Playing Through My Evercade Collection Part 9: Piko Interactive Collection 1

I'll admit my expectations were sub-nuclear looking at this absolutely ugly ass-stain of a game and... yeah it unfortunately met them. Its a fairly standard nothingburger platformer that feels like somebody desperately wanted to ape the gameplay of Aladdin but without any of the pesky licensing attached.

It doesn't do it well at all and oh lord. Levels are bland and endless, animations are stiff, attacks from enemies don't account for hitstun, the main character's basic sword swing has no range and is like waving a feather duster around, the butt bounce is utterly pointless and has a weird arc to it when running and its all covered in the ugliest goddamn spritework to ever hit my eyes.

Just yuck.