Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion XL

This game... oh this game. First of all I will be honest. This is a Super Smash Bros. Brawl clone. Not that it's a bad thing... <br /> <br />First the controls are not as responsive as I would've liked. Moves tend to have a slight and annoying delay before they take effect which you can get used to after awhile but it does mean a lot of times once you fall below the stage you're probably not getting back up like you can on Smash Bros. <br />Second... unlike Smash Bros, this has a story. a crazy messy store but one that is actually being told in game... kindof.. these are older cartoon network characters we're working with here. They're insane in their own rights and together they are just getting messy. <br /> <br />Back to the gameplay... You have a main attack button where pressing up, down, left, or right gives it a different effect and tapping those directions as you hit the button gives you even more power and different moves. same with the special attack button. Here each character has a super move (PTE move) that you can use when you gather enough of the strange blue cubes that drop from hitting characters. <br /> <br />Now after summarizing everything about the game, here is why it gets such a low score. The controls are slow and sometimes unresponsive all together. The graphics are kindof strange looking at all the characters in 3D models instead of their more original art styles which would've been interesting. The activation of PTE moves cause a short cut scene to happen which is ok while doing story mode or playing alone, but add more people or even during standard matches that just stops the flow of everything until it's done and just hope you weren't trying to recover and get back to the stage at the time. <br /> <br />Overall: this game is good to bring back memories of the old shows CN used to show, but as a game.... could be better, just "tighter" controls and better simpler graphics and it would be.