It's choppy and very rough to play until you get used to the piss poor frame rate, but I still found some fun in completing it. The original Space Harrier was always off putting to me because of its insane difficulty, and for being a console only sequel, Space Harrier 2 does a good job of alleviating this by being more forgiving with extends as well as allowing you to pick any stage you'd like to start with. If it weren't for the fact that it runs at like 15 frames per second, this would have a much higher score. There is apparently a version of the game on the Sega Genesis Mini 2 that fixes the frame rate, but I doubt it'll ever get ported onto modern consoles or even dumped by hackers as the scene is having trouble with the copy protection on the unit atm.

Reviewed on Dec 15, 2023


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