Bubsy - Sega Genesis Review
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Episode Notes:
1. Captured on the Mega SG.
2. Bubsy II was also a very well reviewed game.
3. The SNES version of this is largely the same game.
4. Bubsy 3D is notoriously one of the worst games ever made.
5. Accolade made unlicensed games for the Genesis in its infancy. A court settlement got games like Bubsy to eventually carry the Sega seal.
6. Accolade would sign on as a publisher for the Sega Saturn, but didn't release a single game for it.
Bubsy is what you rent when you've played everything else on the shelves that looked good or interesting, but you don't feel like going home empty handed. It's more notable for the failings of many other platformers which it avoids than anything special it does right. It is competent and inoffensive.
And you only have to rent it once since it's so easy
I mean, you could always rent Zool again. Or why not give Zoop a try? That had a neat looking box!
It was funny, I was thinking about "I haven't seen anything from Sega Lord X in awhile" and I went and checked your page, nothing new. Like 2 minutes later you posted this video. Mind Blown!
An objective review of Bubsy that doesn't just shit all over it? On the INTERNET?! What a time to be alive.
I don't think SLX does this one justice. The graphics aren't good, they are downright ugly. Terrible, drab colors, ugly setpieces repeated a million times over, completely uninspired themes like "grass and trees" or "wild west", no story to speak of, a protagonist with no character and no reason to even like them let alone to want to play as them. You can tell the team never even THOUGHT of hiring an artist to do the graphics, any sort of world building, or the music which again is just horrendous. AWFUL controls. The character feels laggy and floaty, two of the worst things you can do in a platformer, and the animations are too long and make the stupid looking squirrel/rat abomination feel unresponsive and hard to control. This character doesn't have "speed", this is a precision platformer where you have to weigh out every jump or you fall off the map (yeah because THAT is great gameplay) and when you press down on the dpad it's either slow as a snal or immediately transitions to so fast you lose any control at all, which is just a straight up asshole move when the levels are mostly made up of tiny floating platforms above endless pits. The voice lines are absolutely horrendous and make the blood freeze in my veins. They sound like someone is straining through squeezing out a turd that's too large for their brown ring to let through while recording the dumbest lines possible. It sounds like i'm listening to Gilbert Gottfried pretending to be a baby, complete with apron and sucker. And that's what you are if you bought this game, a sucker, because it's HORRIBLE. The levels lack structure and are completely nonsensical. Items and level elements are just randomly strewn around like the level designer was a fevering 9 year old on too much medication who's making the first game level in their life. The game is a long, arduous, and uninteresting sh tstain that goes on far too long and finally ends without any fanfare. This turd really deserved a much worse lambasting than it received; if i got this as my first game i would have ended up hating gaming forever. I would NEVER inflict this on a younger brother or sister, i don't hate my family and i don't want them to hate me. Add to it that it was made by a religious zealot for the cherry on top and you've got a real piece of crap on your hands, better wash that off with chlorine before someone catches you cackhanded. In fact, after watching those graphics, I might just pour some into my eyesockets.
I think Bubsy works best in its two player mode. You die frequently, so neither person is waiting long to play, and the frequent deaths that frustrate you while playing alone typically spark playful laughs between the players. It is a very social experience to see who can last longer. You get to see what did in the other player to try to do better (and try to outdo the other player by not getting caught by the same mishap), and it makes things a more enjoyable experience. Play Bubsy with a friend, paugh and learn from each other, and you'll get a lot more enjoyment out of it.
Shared misery is half misery as they say. Then again, you could just put in MK at this point and rip out each others spine. You can also do fatalities in game.
@@malchir4036LOL good comment
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Thank you. It's great to hear you enjoy the content.
It's got the look that so many Amiga 500 platform games had at the time, especially the character designs. Not that there was anything wrong with Amiga 500 games though. I never played this one but whenever I hear it mentioned I immediately just think of the 3D attempt that's universally panned.
I have an idea for a future episode for you if you'd like to do it some time? The House of the dead arcade series.
