Oh boy. Here we go with a train wreck of a sequel. If you have ever played this game...
you probably have a good idea of the horrors that await you in Bubsy II. First off let me get this out there. Was I was far younger I actually enjoyed playing Bubsy II. I mean come on a bobcat jumping around, floating, etc to a little kid sounds kinda neat right? Well now not so much. So.... Bubsy II. Bubsy is back with a few of his friends like a little armadillo are off on some quest that I have no idea as to what it is about. Shutting down a theme park ran by a pig or something.
Alright so lets get into the game.
Scenes like this can be found at the start of every level... Clever right? Well that's about as far as the cleverness of this games goes.
Graphically the game isn't too far off the train. Sure some SNES games of the time had better graphics, but Bubsy II maintained that cartoon look that it needed and did a pretty okay job with it. Rating the graphics on a scale of 1-10 I'd probably give them a 6 or so. Right around average, nothing special. Despite not too bad graphics, the game suffers from horrendous level designs. Each level is basically a maze. Often times you'll feel like you are going through the same levels again and again. Well you basically are as many of the levels are very similar to each other.
These are two completely different levels, but in the end, they are very similar.
Musically, the game I don't think is too terrible either. The music can sometimes get a tad annoying, but in general I found no problems with it, just repetitive. I'll give it another 6 out of 10 largely due to the selection not being all that broad and some of it does get repetitive and annoying. Again, not terrible by any means in my opinion.
Welp that is about the only good things that come out of this game. Let's look at the ugly now.
If you want to use an SNES controller for this game or a Genesis controller, you might as well throw them out the window. The controls in this game are beyond bad. The button layout is simple and what not, but the responsiveness is far from there and Bubsy just does not cooperate most of the time. This alone makes for a beyond frustrating experience. There are some mini games within the game. Only one of them I feel is remotely entertaining and that's a kind of digital version of a carnival frog bog game.
Outside of that game, the mini games are pretty much pointless and worthless for that matter. This game also suffers from a severe lack of difficulty outside of getting Bubsy to do what you want. Each of the three "levels" of levels you go through are supposed to go from easy to hard. Well the hard is not really at all different from the easy and when you have a Nerf gun at your disposal (yeah... that....) that allows you to take out enemies without having to risk Bubsy getting hit. Gameplay I have to give a whopping 1 out of 10. Simply awful.
Final Verdict: The sound and the graphics are not terrible at all, but they are heavily eclipsed by downright awful gameplay, a pointless at best story, and a multiplayer (yeah that's a thing too) that serves little purpose since two people I don't think can physically play through this game at the same time without bashing their heads into a wall. So if this ever shows up on your television
Run far away. Do not hit left or right. Drop your SNES or whatever system the game is in into some holy water or something. I give Bubsy II a 2 out of 10. It's a game so bad that I had to own it.
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