I have no idea why I enjoyed Bubsy as much as I did when I was a kid. For a decent span of time, my cousins and I would load this in every day after school, and we had fun with it. However, even at 9-years old, I could tell that something about Bubsy was off -- I could sense it was on a tier well below other platformer titles that I had played, like Mario, Sonic, and Rocket Knight Adventures. I also remember getting quite frustrated with dying in one hit, and the fall damage. But regardless, I still found some level of excitement in playing Bubsy, and I can't quite put my finger on it. When I go back to watch gameplay footage as an adult, I find myself sort of flabbergasted that I liked it at all, because I can clearly see it for the massively flawed game that it is, and there isn't a single thing about Bubsy that I find appealing at this stage. Still, I have to give it some sort of credit for keeping a naïve 9-year old me entertained for a month or two at the time.

I'd say my relationship with Bubsy is less love-to-hate and more hate-to-love. These games are ROOOUUUGGGHHH, not good at all, but I think there's some interesting ideas in the franchise and Bubsy himself is a very strong character who does deserve 9 lives' worth of second chances. CEOTFK is probably the best of the original 90s batch, Bubsy himself is fun to control but is unfortunately stuck in stages and with a camera not designed for speed. I don't mind the fall damage actually, it works well with the glide, but with such a short camera it's not that good. Is a decently fun time if you go into it expecting a Cat Mario-style rage game, but even then, you'd be better off playing well, Cat Mario. The playable-cartoon aspect is a good idea but maybe not executed the best, with the graphics being too 3-dimensional to really make it clear -
I'd say games like Cuphead or even Pizza Tower managed to pull off what Bubsy was going for quite well in recent years, hopefully whoever is trusted with the Bubsy IP next can look at games like those and strive for a similar quality.

I'd always known and felt that this game was terrible but I always kind of forget just how bad it is and how poorly put together it ended up being. The camera never plays fair, never actually showing everything you need to see, often requiring you to stop moving and look around (This is supposed to be like sonic, and I know that doesn't mean running fast all the time. In sonic you never have to stop in your tracks to look in order to properly see your surroundings. You always see just enough). Bubsy also having 1 hit point on top of that is quite miserable, as you trek forward slamming yourself into enemies you couldn't react to or even expect to be here. It's kind of just a trial and error game. I'm sure with that in mind you can get fairly good at it, but would you even want to?

4/10