How is this game supposed to make me want Domino's Pizza?

User Rating: 6 | Kamen no Ninja Hanamaru NES
Yo! Noid is one of those marketing ploys gone terribly wrong. The Noid was part of an eighties ad campaign by Domino's. The commercials may have been effective, but the game wasn't. For the last six months I thought this guy was from Pizza Hut. There's nothing in the game about Domino's, or maybe I'm just trying too hard to stay alive to notice. I don't know. All I can say is that it's pretty sad when people can't even tell that your ad is for your company and not the competition.
As for the game…if it weren't so easy I'd say it was garbage, but it is way to easy, but not in the normal sense of the word. The game is easier to play than most, but it's also way to easy to die, if that makes any sense. All you do is run from one side to the other, and kill/avoid the enemies. Your initial weapon is a yo-yo…I'm not sure why, but it is what it is. So you go around collecting these scrolls…they seem to represent how many pizzas you can choose from in the contests, but if you use the yo-yo on the big ones they turn into snowflakes and stuff. This game just gets weirder and weirder. So if you get the snowflake scroll; somehow, I still can't tell how I do it, you can use some special snowflake freeze power or something that freezes all the enemies on the screen. I have also gotten an earthquake one, but it's just as strange.
I've only gotten to the third stage, but that's quite the accomplishment so I'm not complaining. The first stage is on some bobbing boat or whatever and the screen keeps moving up and down making the pitfalls bigger and smaller. What fun! The second is in ice-maker land or whatever. As far as I can tell you are in a soda fountain ice-maker getting attacked by hockey playing polar bears and an Eskimo who throws big chunks of ice at you. Bags of ice also fall from the ceiling…err top of the screen. It's a lot like Ice World in SMB3, but maybe twice as bad. Ice World in SMB3 is terrible. The third world is some skateboarding California scene or something. You skateboard through the level trying to avoid a ghostly football player who throws footballs at you from the sky, and big fat Jabba the Hut seagulls. There is also some weird Pimp Teddy Bear thing, but he only makes a brief appearance in the beginning of the level and I never got a good enough glimpse of him to tell exactly what he was.
The pizza-eating contest is pretty weird in itself. All you do is pick a higher card than your opponent, and try to eat more pizzas than him. I've noticed that the difference between how many you eat and he eats is what determines the score, So if he picks four, and all you have is a bunch of ones, twos, and threes, you should pick the three if you want him to only get 1 point, but the two if you want to save your threes to get more points later. This is pathetic. I'm discussing the best strategy for beating the Yo! Noid pizza-eating contests. How many people can make that claim?
That's as far as I've made it. This game is impossible. I had to replay the game six times just to get to level three. That's pretty sad. I'll probably play more, but This review won't suffer from the lack of the later levels.