【Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind】Squiggy's SNES First Level Quest (All Games Level One)
7Today's episode is Bubsy: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind. Yikes.
Despite the terrible pun we are greeted with and the many flaws that plague this game, I always liked it when I was growing up. It's hard to play in a fun way, but it's creative and bright and interesting enough to keep me wanting to see more.
The main problem with the design is the developers giving your character Sonic-like agility and the level designers not planning for that in any real way. What's the point of being able to run a thousand miles an hour if you have to stop every fifteen feet because there's enemies in the way?
What Bubsy really needed was Sonic's Spinball, where you could press down while running really fast to be an invincible enemy-crushing hedgehog sphere. This let you go fast without having to worry about dying as soon as you touched anything. Bubsy also doesn't have a ring system, so taking a hit is super unforgiving and usually kills you outright. They just really messed this part of the game up.
Besides that flaw, the rest of the game is pretty sweet. The worlds are big and non-linear, there's lot of different stuff to do and secret to explore, and the graphics are colourful and interesting. That's the part that really sticks with me when I think back fondly on this game.
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Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, known as Bubsy for short, is a platform video game released by Accolade in the early 1990s. It is the first game in the Bubsy series of video games. The game's name is a play on words in reference to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with the game revolving around Bubsy defending the planet's supply of yarnballs from alien invaders. The game received a sequel, Bubsy 2, in 1994.
In the game, enemy aliens called "Woolies" intend to steal Earth's supply of yarnballs, and as Bubsy has the world's largest collection of yarnballs, he has the most at stake, and sets out to stop the Woolies and reclaim the yarnballs. The game plays as a 2D sidescrolling platformer. The player must maneuver Bubsy through the levels, jumping on enemy "Woolies", and collecting stray yarn balls (which earns an extra life if 500 are collected). The game consists of sixteen levels, and Bubsy starts off with nine lives. In general, the game's gameplay has been compared to the Sonic the Hedgehog games from the Sega Genesis era.
Designer Michael Berlyn had previously designed adventure video games, such as Altered Destiny and Search for the King prior his work on Bubsy. Eventually burning out on the genre, he came across the original Sonic the Hedgehog and ended up playing it 14 hours a day, for a whole week, in order to find inspiration to do his own take on it. Development of the game began in 1991. Earlier sketches show Bubsy wearing shoes which were omitted in the final design. The Genesis version, which was the first one being worked on, was to be released in late 1992 but Accolade's legal troubles with Sega caused the game to be delayed.
The game was developed and released concurrently for the Genesis and Super NES, with each version looking and sounding almost identical. Approximately two years later, the game was also ported to Windows 95, under the name Super Bubsy. It contained slightly upscaled graphics, and the Bubsy cartoon pilot that was never picked up for further episodes. The Super NES version was made part of Bubsy Two-Fur on Steam in December 2015.
The Super NES version is the only game in the Bubsy series to be released in Japan, under the title Yamaneko Bubsy no Daibōken. The Super Famicom version is virtually identical to its Super NES counterpart, except that Bubsy's voice was re-recorded in Japanese.
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Squiggy's SNES First Level Quest is a series where I attempt to beat the first level of every SNES game. Some will be chosen randomly, some chosen because I liked them when I was younger, and some chosen by viewer request. This isn't necessarily a review or first impression or anything - the only true goal is to first define "What is Level 1 in this game?" and then beat it.
You can find the series playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmx77jI3k0GERGUCJuvO5wM2ZNP5knNXE
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