I loved Bonk games on TG 16 growing up, and now this video has really encouraged me to keep my eyes out for this one to add to my collection. Thank you for sharing!
So I have been going back through some of my favorite content creators and watching videos that aren't marked as "watched". Apparently this was one of them but I swear I watched it before! Well after watching it (again) I believe you presented a great summation of the entire game! Your complaint about the game having too many bonus stages and a boss rush are certainly valid. It does cheapen the experience somewhat and I think the game could have benefited from adding one additional area to give the game more balance. Anyway, this is still one of those live stream playthroughs that I remember so vividly because the game is so colorful and quirky. I am glad you were able to give it a proper shake and enjoyed the experience! EGAR!
I think you were there for pretty much the entire livestream, so I can see why it might feel like you've seen this entire game (and this footage!) before :) And yeah, I would've appreciated a little more difficulty from some parts of this game but toward the end, those bonus levels were a lifesaver. I'm glad I pushed through this because the last stretch was trouble!
@@hungrygoriya I was! I remember it being one of the first Meatstick Mondays as well (my how time flies)! I can't wait until you dive into the sequel :)
The enemy eating you is super clever! I feel like an adaptation of the One Thousand and One Nights could leverage a concept like that and the confusion that comes with it since that story layers so many stories inside of another in a way that can be easy to lose track of.
Great review! I haven't played this Bonk, but I have played other Bonk games, specifically Bonk's Revenge. He's such a cute mascot, and his giant form is especially hilarious. I like his wacky Mario-like transformations, too. Game overall looks like fun! I wish I had picked it up for VC back when I was able to!
Thank you! I'm glad that it was at least released at some point on the VC, but it's a shame to see all of that gone away now. I hope that there will be a future re-release of the game in digital form for those that want to give it a whirl because it really is fun(ny). I wish I'd had a chance to try out some of the other games from this series. I don't want to open up the can of worms that is Turbografx 16 collecting.
Coming back to this video, I recently found out this game has warps that can move you forward in the game faster. All the years I've played this game, never even knew of them.
@@califaern3sto I actually played through Super Bonk 2 a few weeks ago and died on the final boss... but Doremi Fantasy is soooo expensive :( I'd love to own the cartridge but I don't think I'll be buying it any time soon at the going online rate.
That intro! Marvelous! You're great at these.. your thoughts are very-well worked out and presented so clearly, which is very appreciated. I doubt I'll ever play this game, but I was interested throughout the whole review. Great work, GG!
Thanks so much! It takes me forever to write this stuff down and formulate my thoughts so I'm glad it comes across as organized. I think it's a little too much on the easy side for you, though the last part of the game scaled up the difficulty quite a bit.
I love this game and I've played it a lot, but I had no idea about the giant forms having special abilities. Your video was the first time I've seen it in action and I've beat this game twice
I usually had them for so short a time that it was hard to feel them out at all, but yep! Nice work making it through this game by the way. I found the final boss fight really tough compared to everything else!
I got stuck there for an awfully long time. It would've been a shame not to include it. And thank you as always for watching my stuff. I always look forward to reading your comments :)
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Maybe its just my having grown up with Mega Man games, which are notorious for their boss rushes, but I think boss rushes can serve a purpose. They give players an opportunity to see how much they've grown by getting to flex on past foes. Of course, they work well in Mega Man games because players are guaranteed to have larger arsenals in the late game. I can understand boss rushes being annoying, though, in games in which players' characters don't change much or at all.
You have a really good point here! I think like you've said, they do fit in certain contexts but here, it just felt like filler to me. I could've done without them!
Another series known for boss rushes is Konami's Gradius series. The first game didn't have one, nor did Life Force, and Salamander 2, as well as the Game Boy games (or the Wiiware Gradius Rebirth), but the GBA game, the second, third, and fourth arcade games did, the PS1 Gradius Gaiden did, and Gradius V had 2 of them.
