A Japanese game I bought but never beat, and earlier today I saw why I never beat it before. This game just hatessss you, especially in the later half. A lot of quirks of average platformers on the SNES: Spikes immediately beneath you while you fall, wierd momentum mechanics that never really work, did I mention the spikes? THEY'RE EVERYWHERE. Tons of very mean and unfair spikes, and the fact that Marty is on a hoverboard and moves kiiinda like Sonic but more floaty make for a lot of unfair deaths. Level design is lacking and the controls blow, to put it short and less ranty.
On the positive, the music is great, and the graphics are very nice and stylized as well. Some people may not like the exaggerated super-deformed/chibi look they have going on, but I really liked it. The game also follows the movie fairly well, with plenty of tiny dialogue scenes between levels. Granted this is a movie I haven't seen and some of the dialogue is really poorly timed (I'd have trouble reading it in English it goes by so fast), from what I know of it, it follows it well. Ending is trash though. You get the book back from Biff and he runs into a truck and gets covered in trash, and then it's just credits. It feels like there might've been an extra ending cutscene that just got cut because they ran out of time.
Verdict: Far from the worst licensed platformer on the SNES, it also certainly isn't the best. An interesting curiosity that's worth a peak if you're a big Back to the Future fan, although the fact that it's usually a $20+ import will probably turn off most people who aren't super into SNES collecting.
On the positive, the music is great, and the graphics are very nice and stylized as well. Some people may not like the exaggerated super-deformed/chibi look they have going on, but I really liked it. The game also follows the movie fairly well, with plenty of tiny dialogue scenes between levels. Granted this is a movie I haven't seen and some of the dialogue is really poorly timed (I'd have trouble reading it in English it goes by so fast), from what I know of it, it follows it well. Ending is trash though. You get the book back from Biff and he runs into a truck and gets covered in trash, and then it's just credits. It feels like there might've been an extra ending cutscene that just got cut because they ran out of time.
Verdict: Far from the worst licensed platformer on the SNES, it also certainly isn't the best. An interesting curiosity that's worth a peak if you're a big Back to the Future fan, although the fact that it's usually a $20+ import will probably turn off most people who aren't super into SNES collecting.