Imagine you go out in public and someone is wearing the Bubsy shirt. On top of that, you surprise yourself because you actually recognized the Bubsy shirt. It'd be like meeting a fellow time traveler.
It’s funny that I knew Bubsy before I knew what a Bobcat was…
There are very few Bobcats in Edinburgh 😂
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Modern reviews are very harsh on this title: it's sure doesn't hold to Sonic in comparison, but it is far from being a terrible game. Well, it's not excellent either, but it's SO MUCH better than its sequels!
No, its a terrible and boring game!
@@brutochanchada I agree: it's boring. But it's not terrible: have a go at Dark Castle or Sword of Sodan, and you'll see what a terrible game really is!
@@juetrollMy favorite comparison is Bubsy vs. Awesome Possum.
What Sonic got right that Bubsy didn't is you can mindlessly speed along the ground with accommodating terrain. It's jumping around mindlessly that gets you killed. Bubsy moving fast at any time runs the risk of sudden death, so the player is penalized for exploiting that speed. Plus too many innocuous things get you killed (running into those stationary roller coaster cars, the bouncing manhole covers, the giraffes).
God forbid a game requires you to actually pay attention.
The ring system was implemented for a reason. One-hit deaths in a game where you can’t always see what’s coming is a bad idea.
@@Cade_The_Squirrel It's also nice when the game is fun to play as opposed to an extreme act of masochism.
That's my main gripe with the game. A lot of the time, the enemies and environmental dangers blend into the background when you're going at full speed.
It doesn't matter how much attention you're paying, you're gonna run into something.
If they implemented the ring system from Sonic in this using the balls of yearn, that would have solved that problem.
@@duhdeedee Or the three-hit system from Bubsy 2.
Or hell, just make the hits more lenient and shrink the hitboxes.
I was a SNES kid and I was desperate for this game because a UK magazine called it "The closest we will ever get to Sonic on a Nintendo console." I finally landed my hands on it and my goodness the difficulty was brutal. I never completed it. The first few levels do hold nostalgia for me, but there was no way it deserved the high review scores!
Same, mostly bc I couldn't get past a level or 2. 😂😂😂
Bubsy gives a bad name to bobcats everywhere.
I remember seeing this on a game show here in Australia called A*mazing (styled like that too) where you'd play one of the first level and try to get the most yarn balls... We didn't know better at the time in the mid 90s, but... What a crock.
I remember that show and i'm pretty sure the kids were playing the SNES version on the show.
@@Oysterblade84 Given they had Mario Kart on the show too, you're probably right.
i remember the sequel had a nerf gun as a weapon(the ballzooka). its one of those things that you have to look it up to make sure your not just remembering craziness.
I bought Bubsy when it launched on SNES. I made myself play it, lol. Back then I had what I could obtain and had to play em. I ended up being really good at it and enjoying it.
"It's me...Bubsy!"
_oh no..._
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i read that in Antdude for some reason. lol
While its not as bad as Green Dog, this was another example of reviewers leading me off a cliff. Curse those 90s game reviewers.
hey now, Greendog is a cool game..
The 2000s reviewers were worse. GreenDog was pretty cool, I thought.
I enjoyed Bubsy back in the day
I guess you had a high frustration tolerance
@@napoleonfeanor true, in games as well as life lol
You have to remember with the old game review scores that it was hard to find a score that was less than the mid 70’s. Back then, a mid 80’s score meant a game could be pretty average. Everything was compressed in to 30 percentage points.
I remember Bubsy. It was one of my favorite platformers when was a kid. Honestly, I don't remember much about the game like I remember the Super Mario Bros. series on the NES and SNES.
I've disliked Bubsy since day 1. The graphics are colorful and have some nice effects here and there, but the artwork is bad (and you just mentioned that right after I typed this lol). And this is yet another game where sound is neglected. The music isn't very good and the sound quality of it is even worse. The game was rated very highly thanks to Accolade's high $$$ marketing campaign. Reviews can indeed be bought. Notice how Bubsy was on the cover of every magazine from the time? Yeah.