I really like your channel do you go into retro pc games? I feel like you review all the old games I played growing up that no one else seems to remember!
I've only done one PC review so far and it was on Sim Tower, but I do have a few others I'd like to do as well. I definitely hope to develop a broader scope over time.
I've always enjoyed the Bonk series, the TG-16 games I have on Wii VC still, enjoy the NES one I was lucky to get locally years ago for $20 when the game had already hit triple digit prices on Ebay, to both Game Boy ones I got off Ebay (first game US, sequel Japanese), and finally, both SNES games, first one found locally for SNES, the sequel, for SFC gotten off Ebay. I love how insane the first SFC game is, Bonk has always been an oddball series, so it fit right in. The sequel was mainly linear, unlike the first game, so no multiple paths to find and play through.
The Bonk series is something I'd like to play more of. I have a TG-16 mini but unfortunately the way I'm set up here has a bit of input lag, which I find really hard to deal with in a platformer. Either way though, good for you for getting your hands on the NES and Game Boy games for a steal!
It was definitely a fun but weird game, absolutely! After finally playing the sequel to this, it only underscores just how strange this game is compared to others from the series. This is the only one I've seen that feels so disjointed!
I almost grabbed this for SFC this weekend. It was in CIB and I didn't want to pay the $80 for it haha you sold me on this game more than the other reviewers that just make joke after joke after joke afterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I'm happy that you'll be picking it up! I doubt you'll miss much other than some of the humour in the level titles, which is minimal. Sometimes they give hints about what to do, but most things are pretty straightforward. I'm not good at jokes, so that's probably why I don't make them :P
Awesome series and great review. I don't have that one but I do have Super Bonk II and he's a slippery little guy, more intricate play control than Mario or Sonic.
Yeah! Some of the moves in Super Bonk II make him even harder to control as well, with the longer jumps and things. I still haven't managed to finish it.
Bonk reminds of Toys R Us. I'd see it all the time on the TG 16 demo. And I wanted it and a TG16 so badly. I mean I knew I'd never get it so I didn't push it. But I'd look on wistfully It also reminds me of how the place had the box art in a plastic sleeve with tickets for the game below it. You'd take the ticket to the register then go to a booth to get the game after paying. So I'd take tickets of games I really wanted, thinking it would reserve me a copy until I could buy it
I didn't get to experience Toys R Us much except for when I was really little, but it's sweet that you used to try to reserve a game for yourself! Awww!
@@hungrygoriya I went there a lot as a kid and worked there until the year they closed. I just remember flipping the hanging box art to look at the back. It's why I got Castlevania. Loved it. Still mad at my cousin for saying the cross was a boomerang and holy water was a fire bomb
@@hungrygoriya I liked it but for the terrible bosses and even worse pay. If I got a chance to work in another toy story with better pay and less stress than there, I'd jump at it
I kind of understand boss rushes but I'm not a huge fan of them either unless they do something to recontextualize the fight. Like maybe you have a power-up now that you wouldn't have had the first fight around with the boss. Or maybe the environment is slightly different and that changes the pattern. But I'm thinking of games with save files. I'd hate that in a game without one. I think the point is to show how far you've come and to give the game a little extra length. But really it's just some extra tedium because you know what to do and how to do it and if one of the bosses is unforgiving it just creates a sense of dread.
I... am currently stuck on a boss rush that I've sunken around 5 or 6 hours into attempting and can't seem to get past... I know this dread feeling all too well. >:(
Fun but weird certainly describes bonk games. I hope you've played more of them. I was introduced via the Gameboy game, and while its not in colour, its probably my fav. It definitely screams I wasn't really made for this companies consoles, and TurboGrafx was definitely where he shined.
It's funny because the only other Bonk game I've played since this review is Super Genjin 2 on the Super Famicom (this one's follow-up) and it's even weirder! I do have a Turbografx mini and I think there's a few Bonk games on there I could give a try sometime, but the input lag on that system's a little offputting to me. I'd love to give the Game Boy one a whirl some day.
