There are just a lot of largely repurposed names and phrases, shoe-horned into a strategy RPG - and a mediocre one. The settings aren't crafted with the visual flair of the series. The animation doesn't have the weird, surreal puppetry as the characters move. There's nothing in Age of Resistance Tactics that feels quintessentially "Dark Crystal". They were platformers and beat ‘em ups not because it lent itself to the source material, but because it was easiest to churn out a game of that kind. These games weren't always capital "B" bad, as history has made them out to be, but they were relatively generic. That's what The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics feels like, one of those old games that kids were supposed to see after watching Batman Returns, recognize the heroes, take it home and then realize that they actually just bought a bog-standard action game that was coated in a layer of branding. There are so many anecdotal "classic" examples of the licensed game, it's almost impossible to just pick one, but some standouts include DuckTales, The Lion King, and Aladdin. Are licensed video games ever coming back? For those of you who are too young to remember, video games were seen as little more than toys back in the '90s (I'm old) and therefore, much in the same way there'd be a line of action figures and fast-food tie-ins for Jurassic Park, Independence Day, or Beetlejuice, there would be a video game.
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