Now maybe I am just misremembering but I thought the game sounded alright, especially the digitized audio of Bubsy. I got the game with a stack of games like Batman Returns and I would choose Bubsy over Batman ANY day of the week. I was also a dumb kid at the time though, I had just heard way worse on the Genesis.
Sure, I've seen your Bubsy underpants.
Is it really too hard to believe people genuinely like this game? Bubsy received high praise because it was a well made game with love and reverence for the genre, Michael Berlyn was a brilliant designer.
Joe from Gamesack commenting on a Sega Lord X video is awesome :)
I'll be watching your video in a few hours Joe!
First off, as a French gamer, you immediately unlocked a memory with that excerpt from a French magazine I vividly remember owning! 😄
I must have been around 12 when Bubsy came out, but I remember finding it slippery and boring even by the time.
I totally am with you on this game, despite trying to enjoy it as much as I could (after all, it had cost my parents a lot)!
I know it must be part of some people's memories, but I can't see how an older gamer would have loved it so much. As for younger kids like myself, I found it too difficult and unpolished, compared to Mario and Sonic, to whom I quickly came back!
A friend of mine had this game, we used to laugh alot at the humor and voice samples. The game was colorful but damn if it didn't age well....
11:00 Sums my experience up perfectly. When you get to Level 3, the desert, Bubsy becomes a nightmare in my opinion. Every screen is just one hit death and it never lets up for the rest of the game. I would know, I beat it.
I always had the most trouble in the forest levels, but all I remember of the desert is that stupid deflating animation when you get popped.
@@Nick-gx1re yes the mountains and tree top levels are even worse
I was 11 when Bubsy came out, rented & took it back the same day. All these years later I still prefer Aero the Acrobat, Cool Spot, Earthworm Jim, Kid Chameleon, Sonic the Hedgehog 1 & 2, and ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron.
Love you’ve covered this thank you!
Haven’t played Bubsy since getting my N64 Christmas 1997 but boy did my brother and I play the heck out of this the 4 years prior! 2 player turn taking, we loved it. Try and survive going as fast as you can, when the otherwise useless enemy’s really come into their own, loved it! It’s not perfect, but it had enough unique about it to be a lot of fun and it was clearly made with love.
But for sure I have the bias of my nostalgic youth :) I completely understand older gamers at release (I was born 1984) not enjoying this one. Thanks as always for the awesome content SLX!
I'm... I'm gonna buuuubs...
*What can possibly go wrong?*
If I recall the Sega Power review of this game correctly, two things they mentioned were Bubsy's ability to just slam into enemies and die whereas Sonic could avoid most issues simply by using his spin attack (likely exacerbated by the reduced horizontal resolution), and that Bubsy just wasn't likeable as a character.
I was in high school when this came out, I remember renting it from Blockbuster and on my way back to return it, I almost got jump by Bloods, L.A. county in the 90s was pretty grimmy. It wasn't even worth the hassle but it wasn't as terrible as people make it out to be
I had Bubsy for the Jaguar and I remember it being pretty decent. Not Mario or Sonic good but I had fun
I´ve enjoyed Bubsy quiet a lot.
I still hope that one day, some developers and publishers will bring back 2D or 2.5D plattformers back except for Nintendo.
I still would like to see a 2D Banjo Kazooie.
Played this on Sega Channel, not as much as I would've liked to in retrospect but still enjoyed it. Seeing the part at 4:38 is something I forgot about but immediately remembered due to the sound. The game had a more cartoonish feel to it than something like sonic despite they're both cartoons, suppose the music plays a role in that.
Growing up, my older brother's friend praised this game, so I was primed to like it before ever playing it. Bubsy was one that I would rent more than a few times, mostly because there wasn't anything else that really interested me. Like you say, SLX, it's not terrible. In fact, of all the games trying to strike gold with a new mascot, this is one of the better ones. Still, I found it to be pretty tough and, to this day, have never beaten it. I'm surprised you didn't harp on the slippery controls and cheap deaths more. For a game that offers Sonic-like speed, it almost never feels safe to go that fast considering you're bound to run, slide, or glide face first into some enemy.
