The 10 WORST Crossover Video Games

MojoPlays

Watch The 10 WORST Crossover Video Games - MojoPlays on Dailymotion

Transcript

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.

00:20Before we begin, we publish new videos all week long, so be sure to subscribe to Mojo

00:24Plays and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos.

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?

10:44Let us know down in the comments, and don't forget to subscribe to Mojo Plays for more

10:48great videos every day.

10:51Thanks for watching.

Category

Transcript

Recommended