King of the genre in my eyes, excellent varied environments, a simple story with a fantastic cast of heroes and Villans, and iconic voice lines and appropriate voice acting, especially innovative for it's time

The ability to go down different routes adds insane replayability, when I was younger I thought only the easy route existed and the other planets on the map were just there for decoration, finding out about the hard route years later blew my mind

Gameplay is fantastic, I think even non rail shooter game players would find joy in this game, beautiful graphics as well for the N64, remember watching the old N64 ad for the rumble pak that was included with this game and the hype was unreal

Excellent game that I come back to all the time, it's short length, insane replicability and tight satisfying gameplay keep this one a classic in my eyes and still hasn't been topped. Nintendo keeps trying to chase this high but hasnt come close except with some stages from Assault

9.5/10

Some good clean fun.

Played as part of the Switch N64 collection of games. Despite its age, it doesn't look half bad. The enemies are mostly indistinguishable but that's more of an "of it's time" kind of thing.

I was a Sega kid through and through growing up, but I did manage to play tiny bits of this at a friend's house. It's great to play it in full and experience the complete game. The mechanics are simple to pick up but there's definitely a degree of skill involved with mastering them to get through the hard route.

There's a lot of replay value thanks to the short length and the increasingly difficult routes. It's just not enough to keep me coming back. At least for a while anyway.