Status Chovus Oct 30, 2019
Beat the game. I was initially unimpressed by the silly Earthworm Jim style graphics but once I actually started playing I was very impressed. I liked the controls and mechanics though it would have been nice if you could break out of the somersault to shoot. The boomerang style of shooting your own limbs coupled with the penalties from not …
Beat the game. I was initially unimpressed by the silly Earthworm Jim style graphics but once I actually started playing I was very impressed. I liked the controls and mechanics though it would have been nice if you could break out of the somersault to shoot. The boomerang style of shooting your own limbs coupled with the penalties from not having legs were very interesting. There was one level where you lost the legs and had to fight hard enemies and platform without them; that sucked.
I had to check a walkthrough a couple times when I got stuck; once because I did not know you could ride one type of enemy (the game did not do anything to teach or encourage that) and the rest were my bad for forgetting or missing something simple. I really liked the dialog between levels and the unique graphics for many things; such as the first group of levels having a new flag for each. These were a great hook that made me want to keep playing to see what would come next. The entire game was good with introducing new mechanics and content as it went on and the large variety of special forms were fun to use. Except the tank though. It was NOT like a Halo tank; it had bad range, was slow and bad at jumping and still took contact damage from enemies. I honestly felt at a disadvantage compared to the normal form.
Overall a great game that is almost up there with Super Mario World. It needs saving, revisiting levels or new game+ with option to use any special form and 2 players in order to be truly up there.
