Game:

Jurassic Park 2: The Chaos Continues (1994)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 59:54

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Here is my full playthrough of Jurassic Park 2 on Normal Difficulty done live on IGTV.

Follow me on instagram @CabinSNES_fever to join me live or via my reviews and uploads to witness me take down all the games currently in my SNES colleciton, following on from having already beaten all 234 licenced UK releases for the NES. I only use original carts, no cheats & no save states.

REVIEW:
-In honesty I never even knew JP had a sequel on the SNES. Despite the first games short comings, its always been a firm favourite of mine given our history. So to learn the sequel was also produced by Ocean... What could go wrong?

If the open world exploration and puzzle solving aspects, or the impressive (for it's time); 3D FPS style gameplay, is what attracted you to the first game, then prepare for disappointment since none of the above features here! JP2 is a ground up remake, spreading the action across 15 long, run&gun style stages. It still looks great & exploring still plays a part, with many stages requiring navigating maze like environments, but the emphasis leans far more on action than discovery.

Though granted the freedom to choose any of the 6 main stages to begin on, each is followed automatically by an 'emergency' stage, played in the same set order. These are confined to strict time limits which given all the dead ends, leave almost no chance of finishing for your initial playthroughs. Even with practice many stages come down to seconds! With only 4 lives & no more awarded, assume you'll be replaying the early missions a depressingly real amount of times, only to rack up further failed attempts at the final emergency ones!

Seeing as your ulitmate goal is to protect JP island, you're actually supposed to avoid killing dinosaurs by utilising a selection of non-lethal weapons. If you kill too many dinos you can actually game over, excluding the Raptors of course, I guess the only person who cares for those 'clever girls' died in the 1st movie!. Your lethal firepower is reserved for BioSyn; the militia force out to steal JP from you. The variety in both human and dino adversaries is diverse, most can be handled quite easily with practice, however both can also make short work of the unsuspecting player; especially the grey Raptors and the Flamethrower guys!

If you've the patience to stomach the relentless grind, you'll beat the game. However the pain is summed up perfectly in the final T-Rex fight, where only perfect use of your arsenal can win! It's a long way back for another try...trust me!

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