Yeah, I've tried both SNES ones. Hard to reliably pull off the headbonks, but fun. Bonk got me to try the turbo out, but Gameboy is also one of his cheapest outings, if that helps (unless you've got everdrives). NES I think is most. Its cool you respond, I hadn't had much time to watch your channel recently so I binged today(haha, sorry). Found you from trav&alex, I like you review stuff I've never heard of or own but haven't gotten around to yet. Appreciate your hard work!
@@ggbetz I try my best to keep up with comments as they come in. The discussion is the fun part after the work putting the video together is done! And thanks so much about the channel :) No need to apologize. I'm glad I have a backlog of things to check out at this point. And those nice folks over at the Drunkfriend podcast have sent a lot of nice folks my way. I'm very grateful!
It's on my list to pick up! It was mentioned to me quite a bit when I was playing through this game on stream, so I'm going to order it soon. I keep forgetting!
I wish I had known about this one as a kid. I played the crap out of the original on Turbografx and beat it many times. Though seeing it on TG16 and here on Super Nintendo makes me wonder what a Genesis or Sega CD version would have looked like?
This was my first Bonk game, but I'm hoping to finally be able to play some of the earlier games. I'm planning to get the Turbografx Mini and I think one or two of them will be on there. Have you played the sequel to this that was Japan-only? I have that hanging around as well.
@@hungrygoriya I've only black Super Bonk 2 or whatever the title is once on a Raspberry Pi 'emulation' it's ok. Bonk was actually one of my first games ever... the Turbografx-16 was my introduction to gaming in like 93 when I was 5. Bonks Adventure & Bonks Revenge are pure nostalgia for me.. with Bonks Revenge being a really good game. Air Zonk is really good to. The spin off series where Bonk is a cyborg in the further. It's a shoot em up game instead of a platformer
@@lovelorn88nick Well I am excited to get into more games in the series. I'm glad it's very nostalgic for you. I wish I'd gotten to play some of these games when I was younger.
Wait...what sort of black magic is this? Bonk and Zonk were NEC's mascots for the TG-16. I knew there was an Nes game that is essentially the first game with severely reduced graphics and sound. However, Bonk on the Snes...now you've really lost me. When did this happen and where was I? Addendum- You know what's odd...I never cared for the Bonk games on the TG-16. I own I think three of them as they came on my Core Grafx Mini and even though I finished them...I just couldn't get into them. I loved Sonic and Mario but not Bonk. Maybe this one might be more my cup of tea? It's an oddity I'll tell you that and therefore will be added to our collection.
Super Bonk and its sequel on the Super Famicom, Super Genjin 2, are both very funny and quirky. If you end up liking Super Bonk, definitely check out the SFC game as well.
Ha - you're definitely not the only one who finds "Buttcheeks-on-Head"-Bonk off-putting XD I only played some of the games either the Virtual Console or PS3 (I had a JP account, and the Japanese PSN has a whole extra "Classics" store that we didn't get - a PC engine store to along with the PSOne and PS2 Classics), but the one I think I'm remembering must be Bonk 3. Still, a version of that was in there, albeit less hideous than this one, and man oh man did I hate "Buttcheek head" whenever he'd show up. God he comes out of nowhere, and he's so unappealing. I don't even know what the _intent_ was with him - it's almost like he's de-evolving or something. But no other "Caveman game" has that kind of thing - not Joe & Mac, not Flintstones, not Prehistorik Man. He sucks. Normal Bonk is pretty cute and likeable - I wish Hudson just stopped making that monstrous version at some point in the series. I ALSO hate boss rushes! I really like your reviews though (^-^)
I'm glad I'm not the only one that was a little taken aback by the style of that version of Bonk... and if they dragged that ugliness through other games, that's unfortunate too! I wish I had dabbled more in the Virtual Console while it was still a thing, but I've missed the PS3 stuff completely, Japan or otherwise. I got a PS3 a few years ago at a thrift store and it sounds like it's a rocket going into space when it's on because the fan is so loud! And thanks for stopping over and checking out some reviews. I've got lots of others up in the air but I'm a slow writer, so more are likely to trickle out slowly as they get finished up.
