Gotta give credit where it's due: where other, less ballsy companies would see a conceptual early build of this and say, "nah, scrap it," Treasure says, "fuck it, we're going for it." Gotta love that about them... their bad games are always interesting bad.

Here they go for broke on an absolutely bizarre mechanic (left stick controls character, right stick independently controls scarf-hand which can grab and stretch anything in the environment like taffy), and a disconcerting artstyle to match, complete with random pencil shading and weird character proportions (to say the least) and nonsensical saturday-morning-cartoon bosses. It's all a big mess, a series of failed experiments... some of which still manage to charm in spite of their failure.

Honestly, if it weren't for the absolutely dead-brained "platforming"(?) levels, and for the unfortunate, inexplicable decision to have the game's main enemies be ladies with balloon breasts (????) I might say it's pretty alright.