I asked my parents for Bubsy on my 15th birthday because of all of the magazine coverage and glowing reviews. Within about 10 minutes of playing the game i knew i had been duped. Average at best, what could possibly go wrong? The whole game, what a waste of a present.
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It got game of the month in EGM back in the day. Even cover of the magazine. I was hyped too.
I just rented it. Was a pretty okay, but nothing great. Basically it made for a good rental. Play through once, never again.
I had this game when I was a kid. It was okay. He had a lot of personality for a side scrolling 16 bit character.
Honestly, I've always had a soft spot for the first Bubsy. Yes, it's easy to run into some cheap deaths but overall you can get into a flow with it
Really glad you aren't just copying other TH-camrs' points in this review like I've unfortunately seen happen many times now.
Side note - so many people say Bubsy is a Sonic rip-off when he's clearly inspired off Bugs Bunny.
he's a bit of both honestly, leaning into the Cartoon style aspect enough that he doesnt get a lawsuit, including having a sweater on to avoid Sonic Copycat allegations.
He's just a pastiche of famous cartoon characters.
@@matthewhall6288 way to pull out the thesaurus with that one. "Pastiche"
@@UltimateGamerCC Ech, he's still closer to Bugs.
It was well publicised back in the day don't know if it was ever truly popular. One thing is for sure this game was infuriating and I never put much effort into it because of that.
Bubsy was a solid C- in my opinion. The control was awful.
Yeah, the control in conjunction with the too-zoomed-in game area is a recipe for a frustrating experience, at least for me.
What could possibly go wrong? I loved Bubsy when I had it on the Mega Drive, never managed to complete it tohugh as I found it got quite tough later on...
Nice to see a more generous review that doesnt just jump on the hate bandwagon for the lulz.
I agree re: visuals and audio. There is at least a little charm to certain elements. Im also a little biased in its favour since as a kid there was a game show on tv after after school on weekdays and they would often feature it as a challenge for the kids alongside the likes of Super Mario Allstars, Plok!, Super Mario Kart and other games. That may seem like no big deal in this day and age, but thats kind of a big deal back in the 90’s.
That said the difficulty is cheap. Its the sort of game that would benefit from tweaks (hitpoints, widescreen and zoomed out more, some changes to enemy behaviour). In fact i never really thought about the lack of threat of enemies given the one hit difficulty, but its actually a good point. Though reallythere are at peast a lot of earlier platformers that at most had enemies walking left or right or throwing etc.
No idea about Anglo magazine hype but in my German magazine, it got the equivalent to a C for the SNES version. How the game could be hyped so much is a mystery to me, at least if you don't allow for malicious explanations
One gets the distinct impression that Accolade spent big with the press to get the coverage they did. It was hyped to the skies, I eagerly rented the SNES version and was left underwhelmed by the gameplay.
My sister liked this game. Then donkey Kong country came out. Bubby's was never spoken of again
I'm surprised that he didn’t talk more about Bubsy's momentum. His directional momentum is OVERBEARING and makes jumping far more difficult than it should be -- if you're moving with any speed, his jump maintains that speed with some kind of invisible force PUSHING him that way.
This was actually a common issue with western develoed plattformers.
They shower you in coins and collectables to the point it got exhausting.
Games like Mario and Sonic made you earn coins and rings so it felt good to get them.
You know Sonic 2 was mixed American and Japanese team but Japanese lead
I'm obviously a bad gamer, because I died in bubsy ALOT(Kirby too, but at least on the bosses). I liked the graphics, music, and that it has voice samples, but I assumed it was as bad as people said because of the blind jumps, floaty controls(I played on both snes &sega, but this game gave me the impression that all genesis games were floaty), and ridiculous ways to die in one hit. I didnt even notice that it was also pretty boring because the on screen enemies don't do anything. I've never even thought of it as a sonic clone, but that makes perfect sense. I usually ignored the mascot platformers of the day, and have never owned bubsy.
Hope you do the rest of the series.
Those reviewers were paid off
Doubtful.
I remember renting this back in the day and being really impressed by the graphics, but I never got further than a few stages because I kept dying from random enemies/traps popping up outta nowhere. I owned the sequel and beat that one plenty of times though.