I loved Bonk games on TG 16 growing up, and now this video has really encouraged me to keep my eyes out for this one to add to my collection. Thank you for sharing!
I hope you can find it. It's a little bit on the expensive side I think, but if you can find it cheap, definitely scoop it up!
So I have been going back through some of my favorite content creators and watching videos that aren't marked as "watched". Apparently this was one of them but I swear I watched it before! Well after watching it (again) I believe you presented a great summation of the entire game! Your complaint about the game having too many bonus stages and a boss rush are certainly valid. It does cheapen the experience somewhat and I think the game could have benefited from adding one additional area to give the game more balance. Anyway, this is still one of those live stream playthroughs that I remember so vividly because the game is so colorful and quirky. I am glad you were able to give it a proper shake and enjoyed the experience! EGAR!
I think you were there for pretty much the entire livestream, so I can see why it might feel like you've seen this entire game (and this footage!) before :) And yeah, I would've appreciated a little more difficulty from some parts of this game but toward the end, those bonus levels were a lifesaver. I'm glad I pushed through this because the last stretch was trouble!
@@hungrygoriya I was! I remember it being one of the first Meatstick Mondays as well (my how time flies)! I can't wait until you dive into the sequel :)
The enemy eating you is super clever!
I feel like an adaptation of the One Thousand and One Nights could leverage a concept like that and the confusion that comes with it since that story layers so many stories inside of another in a way that can be easy to lose track of.
Great review! I haven't played this Bonk, but I have played other Bonk games, specifically Bonk's Revenge. He's such a cute mascot, and his giant form is especially hilarious. I like his wacky Mario-like transformations, too. Game overall looks like fun! I wish I had picked it up for VC back when I was able to!
Thank you! I'm glad that it was at least released at some point on the VC, but it's a shame to see all of that gone away now. I hope that there will be a future re-release of the game in digital form for those that want to give it a whirl because it really is fun(ny). I wish I'd had a chance to try out some of the other games from this series. I don't want to open up the can of worms that is Turbografx 16 collecting.
Coming back to this video, I recently found out this game has warps that can move you forward in the game faster. All the years I've played this game, never even knew of them.
Love your voice and your review was spot on! Subscribed!
Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed the review :)
@@hungrygoriya you should import super bonk 2 and doremi fantasy for the snes you'll like them a lot, especially doremi panic
@@califaern3sto I actually played through Super Bonk 2 a few weeks ago and died on the final boss... but Doremi Fantasy is soooo expensive :( I'd love to own the cartridge but I don't think I'll be buying it any time soon at the going online rate.
That intro! Marvelous! You're great at these.. your thoughts are very-well worked out and presented so clearly, which is very appreciated. I doubt I'll ever play this game, but I was interested throughout the whole review. Great work, GG!
Thanks so much! It takes me forever to write this stuff down and formulate my thoughts so I'm glad it comes across as organized. I think it's a little too much on the easy side for you, though the last part of the game scaled up the difficulty quite a bit.
Well, whatever your method, keep it up, because it comes out great. Hey, I enjoy an easy game from time to time too! :)
You're too kind. Really, thank you so much!
I love this game and I've played it a lot, but I had no idea about the giant forms having special abilities. Your video was the first time I've seen it in action and I've beat this game twice
I usually had them for so short a time that it was hard to feel them out at all, but yep! Nice work making it through this game by the way. I found the final boss fight really tough compared to everything else!
Lol at the end you used that clip from when you got stuck at the wine glass. Amazing video!
I got stuck there for an awfully long time. It would've been a shame not to include it. And thank you as always for watching my stuff. I always look forward to reading your comments :)
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What a weird problem! I'm not sure what to do to fix it, but thank you for letting others know.
