Power Rangers Time Force (Game Boy Advance)

Power Rangers Time Force (Game Boy Advance)
Let's forget the time, Time Force had a video game.
Genre(s): Action Platform(s): Game Boy Advance Release Date: NA: September 15, 2001 EU: November 23, 2001 Developer(s): Vicarious Visions Engine Software Publisher(s): THQ Country: United States The Netherlands Series: Power Rangers Successor: Power Rangers Wild Force

Power Rangers Time Force is a video game based on the ninth season of the TV series, The Game Boy Advance version of Power Rangers: Time Force was released on September 15, 2001, developed by American studio Vicarious Visions and published by THQ.

Gameplay

The Game Boy Advance version is a beat 'em up side-scroller. This version follows the show more closely. The player must travel through various stages to stop the evil Ransik. All five Time Force Rangers are playable in the game. The Quantum Ranger is playable when the player earns the Quantum Morpher power-up, allowing the Ranger the player is controlling to use the powers of the Quantum Ranger. The game also features Zord battles, however, only the Time Force Megazord in mode red is playable in these battles.

Bad Qualities

1. Unexciting intro with muffled voice acting for the lyrics of the theme song at the beginning and the outro, although it still sound good for a Game Boy Advance game released in 2001 despite being muffed.
2. The enemies' walking animation looks really awkward and awful compared to the walking animations from the rangers.
3. Unsatisfying and confusing story that doesn't follow that much of the original Power Rangers Time Force.
4. Poor weapons which sometimes don't work properly or are very broken, with them sometime either done huge amount of damages or some of them are really weak and doesn't do much damages, some of them aren't even fonctionnal at times.
5. Very stupid boss fights. The bosses just fight the same way outside of a couple additional attacks here and there, not to mentions that they are horribly easy and just some of the worst boss fights you will ever fight in a Power Rangers game.
   • The Megazor battles are even worst than the main bosses as you can just spam your attack to the boss until you get enough energy to defeat the boss, not to mentions that even the final boss is extremely easy in this phase.
6. Sub-par sound effects which sound like a broken record.
7. The animation of the boss monsters exploding looks terrible, even for a 2001 Game Boy Advance game, even the Game Boy Color version of the game had better exploding animation than this, and that was on a 8-bit console!
8. Incredibly generic and repetitive music, especially the Megazord theme. Listen for yourself here.
9. Ugly enemy sprites, the yellow-skinned enemies look like men in snot.
10. The visuals look pretty bad for a Game Boy Advance game released in 2001, although the graphics are still pretty good.
11. Horrible ending.
12. Some of the Power Rangers you can play as are weak and can die very easily, thank to how bad the balancing of this game is.
13. Uninspired level design. They're usually just a bunch of generic maze-like levels.
14. Awful cutscenes with poorly-rendered CGI models of the monsters and lame stock cartoon images of the Power Rangers.
15. Horrible collision detection which make the combat really awful, most of the time you die from that.
16. No save feature at all, which is unacceptable for a 2001 Game Boy Advance game, instead the game relies on passwords. Most Game Boy Advance games came out the same year, such as Super Mario Advance and Rayman Advance both used a save feature.
17. The game is way too easy, as you will never really get a game over due to how easy this game is, this is also the easiest version of this game.

Good Qualities

1. At least the level backgrounds are good, as they are pretty detailled and colorful, it's also a bit more colorful than Power Rangers S.P.D released 4 years later.
2. The Power Rangers' sprites (although recolors) look very good.
3. Some of the movement animation is fairly decent, such as the rangers running animation.
4. The Yellow Ranger has the most health and does the most damage to enemies.
5. The controls are pretty good and responsive unlike other crappy games on the GBA.
6. It still better than the awful PS1 version of the game, as it's had actually some fun to get in this game since the controls are good and the PS1 version lack any of this quality.
7. It's can be a fun game if you want to speedrun it.

Trivia

• This game came out exactly 4 days after the September 11 attacks.

Reception

Power Rangers: Time Force for the Game Boy Advance was met with mixed-to-negative reviews. It currently holds a 2.81/5 on GameFAQS and a 59% on GameRankings. Gamers on YouTube criticized the game for its generic level design, unimpressive graphics, boss fights and music.

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