Game:

Bubsy II (1994)

Duration: 11:38

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What could possibly go wrong? Well, it turns out quite a bit. Bubsy was positioned to be the next big gaming icon in the Fall of 2003, and for the most part, fell flat with audiences.

As someone who loved the first game, I decided to give Bubsy II a spin and it was plain to see that this was Accolade's attempt to create a Sonic the Hedgehog style speed-platform adventure. Unfortunately, despite looking pretty great, the gameplay was poor, and where Sonic rewards the player for going fast, Bubsy would have the player run into enemies and traps that they couldn't see, at lightning fast speeds.

Though the Bubsy series would see much, MUCH deeper lows (Bubsy is 3D in Furbitten Planet, anyone?), Bubsy II did very little to improve on its predecessor. Today, I break my Bubsy II cherry as I lose my Gaming Virginity to this relatively forgotten platformer.

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