Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind

Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind

released on May 01, 1993

Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind

released on May 01, 1993

Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, known as Bubsy for short, is a platform video game released by Accolade in the early 1990s. It is the first game in the Bubsy series of video games. The game's name is a play on words in reference to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with the game revolving around Bubsy defending the planet's supply of yarnballs from alien invaders. The game received a sequel, Bubsy 2, in 1994.


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I'd always known and felt that this game was terrible but I always kind of forget just how bad it is and how poorly put together it ended up being. The camera never plays fair, never actually showing everything you need to see, often requiring you to stop moving and look around (This is supposed to be like sonic, and I know that doesn't mean running fast all the time. In sonic you never have to stop in your tracks to look in order to properly see your surroundings. You always see just enough). Bubsy also having 1 hit point on top of that is quite miserable, as you trek forward slamming yourself into enemies you couldn't react to or even expect to be here. It's kind of just a trial and error game. I'm sure with that in mind you can get fairly good at it, but would you even want to?

4/10

It's deserving of its reputation.

It has strange momentum-physics (you can resist your forward momentum enough to change direction midair, but you'll still continue moving forward if you get off the d-pad), and you move too fast with a too zoomed-in camera in too big of stages to really be able to react to danger in a realistic manner. I suppose the 10 minute time-limit is to encourage you to inch along through the stage.

So yeah, it's definitely not what I want or am looking for in a platformer.

The only decent Bubsy game. All downhill from here

As a kid I fucking loved Bubsy. There was a month or two where I would try to rent it every weekend. I don't know what made me think Bubsy was good. Bubsy is married to Gex.