Kind of a shame, because save for a few crippling design choices, this is much stronger than the average licensed platformer. It looks pretty good, sounds pretty good, feels pretty good, does the characters justice, and has a relatively well-presented story. Unfortunately, it's way too hard all-around and getting through the levels and fighting the bosses is a matter of puzzle-solving -- sometimes intentional, sometimes not. Just a bunch of individual moments of amateurish level and puzzle design (with apologies to that infamous system reset trick that makes the game impossible to beat on Sega Nomad, lol) and an overall difficulty curve that's way too high to be enjoyable.

(Looking them up, I am super duper not surprised to find that this team also did the Spider-Man animated series game which has ALL of these EXACT same problems but about ten times worse (despite coming out later!), and they also did NOT do the sequel to this, X-MEN 2: CLONE WARS, which is a huge improvement)