Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg set out to be a very interesting new IP for Sega, but it really just ended up a mess. While a lot of the ideas of Billy Hatcher are good, like taking care of an egg throughout the level or the animal abilities you get, they aren't enough to break away from the design flaws of this game. The camera is a mess to control and has terrible fixed positions, the game controls wonky and disjoint both as Billy and the egg, and the level design intensives the previous problems with more unforgiving platforming and harsh difficultly.

Pular as plataformas com o ovo é uma bosta, real, mais da metade das vezes você vai soltar o ovo sem motivo e cair fora da plataforma, e algumas missões podem fazer você arrancar alguns fios do cabelo
Fora isso, é um jogo único que foi feito pra chamar a atenção de qualquer criança que olhasse pra ele, com gráficos cartunescos e bem expressivos.
Minha rotina de jogo com ele é abrir ele, fazer 1-2 missões, me estressar com o ovo e desligar, semanas depois, me esquecer porque me estressei, abrir ele, fazer 1-2 missões, me estressar com o ovo e lembrar porque estou nesse ciclo vicioso

Childhood game, heavy nostalgia bias.
Playing the game now, I can see clearly how this is Sonic Team's attempt at a Super Mario 64 and for the most part, it sets itself apart with its style and charm. However, as a kid, I thought that maybe I just wasn't good enough at games to really get the hang of it. Playing it as an adult as opened my eyes to just how broken the game is. Anytime you jump onto a platform and the egg lands on it and Billy falls off to his death, is infuriating. Overall, I still find it fun to play to completion, the music I find pretty comforting and there really is no other platformer that controls like this game. Just don't go for 100%, you'll go insane.

Might just have the strangest pacing I've ever seen in a video game. "Save the Elder! Defeat the Great Evil! ...go play minigames or mindlessly kill some random enemies, I dunno man. It's required content!" Imagine saving every sage in Ocarina of Time but then Zelda yells at you that you're not allowed to fight Ganondorf until you've played at least 6 combined hours of the shooting gallery and the chest minigame. Just absolutely bizarre, the only "compelling" content is the first two levels of every world and everything after is weird filler nonsense that would actually make sense to do if it happened before you already defeated the boss of the world, but it doesn't. Just a really weird game, at times I had fun but mostly it's just kinda badly designed and very clunky.

this game was hard as balls to find and buy, i spent like a decade looking for it. was it worth the wait? i mean kinda? The game is oozing with sonic team charm all over the place, but sometimes the games mechanics will just screw you over, mostly in the fact that billy is kinda useless without an egg, so if theres a situation where your egg gets somewhere you can't go or you have to be seperated from your egg, then that makes you kinda just a sitting duck for a while. Other than that, its a totally servicable platformer with plenty of things to do and a BANGIN OST. I'd say check it out, but I don't think its a must-play or anything. If you are the type of person that would even look at a game featuring a chicken boy rolling eggs around then I think you'll find something to love here.