Mr. Bones

"Mr. Bones is sure to send a chill up your spine"

We all want to be little walking skeleton when were little. Though you only really see them in movies and at Halloween. So what was Sega thinking when they made a game based on a walking, talking, charismatic skeleton character that can play the guitar well too? Only hell knows, but they did a good job at whatever they tried to achieve. You go from killing a whole army of the the evil dead, too running from a boulder down a steep hill to save your ass. This is Mr. Bones, incase you missed the big title at the top of this page.

Game began's as you're raised from the dead by the beat of an evil boss. All the others have red eyes and think of world destruction while you just have blue eyes and have a thing for jazz music...sounds corny? Probably. Fun? Yes.

Your review no good so far FFM; yes

Many different missions to choose from and many other types of game-play mixed in. The beginning levels have you having to escape a prison from a graveyard. To others when you meet a guy that loves the blues and tell you how to play the guitar. This type of the game play mostly involves ra-pappa da rapper where you press buttons to get further along and make a bunch of skeletons happy. Later mission include you running for your life while you get chased down hills, get attacked by a bunch of little guys that tie you and poke you with pick-forks, too having to figure out how to get out of a big boney maze. There are a lot of mission to do also, seemingly you have 2 discs of about 20 missions each. Which will keep you busy for a good long while

I'll keep you busy FFM, get back to work: Slacker

Stop being so abusive inner voice. They could have fit more levels on the discs , but they didn't for the fact that the graphics might of haven't have look as good. For a non-popular game is sure doesn't have half-assed graphics for most other Saturn games at the time didn't have. The FMV's fighting to be about as good as though in FF7 , just a lot less explosions. The enemies always being a new character concept, not just the same, worn out model used over and over again. Too the puzzles that look like someone actually set down and worked on them, bones looks tremendously good... just like my review...psyche..

Bones ehh?, sounds like you see a lot of them

Not to mention the sound also..you got original blues tracks, good voice acting, superb sound effects too. Leaving you with the sensation of that you've heard some BB king; maybe not quite BB king but still. The character you meet throughout the game will all have new voice acting talent..fresh dialog and are for some reason always happy and cheery about everything. Seems to me like the practically forget that the world might end any second.

You're annoying me now FFM

HUSH! Only thing leaving you hanging throughout the game maybe the controls, and how I didn't like the Sega Saturn Controller. Six buttons lined up to each other making it hard to execute moves in some area, this is really a problem when you have to set there and perform the right move at the right time or you die. Which always sucks in one way or another...

I'll give you something that...well...never mind

In the end , you're left with a game that you should feel as though you completed a classic..though I say that about every-game I like.

Final verdict
Graphics=10
Controls=5
Game-play=9
Sound=9

Final=8

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 02/10/03, Updated 07/29/03