Pulling this randomly out of my giant zip file of snes roms, I had no idea this was an unreleased game. In the countless amount of SNES tie in games, it just feels like this game was released and someone out there bought it, but no, it was cancelled before it could release. Playing it, it certainly feels as finished as you expect any game of its caliber to be. There's no trick going on, nothing out of the ordinary, you can perfectly envision a child tolerating this game after getting it from their uncle. But it only exists in this form, a random SNES rom floating among countless smw rom hacks, demoscenes long forgotten, untranslated dungeon crawlers, and hentai slideshows. Far from any sort of target audience, plopped into an emulator by a dipshit making jokes with his friends over discord at 1 AM. Barbie was never meant to be here, and yet this is where destiny has taken here. A Barbie girl, but no Barbie world, Aqua is left in shambles.

Reviewed on Jun 14, 2023


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