Eskimo Bob, Eskimo Bob
He eats Raw Fish!
Eskimo Bob, oh Eskimo Bob,
He is...
Alfonzo's Arctic Adventure is a major improvement over Eskimo Bob. To make a comparison, Eskimo Bob felt much like an early NES title with its lack of story, repetitive gameplay and frustrating levels, Alfonzo's feels like a late NES game with much more liberties and variety. There are now multiple level tracks, much more unique and fun boss fights, and even more playable characters! The puzzle gameplay is improved by these additions.
Bob, who's moveset was absolutely useless in the last game, is missing here. Instead Alfonzo is joined by: Bob's replacement, Eskimo Magnus, who's downward fist can not only rush him downwards but also damage enemies. Fernwood who has low mobility, automatically breaks blocks, and is impervious to most forms of damage. And...Girl, who has the highest jump, further traveling projectiles, and is basically an upgrade to Alfonzo in every way, which doesn't add much to the levels like the other two do, just makes getting to her a goal unfortunately.
The levels all start as Alfonzo and it's up to you to use the tools given to get to the goal, or find one of the game's many secrets. There's Golden Fish, which are just a 1-up the game incentivizes you to collect (but if you miss it you can't replay previous levels for some reason, but thankfully according to achievements the devs don't ACTUALLY expect you to get all 96 of them.) and secret paths, allowing you to skip levels and in one case most of a world! Gotta keep your eyes peeled. If there is a 3rd Eskimo Bob game I wonder if it'd be 16-bit, and what else they could do to bring the series to games, or if they'll simply let Bob and Alfonzo rest for a bit. Either or, I'm glad they learned their lessons from the previous game for a far more enjoyable experience.
...Cool.
He eats Raw Fish!
Eskimo Bob, oh Eskimo Bob,
He is...
Alfonzo's Arctic Adventure is a major improvement over Eskimo Bob. To make a comparison, Eskimo Bob felt much like an early NES title with its lack of story, repetitive gameplay and frustrating levels, Alfonzo's feels like a late NES game with much more liberties and variety. There are now multiple level tracks, much more unique and fun boss fights, and even more playable characters! The puzzle gameplay is improved by these additions.
Bob, who's moveset was absolutely useless in the last game, is missing here. Instead Alfonzo is joined by: Bob's replacement, Eskimo Magnus, who's downward fist can not only rush him downwards but also damage enemies. Fernwood who has low mobility, automatically breaks blocks, and is impervious to most forms of damage. And...Girl, who has the highest jump, further traveling projectiles, and is basically an upgrade to Alfonzo in every way, which doesn't add much to the levels like the other two do, just makes getting to her a goal unfortunately.
The levels all start as Alfonzo and it's up to you to use the tools given to get to the goal, or find one of the game's many secrets. There's Golden Fish, which are just a 1-up the game incentivizes you to collect (but if you miss it you can't replay previous levels for some reason, but thankfully according to achievements the devs don't ACTUALLY expect you to get all 96 of them.) and secret paths, allowing you to skip levels and in one case most of a world! Gotta keep your eyes peeled. If there is a 3rd Eskimo Bob game I wonder if it'd be 16-bit, and what else they could do to bring the series to games, or if they'll simply let Bob and Alfonzo rest for a bit. Either or, I'm glad they learned their lessons from the previous game for a far more enjoyable experience.
...Cool.