Plays extremely well on arcade stick. Graphics and aesthetic and and gameplay are all pretty great... and then the jetpack shows up. Whoever signed off on those awful controls should be fired immediately. It's interesting that the night level gimmick, which is far more compelling, shows up around the same time in the final world, but they decided that the awful jetpack that gets caught on invisible corners and controls the way someone who had only heard of video games through oral history would program it should get top billing in the last area. Meanwhile, the slide and slide jump are great additions to the formula, although crawling instead of sliding if you don't input a direction while pressing seems like a mistake. The wrasslin' leap slam move is fun but nearly pointless. Still, a pretty solid and colorful PS1 platformer worth checking out.

Reviewed on Sep 11, 2022


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