Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind Reviews
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind nails the look and feel of both Power Rangers and the classic arcade games it’s drawing inspiration from.
Even if its competitors do what it does better, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind is still a rollicking good time that no one will regret experiencing.
Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind is an enjoyable brawler that recalls the campy fun of the 1990s TV series, but frustrating vehicle segments and a short playtime hold it back.
Digital Eclipse perfectly capture that '90s retro beat-'em-up feel with Rita's Rewind, even if the non-beat-'em-up parts are lacking.
Considering Power Rangers games have more often than not been middling-to-poor, Rita's Rewind is a pleasant surprise. It's been given a lump sum of love and attention from a development team at one with the source material. And, if its obvious polish wasn't enough, it's a game that really understands the arcade format and goes all out with dazzling Super Scaler action stages that work well to stave off the genre's naturally repetitive nature. There are a few aspects to the combat that could have been tweaked, but with its humour, lengthy 15-stage campaign, multiplayer hijinks, and heavy-duty '90s charm, Rita's Rewind is probably the best Power Rangers game we've ever played. It's pretty Morphinomenal.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind is a warm dose of nostalgia, a highly amusing, varied and reverentially detailed step back in time.
With a few little tweaks and perhaps some additional content over time, Rita’s Rewind could really be a badge of honor. And even as it is now, it’s miles ahead of that Space Jam game.
I was so excited by the prospect of Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind, it looked like a vivid nostalgia infused dream-game for 9-year-old me. Don't be fooled though, this is not the game your inner child has been looking for. Repetitive and lacking in imagination and finesse, Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind should be rewound and begun again.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind ultimately succeeds in delivering a nostalgic dose of fun that fans of the franchise are going to love.
Hopefully, as the months roll on and further surprises are potentially rolled out as DLC, this walk down memory lane will transform into the worthwhile nostalgic trip fans of the classic TV show deserve.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Revenge leaves a lot to the future. If the DLC and future patches make the game faster, and more enjoyable, then you'll have a solid game on your hands. In it's current state, it's slow, it's repetitive, and some features are admittingly missing. A wise man once said "A delayed game is eventually good, a rushed game is bad forever." MMPR: RR is somewhere in the middle.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind is a fun, albeit relatively bare bones, experience which gets by more on its nostalgic charm and great presentation, than it does on being anything more than a competent beat 'em up. The addition of on-rails levels and first-person fights are welcomed, and the variety of levels and the added time disrupter elements keep the game fresh for its short run time, but lack of combat moves and frustrating Megazord boss fights keep Rita's Rewind from ever reaching the lofty heights it aims for.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind is a wonderful homage to the IP and makes for a great beat 'em up. With an exciting soundtrack and outstanding visual design, fans of the Power Rangers will be pleased.
Out of all of the Power Rangers games I've played in the last decade, Rita's Rewind is the one that most honestly captures the cheesy fun, flashy martial arts, and attitude of the series' first few iconic seasons. It is to the Rangers what Shredder's Revenge is to the Turtles, a celebration of a dorky thing so many people loved as kids-and perhaps still do as big kids.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind is probably the most ambitious title this franchise has ever received. It mixes classic side-scrolling beat-em-up action, with varied other retro-inspired styles of gameplay. It is hit-and-miss; playing by yourself feels brutal and at times unfair, and the non-beat-em-up sections, whilst initially exciting, can be tiresome. But with hand-drawn SNES-style graphics, a pumping soundtrack and nostalgia coming out of its ears, it still manages to be fun most of the time.
Rita's Rewind is another failure for the Power Rangers brand. First, the TV show ends with a badly made, under-budget version of something that wasn't liked at all, then the figures have been licensed out to Playmate Toys (This might end up being a good thing with time), all the props and costumes have been sold off at auction, and now the video game that looked to revive the old-school Power Rangers feeling comes out and messed up. No wonder Hasbro is trying to offload everything to do with Power Rangers as they can't get anything right.
At the end of the day, Rita's Rewind wins me over on the nostalgia bomb of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers content. It's the complete audio-visual package of 90s aesthetic with a welcome evolution of the MMPR gameplay loop. Some of this gameplay loop may be frustrating and unforgiving, but it's still a hell of a lot of fun.
Gather your former "teenagers with attitude," 90s kids, because Rita's Rewind brings the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers back in their arcade glory.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind is a nice nostalgic beat'em up, which manages to fully capture the atmosphere of the original show. It is not a game up to TMNT: Shredder's Revenge or Street of Rage 4, currently the benchmarks in the classic scrolling beat 'em up genre, but its variety of levels and simple and fun gameplay, especially thanks to the heterogeneity of enemies, make it very enjoyable, especially in company.
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A great brawler brought low by baffling design decisions.