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Old 11th July 2009   #1
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A fighting game based upon a licensed property -- what could possibly go wrong?


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Karate Phants is thankfully a rarity on the WiiWare service: a terribly executed game which uses a license that no one outside of the country of origin is likely to have heard of in a game genre which is ill-selected. Abysmal controls and fatally broken gameplay have been combined in a game which doesn't seem to be marketed at anyone in particular. Maybe its target market is no one; that would probably be for the best. There really isn’t anything to recommend about this game whatsoever, it is a complete waste of space.

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This is based on a license?
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Apparently so. A very old German cartoon.

Back in the days of the MD/Genesis there was a similarly dreadful platformer from the same license.

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