This was an awesome review!! I need to get this 🤗
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. It's definitely worth trying out if you can find it.
Your channel is superb!! I love this!!! Super Bonk was amazing!!
Thanks so much! I'm glad you're enjoying your tour :)
Maybe its just my having grown up with Mega Man games, which are notorious for their boss rushes, but I think boss rushes can serve a purpose. They give players an opportunity to see how much they've grown by getting to flex on past foes. Of course, they work well in Mega Man games because players are guaranteed to have larger arsenals in the late game. I can understand boss rushes being annoying, though, in games in which players' characters don't change much or at all.
You have a really good point here! I think like you've said, they do fit in certain contexts but here, it just felt like filler to me. I could've done without them!
Another series known for boss rushes is Konami's Gradius series. The first game didn't have one, nor did Life Force, and Salamander 2, as well as the Game Boy games (or the Wiiware Gradius Rebirth), but the GBA game, the second, third, and fourth arcade games did, the PS1 Gradius Gaiden did, and Gradius V had 2 of them.
I really like your channel do you go into retro pc games? I feel like you review all the old games I played growing up that no one else seems to remember!
I've only done one PC review so far and it was on Sim Tower, but I do have a few others I'd like to do as well. I definitely hope to develop a broader scope over time.
Great review, I need to snap this one up, looks like a lot of fun! Good job Goriya. :)
It's really a fun little game. And thank you! I was happy to put something out. It had been a little while :)
I've always enjoyed the Bonk series, the TG-16 games I have on Wii VC still, enjoy the NES one I was lucky to get locally years ago for $20 when the game had already hit triple digit prices on Ebay, to both Game Boy ones I got off Ebay (first game US, sequel Japanese), and finally, both SNES games, first one found locally for SNES, the sequel, for SFC gotten off Ebay. I love how insane the first SFC game is, Bonk has always been an oddball series, so it fit right in. The sequel was mainly linear, unlike the first game, so no multiple paths to find and play through.
The Bonk series is something I'd like to play more of. I have a TG-16 mini but unfortunately the way I'm set up here has a bit of input lag, which I find really hard to deal with in a platformer. Either way though, good for you for getting your hands on the NES and Game Boy games for a steal!
I always found this game to be very ambitious and strange. Great review. I appreciate how you acknowledge how disorienting this game can be.
It was definitely a fun but weird game, absolutely! After finally playing the sequel to this, it only underscores just how strange this game is compared to others from the series. This is the only one I've seen that feels so disjointed!
I almost grabbed this for SFC this weekend. It was in CIB and I didn't want to pay the $80 for it haha
you sold me on this game more than the other reviewers that just make joke after joke after joke afterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I'm happy that you'll be picking it up! I doubt you'll miss much other than some of the humour in the level titles, which is minimal. Sometimes they give hints about what to do, but most things are pretty straightforward.
I'm not good at jokes, so that's probably why I don't make them :P
Awesome series and great review. I don't have that one but I do have Super Bonk II and he's a slippery little guy, more intricate play control than Mario or Sonic.
Yeah! Some of the moves in Super Bonk II make him even harder to control as well, with the longer jumps and things. I still haven't managed to finish it.
@@hungrygoriya I'm doin Tengai Makyou Zero and Super Bonk II right now. Loving both of em.
Bonk reminds of Toys R Us. I'd see it all the time on the TG 16 demo. And I wanted it and a TG16 so badly. I mean I knew I'd never get it so I didn't push it. But I'd look on wistfully
It also reminds me of how the place had the box art in a plastic sleeve with tickets for the game below it. You'd take the ticket to the register then go to a booth to get the game after paying. So I'd take tickets of games I really wanted, thinking it would reserve me a copy until I could buy it
I didn't get to experience Toys R Us much except for when I was really little, but it's sweet that you used to try to reserve a game for yourself! Awww!
@@hungrygoriya I went there a lot as a kid and worked there until the year they closed.