When I was a kid I was so dumb I could not for the life of me figure out how to beat a single stage in this game, I didn't have a manual so I was just trying to wing it but after hours and trying different levels I remember getting to a point where I just dropped it and picked up beyond Oasis immediately
I think I beat the first level by accident a handful of times. With A LOT of deaths. 😂 Beyond Oasis is an amazing game. Wish I'd played it before Bubsy and spent all that time I played bubsy on BO instead!
It's pretty funny that Europeans loved Bubsy, but then again, many of them also thought that Dizzy was an incredible franchise.
I never owned Bubsy, but a few friends and family members did, and I remember renting it for myself on the SNES once or twice. It was basically something you'd play if you wanted something Sonic-like without the constant cheap deaths or the stress of the underwater levels. It was a bit on the easy side but was fine for those times when you just wanted to play something to relax for an hour or two and be confident that you could beat it in one sitting.
I think the reviews of the time were so glowing because back then, a lot of reviewers were a bit entranced by things like crisp graphics and digitized speech, which were some of the best things about Bubsy. There were a ton of different death animations for Bubsy himself as well, which sometimes made you want to waste a life just to see what would happen. That probably had a lot to do with why most of the enemies were just statues, as well, since a game can only have so much animation to go around, but as kids we didn't really notice or care. So I think these things probably bumped up those review scores a bit.
I think the Bubsy hate didn't start until Bubsy 2, and then Bubsy 3D solidified it. While the first game was well received, even at the time a few magazines pointed out how over-hyped the game was even before its release - the publisher even reportedly sent one magazine a Bubsy-shaped Birthday cake to celebrate the game's release! While the first game did fine, the sequel came out way too soon and was apparently way too much like the first game (I've still only played the first game), and the reviews for Bubsy 2 were a lot more critical, with most of them noting that one could just as well skip it and play the first game again. Then Bubsy 3D came out and was notoriously one of the worst games ever made, which sent the franchise into hibernation. That point was where the sentiment of "The entire Bubsy franchise is trash" started.
I can't speak to anything past the first game, but I maintain that it was "perfectly fine" if nothing great. It's easy to see where things went off the rails, however. If they'd taken their time and crafted a sequel that fixed the flaws of the first instead of rushing a cash grab out the door, Bubsy probably wouldn't be as revered as Sonic but may have ended up at the level of Spyro or Crash Bandicoot.
Good lord the controls in this are diabolical. There’s just something off about them that makes playing the game feel like you’re walking on eggshells. You go from 0 to 100mph in seconds which means you can very easily get hit by something from off screen that you couldn’t see coming. If you bounce on an enemy you can’t move yourself in the air, the game forces Bubsy to move forward like there’s a wall blocking him which can lead to more cheap deaths. Everything is so floaty and weightless. I’ve never played a game before that has controls that are somehow both too sniff and ridged and too floaty and slippery. The game wants you to take it slow, check for enemies around you and do precision platforming but you go so fast and you’re so out of control that’s not even possible half the time
I wonder myself why even Bubsy came back to the modern consols. In my eyes it was just a franchise, that wanted a piece of Sonics success. But other franchises like Aero, especially Sparkster, and even Dynamite Headdy did it far better in my opinion. If there is anything I like about Bubsy at all, than it is the pilot episode of a never came to be cartoon show. I found it a few years ago on TH-cam,
Bubsy is what you play to completion while drunk on mute because the music is so bad it would make me sober
Music on the SNES version is so much better. Hearing the Sega tunes for this makes me wanna fill my ears with cement.
Bubsy to me wasn't bad my only problem was the cheap out of nowhere deaths and the controls being really weird.
Bubsy and Zool are both too slippery/fast for me. Kid Chameleon is right on the edge where the control could be better but it's not so bad it isn't manageable imo
Zool is better in my opinion than Bubsy, at least with Zool there's an invincible cheat and the music is decent FM Mega Drive quality.
I feel like if Bubsy had a bit more development time and less of a cash grab it would have been way better
Ive always loved Bubsy. I acknowledge it's brutal difficulty but i think he was totally 90's with his goofiness and his one liners.
