Popeye 2 is a game about fisting. You get cans of spinach and that causes your fist to grow as large as your entire body, which you can then use to punch. I used this with a technique called "fist boosting", wherein I would fist mid-air in order to gain momentum to make jumps. I later discovered that you just hold B to move faster. I was very disappointed. When you reach maximum fist, you can shoot spinach cans out of your fist. Enemies do not love spinach the way you do, and will die.

This is a game that has levels. It also has enemies. And design, sometimes. You go up, you go down, at one point you swim. It has music, and some of it is good, and some of it is actively painful, and you don't hear the Popeye theme until the credits and that's sad. It has hitboxes, and sometimes they work, and sometimes you just get hit twice by the boss' attack because your invincibility frames barely exist and get you combo'd easily, but it's ok because sometimes you can just jump on the fireball and it'll be ok. Sometimes the game has checkpoints at bosses, and sometimes it'll make you do the penultimate level again if you die to the final boss. But not the boss directly before the final boss that the level precedes, just the final boss immediately after the penultimate boss. As a treat. Popeye 2 fulfills the minimum requirements of being a video game, and it has Popeye with a giant fist. If you would like to speedrun a video game, this game functions, and competition will be low enough that maybe you could get the world record pretty easily. Otherwise, this is a game that does enough to function. I do not think it's a bad game - I like video games a lot, I think anything above a 1 is still better than not playing a video game - but it sure is something that exists and works sometimes.

Would you believe that this is probably still the best Popeye game? I love the guy dearly, but MAN, he just can't catch a break games-wise.