force wasn't the visuals, or the bloated story, not even
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the lackluster level design.
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No, it was mainly the gameplay itself.
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This was a fighting game that required absolutely no strategy here.
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You could practically button mash your worries away, as every character had a light attack,
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a heavy attack, a dodge, a block, and maybe a ranged attack.
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It's a 3D arena brawler with absolutely no thought put into it.
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The only credit we can give it is how it managed to make Yugi a viable fighter against Goku.
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What's the worst video game crossover you've played?
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Did it make our list?
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Let us know down in the comments, and don't forget to subscribe to Mojo Plays for more
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great videos every day.
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Thanks for watching.
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