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a sub quest, some games have
you collect items such as chaos
emeralds. Others will scatter
balloons throughout the world
map. Hands up who would link
KITTENS with the Superman universe
locale of Metropolis city? Kittens!
At a stretch, Richard Donner's
1978 Superman movie featured
a scene where the 'Man of Steel'
rescued a cat from a tree. Not
quite iconic, but there you
go!
For
the featured game I'm discussing,
'Superman Returns',
the game suggests (pleads?)
that the player collects 100
kittens which have been mercilessly
scattered throughout the city.
Daft. But oddly cute, and for
the collector in you, a must.
They can be found both on the
pavements, but also on top of
buildings, including high rise
towers such as the Daily Planet,
helplessly meowing for help.
Who knows how they've got there,
but you are Superman, and Superman
helps everyone, no matter how
small and furry. I spent an
hour collecting 30 of the felines,
before sitting back and simply
wondering, "What am
I doing??" I should have
been off fighting huge robots
which weren't in the film! >>>>>>>>>>
Due
to repeating this thankless
task for so long, I managed
to hear every sound clip Superman
utters each time he snatches
up a kitten (which basically
involves you flying into them,
more fun at full speed!). After
you've collided with them, they
miraculously disappear. Seeing
as anything goes in this game,
I thought perhaps after you
collected all 100 they'd merge
to form a gigantic killer Kryptonite
cat...! Sadly no.
Anyway, whilst collecting the
kittens, you'd hear Superman
remark, "Here kitty
kitty kitty" said
in rather zombie-like tones.
He's actually voiced by the
film's gorgeous star, Brandon
Routh, but here, sounds as if
he'd rather be dead! The final
word of "kitty" is
almost said with a braindead
groan! But, we can forgive him,
as he looks wonderful in blue
tights.
The
best line would have to be,
"Metropolis needs to
do something about the surging
kitten population." Haha!
At least the game can take the
piss out of itself...unless
that was meant in a totally
serious way, which wouldn't
surprise me. As a suggestion,
would it not have made more
sense (at least in keeping in
the theme of Superman) to have
had one of his crystals broken
into shards and spread across
the city? No no, how silly of
me, kittens are the way foward!
;)
I
make no other mention of the
game, other than it had a lot
of potential... And anything
was going to be an improvment
from the Nintendo 64 version!
P.S.
I'd just like to add that the
final boss of this game is a
tornado. The end.
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