Honestly, while Bubsy was busy ripping off Sonic, it should have used the rings system with the yarnballs, especially with how fast the character can move and how prevalent they are in the stages. May as well have stolen the roll while they were at it so Bubsy could be on the offense while going fast at the same time.
Dying with one hit was enough to keep me from playing it much back in the day.
That's one thing I never understood, how the heck did this game got new titles on modern platform in 2017 and 2019
Because Bubsy was being a meme. It's sad that the devs didn’t really consider to try to make an actually lasting impact until it was too late.
Bubsy is the Poochie of video game mascots.
I still remember the day I bought Bubsy (Sega Mega Drive version). The game itself is okay, but can be frustrating at times. Anyways, going back to what I was saying... Along with Bubsy, I also bought a 2-in-1 game cartridge. It was Fantastic Dizzy/Cosmic Spacehead. Sega Lord X, I hope you get to review those games one day. Unless you already did?
I remember playing some of this, and yeah, it isn't bad. But it's also definitely not good. It's the later, worse games that have turned Bubsy into the meme it is today.
Had this on the Super Nintendo. Felt like it was meant for very young players but was far too difficult. Very squirrelly controls and the levels never really meshed with the high speed movement. Control was the players' greatest threat.
I don't know how anyone can like Bubsy. It's like Sonic but there's no roll/spin move. One hit kills, falling damage, annoying voices. Good music on stage 1 and pretty nice graphics can't make up for everything else
I was about 8 or 9 years old when I first encountered _Bubsy_ on the SNES, and at the time, I had fun with it. It wasn't a game I wanted to own, but I did rent it several times. It didn't feel as polished as some other games I'd played, sure, but I never considered it a "bad" game. I guess younger me enjoyed the game where older gamers would've dismissed the game out-of-hand, and I think that's the point. This isn't a game that's meant to appeal to every gamer across the board like a Mario or a Sonic title. It's a platformer created and aimed squarely at kids around the 6-10 year old range.
This was actually a childhood favorite of my family's growing up as a little kid. One of the few video games my Mom liked to play. We'd have speedrun competitions to see who could beat the game first. It's by no means a masterpiece, but there's a certain goofy charm about it.
I enjoyed this game back back in the 90's. Its.not bad like many people say...
Caught you on the last episode of Shiro. Great content.
Nice review.
The deaths which occur when hitting the ground from a fast glide or simply a vertical drop are annoying. And the fact the yarn does not work like rings do in Sonic adds insult to injury. Sonic had set the precedent of letting players survive as long as they had a ring (in most cases.) So why did Bubsy go back to the one hit and your back to the check point? Shrug. Ya I own the game, but I don't play it anymore.
I first heard of this game through the swedish Nintendo-focused gaming magazine "Nintendo Magasinet" when they reviewed the SNES version. They went on about how finally a game that proves that Sonic speed was possible on the SNES so the Sega-fans can shut up. Then they went on to say that Bubsy was even better than Sonic. Looking back, this part is pretty crazy to me. I only had the text and some screen shots to go by and while the game looked pretty nice, I could absolutely tell it didn't look like a Sonic-killer. That's how I as a kid first relised that these magazines that only focuses on one console brand had pretty skewed opinions and should probably be taken with a fistful of salt or two.
I was 11 when this came out, only reason I played it was because I went to my moms friends house and her son had the game but on the SNES….wasn’t for me then and definitely not for me now
I still own the 2 Megadrive Bubsy games (even though I haven't played the sequel yet). The first game is ok but the stages just aren't made for speeding through.
In Sonic you can roll into a ball to smash through enemies, get stopped by rocks or walls before a platform section and have rings so you don't die in one hit.
Bubsy copied the speed part but didn't recognise these elements were also necessary.
I played this on the TV Show Gamesmaster. I wanted to play Street Fighter 2 and they made me play this game. I did get a lot of trim after the airing even though I lost so I can't hate that much ;)
Bubsy time with Sega Lord X and a comment from Game Sack can’t go wrong
Letting your child play this game should be a war crime
My best friend growing up had a HUGE extended family and for some reason they always went in together to buy my friend a few video games practically every holiday. So he had among many other games, all the bubsy games. Long story long, damn they all sucked!
