Troll Face: The Video Game

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Troll Face: The Video Game is a first-person shooter platform video game developed by Torus Games in partnership with Groove Games and NAPS team, and published by Activision. The game was released worldwide on November 26, 2008, for the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, and Nintendo GameCube. On January 17, 2009, a Nintendo DS version was released. It was then released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and Wii on February 14, 2014. On March 25, 2017, a Nintendo 3DS port had been released, with the Wii U version being released on October 23, 2018. The game was then ported yet again for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux on December 28, 2020. The game is based on the troll face, a meme drawn by Carlos Ramirez in Microsoft Paint on September 19, 2008, as the title says.

In 2023, Troll Face: The Video Game received a live-action film adaptation entitled Troll Face: The Video Game - The Trolling Madness.

Plot
An evil person by the name of Skorpion and Krapper attacked the Troll Face City by stealing a lot of Troll Faces from the buildings, and it's up to memes and the Troll Face to stop Skorpion and Krapper once and for all.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The game cover is extremely poorly made. It just shows a picture of a troll face with the annotation "problem?" on the white background, featuring a lazily made game title that looks like it was created in MS Paint. That's it, nothing else. The entire cover also looks like a newbie would make it in less than 10 minutes.
 * 2) Extremely ugly graphics that look like it was from a Flash game from the early 2000s. Even for PS1, PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, DS, Wii, Wii U, and PC standards. No matter which port looks graphically, the graphics still look extremely ugly, thanks to the developers. The graphics are on par with other games that have ugly graphics.
 * 3) God-awful music. It sounds so horrible that you would want to jump out of the window or mute your console or your TV in order to prevent the music from torturing you by forcing you to listen to it.
 * 4) For some reason, the game was released for the PS1, Xbox, and GameCube in 2008, despite these consoles being outdated and the players of the PlayStation, Xbox, or Nintendo consoles switched to its successors and the fact that the PS2, Xbox 360, DS, Wii, and the PS3 were already out, although the PS2 was also somewhat outdated. Nevertheless, it was still ported to those platforms.
 * 5) The PC versions constantly lag forever, just like Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis. No matter which PC you have, these ports will be always slow as heck.
 * 6) The game has been in development hell big time. It was originally announced as a game for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988, but then it was switched to Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992, but then, it was switched yet again, this time, to Nintendo 64 in 1999, until it was firstly released in 2008 for the PS1, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360 and GameCube, as mentioned above, which just proves that the game has been in development for over 20 years. Even Duke Nukem Forever, Aliens: Colonial Marines and Postal III took fewer years to develop.
 * 7) Horrendous controls. You press down to walk, right to move the camera left, left to move the camera right, attack with UP, and jump with the rest of the buttons that make the Troll Face and memes jump.
 * 8) Troll Face and memes are unlikable bastards, like Drake from Drake of the 99 Dragons.
 * 9) The ESRB rating and even Activision's logo are pixelated, due to how poorly made the cover is. Because of this, it can be hard to see the "18+" in the rating from ESRB.
 * 10) The PS3 version contains a stolen box art of the Game Boy Advance version of Mega Man & Bass, and Capcom didn't even sue Activision, nor Torus Games yet. And the creators of this game are even unaware that they can get sued for stealing a box art of the GBA version of a different game.
 * 11) Very lazy character models. They're all stick figures, only with different faces. That's it, nothing else.
 * 12) * It has been also revealed that they were made in MS Paint, which is an extremely poor and lazy choice for making models and character designs for a video game.
 * 13) The game uses an outdated engine, like Marine Sharpshooter IV: Locked and Loaded, which is Unreal Engine 2. In fact, for the PS3, X360, Wii, 3DS, Wii U, and PC versions, Unreal Engine 3 and 4 already came out, even though Unreal Engine 3 is outdated too. This just proves that the developers didn't care that Unreal Engine 3 and 4 already came out. Instead, they made this game with Unreal Engine 2.
 * 14) There are many songs that were stolen without permission, which caused Activision, Torus Games, Groove Games, and NAPS team to get sued every time they released a version that still contains stolen music.
 * 15) Horrifically long loading times. Some of them take up to 35 hours, even longer than NBA 2K20 or Sonic '06's loading screens, and there's ABSOLUTELY NO WAY to speed up the loading screens. You will have to wait over 35 hours sometimes just for the loading screen to finish and you will be able to continue the game.
 * 16) Abysmal framerate that is basically a cousin of Superman 64's framerate. It runs around 5 FPS at the time. However, there's one port that has an acceptable framerate (see RQ#4).

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) When you get used to the controls, it can actually be pretty fun!
 * 2) Some songs are good.
 * 3) * And on top of that, most of the songs are extremely awesome as heck.
 * 4) The NES, SNES, and N64 prototypes are way better, if still mediocre. The unofficial Genesis and Dreamcast versions (based on the SNES and N64 versions, respectively) are also well-made.
 * 5) The GameCube version has a much better framerate, compared to the other ports of the game (not unlike how Tales of Symphonia runs at 60 fps on the GameCube in comparison to the other versions running at 30). It runs at 55 FPS all the time.

Reception
Unsurprisingly, it received extremely negative reviews upon its release, and it's considered to be the worst video game ever made, even worse than Action 52, Superman 64 and Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing by everyone in the whole entire universe. It is even considered to be worse than 9/11 memes. On Metacritic, it has a critic score of 1/100, based on 9 critic reviews, making it the lowest-rated game on that site. On GameFAQs, it received a 1.04/5 from 438 users. On the other hand, the GameCube version received mixed reviews, with most people citing the superior framerate of that version, and it has become the go-to version in speed runs.

Due to how bad the game is, it was pulled off the stores only 2 months after it was released, selling over 5690 copies.

The NES, SNES, and N64 prototypes leaked somehow got mixed reviews. Many people praised the music, the character designs, the controls, and the level design, but they criticized the graphics.

Trivia

 * Due to how bad the game is, there is barely any footage of the game, due to people refusing to record the game to make gameplay out of it, or simply losing the gameplay files.
 * There were going to PlayStation 4, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation Vita ports of the game, but due to extremely negative reception, they were never released. The PSP and PS Vita also couldn't handle the game due to how large it was programmed, with the latter console having weak sales.