This game has aged pretty horrendously. Graphically it just looks ugly now, especially in contrast with some of the wonderful pixel art that the SNES gave us, and there's a 'zoomed in' effect to this game in order to show off the graphics that means you simply can't see that much of the stage at once both making it far harder to plan your movements and contributing to the game's problem of making it feel like so many of your deaths aren't due to player error, or actual challenges, but instead are cheap deaths that you're only going to avoid by crawling through the levels or memorising where enemies are located. Add to this a bunch of underdeveloped gimmicks and the game...simply just isn't fun.

Also kind of hate how pointless all the bananas and hidden rooms and animal tokens feel. The lives system in a platformer feels woefully outdated by modern design standards, and having all these secrets ultimately only give you extra lives means there just isn't any allure to finding any of this stuff.

Reviewed on Sep 08, 2020


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