I just remember flipping the hanging box art to look at the back. It's why I got Castlevania. Loved it. Still mad at my cousin for saying the cross was a boomerang and holy water was a fire bomb
@@briansmith1288 That would've been such a cool job! I'm very jealous. That sounds awesome!
@@hungrygoriya I liked it but for the terrible bosses and even worse pay. If I got a chance to work in another toy story with better pay and less stress than there, I'd jump at it
Alimentary canal mention! Yay for science! 😊
Everyone loves a little science :D
Awesome review! I didn't know anything about this game or how strange it was lol.
Thanks so much for watching! I didn't know about this game either until I stumbled upon it at a yard sale and bought it. It was a good gamble :)
I kind of understand boss rushes but I'm not a huge fan of them either unless they do something to recontextualize the fight. Like maybe you have a power-up now that you wouldn't have had the first fight around with the boss. Or maybe the environment is slightly different and that changes the pattern. But I'm thinking of games with save files. I'd hate that in a game without one.
I think the point is to show how far you've come and to give the game a little extra length. But really it's just some extra tedium because you know what to do and how to do it and if one of the bosses is unforgiving it just creates a sense of dread.
I... am currently stuck on a boss rush that I've sunken around 5 or 6 hours into attempting and can't seem to get past... I know this dread feeling all too well. >:(
Fun but weird certainly describes bonk games. I hope you've played more of them. I was introduced via the Gameboy game, and while its not in colour, its probably my fav. It definitely screams I wasn't really made for this companies consoles, and TurboGrafx was definitely where he shined.
It's funny because the only other Bonk game I've played since this review is Super Genjin 2 on the Super Famicom (this one's follow-up) and it's even weirder! I do have a Turbografx mini and I think there's a few Bonk games on there I could give a try sometime, but the input lag on that system's a little offputting to me. I'd love to give the Game Boy one a whirl some day.
Yeah, I've tried both SNES ones. Hard to reliably pull off the headbonks, but fun. Bonk got me to try the turbo out, but Gameboy is also one of his cheapest outings, if that helps (unless you've got everdrives). NES I think is most.
Its cool you respond, I hadn't had much time to watch your channel recently so I binged today(haha, sorry). Found you from trav&alex, I like you review stuff I've never heard of or own but haven't gotten around to yet. Appreciate your hard work!
@@ggbetz I try my best to keep up with comments as they come in. The discussion is the fun part after the work putting the video together is done!
And thanks so much about the channel :) No need to apologize. I'm glad I have a backlog of things to check out at this point. And those nice folks over at the Drunkfriend podcast have sent a lot of nice folks my way. I'm very grateful!
Neat review. I've been planning to play this game for a while now. Er ... you familiar with the sequel, by any chance?
It's on my list to pick up! It was mentioned to me quite a bit when I was playing through this game on stream, so I'm going to order it soon. I keep forgetting!
You definitely should. Super Bonk 2 (a.k.a. Chou-Genjin 2) turns up the weirdness to 12. :3
I wish I had known about this one as a kid. I played the crap out of the original on Turbografx and beat it many times. Though seeing it on TG16 and here on Super Nintendo makes me wonder what a Genesis or Sega CD version would have looked like?
The sequel on the Super Famicom is a real trip too!
@@hungrygoriya *Double Take* Wait! What?! There are TWO?!
@@chaospoet Yes! Super Bonk 2 is Super Genjin 2 I think?
The second one is way better. It’s a super fam game but there is an English translation online
Yeah I've tried that one out actually! It's pretty fun, I agree. The humour's so much more over the top in that one!
Bonks Revenge is still my favorite. Followed by Bonks Adventure. Bonks 3 and this one 'basically Bonk 4' was kinda blah for me
This was my first Bonk game, but I'm hoping to finally be able to play some of the earlier games. I'm planning to get the Turbografx Mini and I think one or two of them will be on there. Have you played the sequel to this that was Japan-only? I have that hanging around as well.
