Play the American release, it has some colors. For some reason the Japanese version is completely sepia, no color at all.

How is the audio bitrate is so low? If I heard someone playing this in the other room I'd genuinely think they were playing a Flash game. Were they aiming for a WiiWare release, and switched to disc too late in the development process to remaster the music? Is this just another case of Yuji Naka's Wii projects getting screwed over by publishers?

I didn't expect to fall in love with a physics-focused, Power-the-Animal-titled Yuji Naka platformer but here I am. This is an amazingly simple concept that is executed as well as it possibly can be. Well, outside of the incredibly bad audio quality and the very boring sepia blocks that make up all of every level.

You might play the first few chapters and see your extra life count hit double digits and think to yourself "man, this game has no teeth." Don't worry. Around chapter 8 or so it will bite your dick off.

Too bad Naka is a convicted felon, now. His best mascot platformer needs to be rereleased with a CD-Audio quality soundtrack. And maybe a few more tiles in the tileset.

Reviewed on Jan 12, 2024


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