Bubsy II

GOOD GRIEF... what was Accolade ON? Bubsy returns with cheesy puns, Slowed frame rate, and everything else that shouldn't be in a sequel

        The puns aren't very punny.                  Uh... get some pants if you insist at

                                                                    being at that angle... thanks Bubsy.

Ironhawk's Review

Graphics: 4    Just like the first Bubsy's graphics, only with all of the beauty sucked out and deposited straight into the crapper.  The vibrant colors are now dim, the well-drawn sprites now look like pixilated barf, the font for the onscreen text is fat and orange...

Sound: 0        Remember when you were at the dentist last?  You hadn't been brushing and flossing after every meal, so you needed to have a tooth removed.  But the dentist, bless his heart, forgot to give you the laughing gas.  So you were in torment for a full hour, hearing that horrible whine of the drill, watching the psychotic doctor laughing, and drilling, and laughing, and drilling, and you were begging the Grim Reaper to please spare you, take you now!  I only say that to put this into perspective:  There is nothing, I repeat nothing on this planet quite as bad as the Bubsy II sound design.  The sound effects are few and horrid, and their quality is so bad, it's like the developers used a tape recorder hooked up to an aluminum can to capture them.  And the music!  Mere mortal words are not nearly enough to describe the sheer abomination that is...  Aaaargh!  They remixed "The Muffin Man"!  What were they on?  And why were they on it?  I mean it couldn't have been pleasant.  This abhorrence is interspersed with non-witty quotes by Bubsy at the beginning of each level: "Is the writer's strike over yet?"  No, Bubsy, there were no writers in the first place.

Playability: 3    The control is okay, but the level designs are pretty bad.  The stages are about as tall as they are wide, more so than the original Bubsy, but that wouldn't be so bad, it's just that there are so many springboards and stuff to boost you up floors and so many holes to bring you down that it's disorienting.  And the wantonly placed enemies that you run into don't help.

Concept: 1       It's a platform game, that doesn't help.  And it's a sequel, that brings down the concept rating a tad.  And the overworld concept (a mansion with warp pads that send you to the middle ages or outer space) isn't exactly stellar.  And the idea to make everything a pun on pigs is baffling (maybe they got into a hammy situation and needed to cook up a solution.  Hey, that could be in the game.  Seriously.)  What stops the game from getting a big, ugly zero as its concept rating?  In the two player mode, you can either do cooperative or competitive.  The second player gets to be a propeller cap-wearing kid Bubsy.  See, it's the little things in life that count.

Retro Value: 0 Buy this game immediately!  SNES cartridges are excellent for propping up windows.

Overall: 0        This entire game is one big pun.  "Oh, game?  I thought you said pain."

Nightowl's Review

Graphics: 3    I don't know how the graphics get worse in a sequel... I just don't know. And there are serious frame rate problems when there's more then two enemies on the screen at a time... and everything looks fuzzy.

Sound: 0    Now I see what old people are saying by, "Turn that noise down you little whippersnappers!" Not only does the music repeat every twenty seconds, but it also speeds up every single time you start running.  This is bad because there are almost no straight-aways like in the last game... the music slows down... speeds up... slows down... speeds up... it. And they got a new Bubsy voice... it sounds like someone on drugs and medication at the same time... geez.... I get angry just thinking about it....

Playability: 2    The controls remain the same... except there are clunky weapons now... and the reaction times are slow... very slow.

Concept: 0    "Let's take 'Bubsy' and put gimmicky weapons in it!  That'll be cool! And let's turn the name of each stage into a pun!  That'll be fun!"

Retro Value: 0   I'm looking for someone to dump this game on... preferably someone I hate.  I only play this game when I want to know what a bad one feels like.

Overall: 0    We won't be seeing any more of the Bubsy franchise...