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.