Marvel Land on Genesis - Advertisement Review

I'm sure it's a perfectly fun game, but already this thing has a couple of things working against it. It's called Marvel Land and doesn't feature the X-Men, its slogan is "Leap Into Action" which totally sucks, and it's in our bad advertisement section. But I'm not going to damn it just for that, instead I'm going to look at the full advert and make a reasoned decision. Oh who am I kidding? This commercial sucks! Let's start with the most obvious reason ... it features a chase on a roller coaster. On a roller coaster? How scary is that? The cars move at the same speed so the bad guy will never catch up. If this is the best they can do then maybe you should save your money for Sonic, Sparkster or maybe the PlayStation 3 (yeah, you have to start saving in 1991 if you're ever going to afford it).

The one thing that strikes me as funny is the expressions everybody has in the commercial. There's this guy jumping into a moving cart (from where? I don't know), but instead of looking happy to see him, the cute little girl looks utterly terrified. That's the kind of face you would expect if you car jacked a woman, she looks extremely concerned about her well being. And I don't blame her, the guy has horns and jumped into her moving cart ... either that's a rapist or the most misunderstood nice guy the world has ever seen.

And it's not just the girl who looks scared to death; it's the tiny fairies all around the amusement park. Notice how all three of the fairies look concerned for that poor woman. Or maybe they are just taken aback by the dude's crummy fashion sense. He's wearing a dress for crying out loud, what kind of dude wears a dress? What's even more tragic is that you notice the dress long before you notice that he has wings, which would usually be the defining characteristic of a guy like this. But no, it's his man dress. I don't know, I could probably go on but maybe I'll just lay off since he's fighting in an amusement park. It takes balls to fight in an amusement park ... balls I can totally see because he's wearing a dress!

FROM: Thank God You're Bad Advertising