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Store by my house has this new for $30. I want to try it because its a Treasure game and I haven't played it. Yet..yet...reviews aren't very good. Most reviewers seem confused by the game. What do you say?
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Stretch Panic...Yea or Nay?
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Unison said:
yea, i see it available used for much less. that's the only time i've seen it locally new. but the price difference is too big. $5 = worth a chance, $30 = might feel ripped off.
cybercrash
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I had fun with it and while it's not technically pushing the PS2 it does do some very clever effects which were very fun to look at for me. I wouldn't go back and play it again though, no replay value imho.
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MarkRyan said:
So you're saying $24.95 or nothing? Because he might take that.
TREASURE AM CRY.
I thought it was... okay. And I spent $50 on it the day it came out. The weirdness is a lot of fun, but yeah, there ain't much of a game there. For the usual <$15 it goes for used, it's worth it just to look at the great and bizarre in-game artwork. Seriously. And it ain't that bad of a game.
Johnny Konami
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I bought it new for 10 like 2 years ago - as a Treasure fan. It's kind of neat but only if you can get it dirt cheap. It's definitely not thier best game.
i feel bad about getting it at the Circuit City $5 sale. i knew it didn't get great reviews, but i love Treasure's games, so i figured there'd be some redeeming element for a Treasure fan. The cashier stated that he really wanted to give it a try, and that he was a Treasure fan as well. A week later i'm looking at the game, still unopened, and decide to just give the guy the game since he was so helpful in ringing games up for the sale and he actually wanted to play it. i called CC up and found out the guy didn't work there anymore. 
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aoi tsuki said:i feel bad about getting it at the Circuit City $5 sale. i knew it didn't get great reviews, but i love Treasure's games, so i figured there'd be some redeeming element for a Treasure fan. The cashier stated that he really wanted to give it a try, and that he was a Treasure fan as well. A week later i'm looking at the game, still unopened, and decide to just give the guy the game since he was so helpful in ringing games up for the sale and he actually wanted to play it. i called CC up and found out the guy didn't work there anymore.
good people +1
You know what's really sad about Stretch Panic is that, originally, it was going to be this epic Mario 64 style environment based adventure where you'd use the scarf to get around the levels etc. But do to budget and time constraints it ended beeing nothing but boss battles.
It is the one Treasure game I produced that I was most dissapointed with. Ah well. I have some AWESOME art and storyboards from the game's original design.
It is the one Treasure game I produced that I was most dissapointed with. Ah well. I have some AWESOME art and storyboards from the game's original design.
Stretch Panic was enough to put me off Treasure for a couple years, until Ikaruga and Astro Boy GBA removed the sour taste from my mouth.
Stretch Panic is the video game equivalent of waking up in a strange bed with four men depositing their fluids into your mouth.... and you're also a guy.
Stretch Panic is the video game equivalent of waking up in a strange bed with four men depositing their fluids into your mouth.... and you're also a guy.
yeah: it's really not a finished game. i remember hearing that treasure had no plans to release it until conspiracy picked it up. it's really just a sketch for a game that might have been. but taken for what it is, i think it's fun. the visual style is reminiscent of silhouette mirage or dynamite headdy, and some of the boss fights are neat. i don't know that it's worth $30, but it's certainly worth $10.