Awesome Possum is not particularly a desirable mascot, at least not for a video game company. He looks more like what you would see on cereal boxes when you were like 5 or something, who would have shitty commercials about like a fundraiser or sale. He's more in line with, say, Woodsy Owl or Chester Cheetah, than the intended contemporaries such as Mario and Sonic, or even Bubsy. He does share something in common with Bubsy though, that being constant unprompted quips that get on your nerves in the first minute or two of playing.

The actual gameplay is the true deal breaker here, notably the framerate which sits comfortably at about 5-10 fps. What the fuck is that all about? I highly doubt something like this is pushing the Genesis' capabilities hard at all, so my guess is it boils down to shitty programming. Enemies are as annoying as Awesome Possum himself, they always swarm around you and toss you around, most notably in the already tedious water levels. They also seem to always come out of nowhere because this is another one of those games where the level layouts don't appear to be done with screen size in mind, like Taz-Mania or any Blue Sky Software platformer on the console. I still don't get why that's always such a problem, I can understand it on early handhelds but here I just don't get it.

The framerate is probably the biggest of these issues, and a big part in why I have it quite this low. The game is already a slog in of itself, but with the constant lag it becomes nearly unbearable. It's not even a particularly long game, three levels in four worlds plus a boss rush and it's over, but god, you really do feel every second of it. Awesome Possum is not a winner. That probably goes without saying, but I don't have better things to do in my life than play random nonsense such as this.