I played Bubsy a lot on the SNES and to be hounest, I liked it.
I remember playing this back in the day, would usual keep flickering between colour and black and white for some odd reason.
I always knew Bubsy due to being the iconic example of how not to do a videogame character.
Bubsy kinda reminds me of Sonic 1. It's a super-fast platformer that punishes to for going super-fast.
Bubsy's internet reputation comes from Bubsy 3d. Most younger gamers I talk to don't even know Bubsy had 2d games in the 16-bit era. I had fun with this game
I've had this game since childhood (this is bubsy 2 actually) it's okay not as good as sonic but certainly not bad either
I liked Bubsy back then. It was one of the few games my sisters would actually play with me.
I will say they definitely made a lot of game design faux pas.
I remember renting it back in the day I think for SNES? I thought it was fun enough but mildly frustrating in spots, and definitely did not hold a candle to the likes of Sonic 2! might have to think about tracking it down for the collection cause I'm definitely needing more SNES stuff.
The game was mostly hated on back in the day was from the Atari Jaguar version not looking next gen.Would be cool to see a vid with the best and worst Sonic clones
Bubsy changed me, this was the game that taught me about the cynical world of hype and marketting, I bought into the hype hook, line and sinker, and was more excited for this than I was for Sonic, but within minutes of firing up the cart, even my very forgiving young self absolutely loathed this game.
Saying this game 'never feels bad' is laughable, with heinous jumping physics that fight any attempt at precision by locking your momentum, choppy animations, questionable hitboxes, cheap deaths, grating music and sloppy, insipid level design with speed you can't really enjoy because you end up pushed too close to the side of the screen to react properly to hazards, I cannot think of a platformer from this era that wasn't a bootleg or edutainment that felt this shoddy. It was a vapid product that deserves its reputation as an industry punching bag.
Hey man, what do you think about sega's power surge? Definitely looking forward to an update video of yours on this
I never really cared about this game, the Sega Mega Drive had much better games to offer in late 1992 and early 1993. And the ad campaign for this title was so crazy! Almost sickness, you could see bubsy on every media, everywhere!!
I remember enjoying this when I rented it.
I remember Bubsy.
I have never played Bubsy, but from looking at this review the music sounds like it gets grating the longer you play, and the controls look SO slippery. Like you slide so much or move more than you'd expected with even a light tap of the D-pad, that precision platforming becomes way harder than it should be. On top of that having dull enemy design and so much to collect for seemingly no reason but scorechasing... I can see why SLX isn't very impressed. It feels like a game that concentrates on having "more" (more speed! Voice sample tech! Lots of enemies and lots of collectables), but doesn't really put the effort in using all that stuff WELL. So it's a game that feels very meaty and overwhelming, but once you actually sink your teeth into it there's not that much actual FLAVOR.
Granted, still wanna try it one day just so I know what it's actually like to play, but this video isn't exactly painting me a picture of a good time.
When I was a kid my babysitter had this game. I was probably around seven when I played it. Being a kid did not blind me to how bland the game was.
I find its sound design really annoying. Especially how the music changes when you do things like slide down the watery logs in the first stage.
I am nostalgic for a lot of things friends from my childhood, but Bubsy sure as hell ain't one of 'em 😂
Teens wouldn't like Bubsy at all, its target audience was probably 3 to 10 at best. They also opted to make it closer to cartoons with all those animations and music. It's a product of its time and it shows on magazines, instead of criticizing the lack of originality and unpolished level design and consequently, gameplay. Reviewers and kids welcomed a new mascot with open arms.
I think I'm one of the only people who actually really likes this game. The music is funky and the controls don't make me hate it either. I was so sad when I found out the Internet really doesn't like it 😅
I wish Bubsy was controlled better in this game. I like the idea of a cartoon cat.
I'm not going to lie I actually like the first two bubsy games actually!
I really like the personality the graphics of the first game and the music and it's kind of fun but that's just me.