@@hungrygoriya I've only black Super Bonk 2 or whatever the title is once on a Raspberry Pi 'emulation' it's ok. Bonk was actually one of my first games ever... the Turbografx-16 was my introduction to gaming in like 93 when I was 5. Bonks Adventure & Bonks Revenge are pure nostalgia for me.. with Bonks Revenge being a really good game. Air Zonk is really good to. The spin off series where Bonk is a cyborg in the further. It's a shoot em up game instead of a platformer
@@lovelorn88nick Well I am excited to get into more games in the series. I'm glad it's very nostalgic for you. I wish I'd gotten to play some of these games when I was younger.
Wait...what sort of black magic is this? Bonk and Zonk were NEC's mascots for the TG-16. I knew there was an Nes game that is essentially the first game with severely reduced graphics and sound. However, Bonk on the Snes...now you've really lost me. When did this happen and where was I?
Addendum- You know what's odd...I never cared for the Bonk games on the TG-16. I own I think three of them as they came on my Core Grafx Mini and even though I finished them...I just couldn't get into them. I loved Sonic and Mario but not Bonk. Maybe this one might be more my cup of tea? It's an oddity I'll tell you that and therefore will be added to our collection.
Super Bonk and its sequel on the Super Famicom, Super Genjin 2, are both very funny and quirky. If you end up liking Super Bonk, definitely check out the SFC game as well.
@@hungrygoriya
I definitely will!
Ha - you're definitely not the only one who finds "Buttcheeks-on-Head"-Bonk off-putting XD
I only played some of the games either the Virtual Console or PS3 (I had a JP account, and the Japanese PSN has a whole extra "Classics" store that we didn't get - a PC engine store to along with the PSOne and PS2 Classics), but the one I think I'm remembering must be Bonk 3. Still, a version of that was in there, albeit less hideous than this one, and man oh man did I hate "Buttcheek head" whenever he'd show up. God he comes out of nowhere, and he's so unappealing. I don't even know what the _intent_ was with him - it's almost like he's de-evolving or something. But no other "Caveman game" has that kind of thing - not Joe & Mac, not Flintstones, not Prehistorik Man. He sucks. Normal Bonk is pretty cute and likeable - I wish Hudson just stopped making that monstrous version at some point in the series.
I ALSO hate boss rushes!
I really like your reviews though (^-^)
I'm glad I'm not the only one that was a little taken aback by the style of that version of Bonk... and if they dragged that ugliness through other games, that's unfortunate too! I wish I had dabbled more in the Virtual Console while it was still a thing, but I've missed the PS3 stuff completely, Japan or otherwise. I got a PS3 a few years ago at a thrift store and it sounds like it's a rocket going into space when it's on because the fan is so loud!
And thanks for stopping over and checking out some reviews. I've got lots of others up in the air but I'm a slow writer, so more are likely to trickle out slowly as they get finished up.
Gosh dang, I always thought this series was ugly as sin and all these years later... I kinda still think it is.
It has a very distinct aesthetic. I like how colourful it is though!
@hungrygoriya this is the most polite description ever lol. Admittedly i think color wise the turbographix was probably the best console for it.
You really let a single sprite keep you from playing a game?
Yeah, mostly it just bumped it down my list. I had lots of other things I was more impressed by and interested in at the time.
Aesthetically, this game looks great. As for the rest of the game... meh. I've never been able to get too into the Bonk games. Gonna pass on this one.
only good bonk game
Have you tried Super Bonk 2 on the Super Famicom? I think it's called Super Genjin 2.
@@hungrygoriya i only love super bonk
What a waste of time video games were. No useful skills developed from them whatsoever. Such a shame.
Nah, I enjoyed the time spent with the games and the people I met through the hobby
Hand eye coordination, thinking skills, muscle memory, nah they weren't the waste of time you think they were.
I really enjoyed this bizarre game, and I thought that it deserved much more credit...
Big like & Sub!!!
It's a fun one! I'm glad you enjoyed it too!