There's glimmers of a way better game in here sprinkled throughout, but the experience you actually get is an extremely quick yet somehow very tedious and repetitive campaign that doesn't really manage to contain any real substance.

Some parts such as the more platforming focused levels and jump button could make a serious case for this being better than the console version, but everything else just blows that all away and you're left with a vapid experience. Any time to stop and explore the levels get thrown out the window when the game throws a timer on you halfway through each level for... reasons? To stop you overanalysing each level because the charm of them would fall apart? I don't know, because just going from point A to point B without the timer BS and having to work on the objectives is actually really fun, but the game does its best to ruin whatever good tends to be going on. Oh yeah, also half the levels are arena "fights" (collect as much money as possible) that still have the damn time limits. Enemies do boatloads of damage to compensate for what would otherwise be extremely simple mindless gameplay?


This game really frustrates me, because with so few tweaks I think it could at least be on-par with the console release (a game that's worst sin is being mediocre) but instead those little annoyances grow into big irks that change the entire way the game plays for the worse. I'll take said mediocre game over a boring, short and irritating one anyday.