The camera is dogged by every problem that 3D cameras had during this generation AND honks at you like a pervert whenever it refuses to cooperate. Agonizing. This rigidity does enable inspired uses of perspective from time to time, but they're not frequent enough to be worth it.

It would be one thing if the jokes were merely bad; instead, they are bad, repeated ad nauseam, and don't even make sense half the time. "This is like an all-nighter at Richard Simmons' house," Gex quips while in the technology world. What? That is not even a joke; that's saying "Richard Simmons" and hoping someone will laugh. I mostly played this to see if it tapped into its cultural moment in a way that justified its solid sales, but it truly is just a Super Mario 64 clone that feels like it was conceived and orchestrated by someone in the beginning stages of a dissociative disorder. Imagine meeting an unironic Gex fan in the wild. Chilling.