[BurritoBeans]

So if you haven't heard about it, a new Bubsy game came out a few days back - Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back. For people like me who go on and on about old games this is news - Bubsy is a joke in the "retro gaming" crowd - but to everyone who doesn't care it's something new...

So how is it? Well, here's an excerpt from a review by IGN:

Out of all the various platformer mascots that could have been picked for a modern revival, Bubsy couldn't have been high on most people's lists. After all, the 1993 original was mostly notorious for bizarre, meandering level design, and a multitude of cheap deaths. But somewhere, somehow, someone thought bringing back Bubsy in an all-new sidescrolling platformer was a good idea. Oh, how wrong they were.

The aggressively mediocre Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back follows everyone’s least favorite loud-mouthed bobcat on a bog-standard side-scrolling, platform-hopping quest to protect Earth’s yarn from alien invaders. He’s armed with his old slow-falling glide move from previous games, but also a few new tricks: he can scale certain walls with his claws and execute a pounce to destroy barriers and attack enemies. That’s fairly useful… when it actually works, which is roughly half of the time. The other half it actually jumps over what you’re trying to hit, and sometimes into something that’ll kill you.

Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back is an extremely short and completely forgettable platformer based on nothing but irony and nostalgic notoriety. I’d honestly rather replay the original Bubsy than this - for all of its serious flaws, at least that game was memorable. The Woolies Strike Back isn’t even that.

Read the full article here: http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/11/03/b...ack-review

4.5/10 from IGN - that's honestly generous in my opinion. We got this one at work, one of my coworkers is a huge Bubsy fan (nobody knows how or why but he is) and after beating it in all of an hour and a half he let us try...

So what did I think? Well, I thought it was a solid 2/10 - short, bad gameplay, ugly graphics, nothing to keep you interested, cut-and-paste bosses, and just all around lazy level design.

If you don't know the old Bubsy games, well they were a series of games birthed during the "mascots with attitude" era that Sega brought onto the world in the 90s. It revolves around a bobcat, Bubsy, who has to collect yarn and save Earth from creatures or go through old fairy tales depending on which game you had. The original three were 2D platformers - two for the SNES/Genesis (with the SNES one being generally better) and one for the PS1 in 3D. The 2D platformers were well-received at the time getting favorable reviews (Averaging around 7.5/10 from critics in most cases) while 3D had an appropriate 5-6/10 average as while it did come before Super Mario 64 and was sort-of innovative, it was an ugly mess featuring one of the most annoying characters in gaming history.

In retrospect the games got at best a 4/10 from most people as they're clearly Sonic ripoffs that include dumb features like fall damage, deathtraps due to going too fast in a game about speed, and physics that are designed to play against you. As I mentioned they're jokes of sorts - they're generally very cheap cartridges that you can find in the same quantity as Shaq-Fu carts and the Angry Video Game Nerd mentions which, while short, introduced the games to most people nowadays is just about the usual opinion that you'll hear from anyone who plays them now. If you have an emulator and nothing better to play or some old hardware laying around I would say give these a shot only if you have nothing better to do with your life.

So, does this one match the old ones to me? Yeah - 4.5/10 fits in, mind you in my opinion I'd say it's more on the ratings that Bubsy 3D gets in retrospect than the 2D platformers. If you've played it, what do you think and was it even remotely worth the $30 (or $19.79 if you got it on sale at Steam) that you spent to get it?

[Xits]

"In retrospect the games got at best a 4/10 from most people as they're clearly Sonic ripoffs that include dumb features like fall damage, deathtraps due to going too fast in a game about speed, and physics that are designed to play against you. As I mentioned they're jokes of sorts - they're generally very cheap cartridges that you can find in the same quantity as Shaq-Fu carts and the Angry Video Game Nerd mentions which, while short, introduced the games to most people nowadays is just about the usual opinion that you'll hear from anyone who plays them now. If you have an emulator and nothing better to play or some old hardware laying around I would say give these a shot only if you have nothing better to do with your life.
" i dont get this

[themakokid]

I saw this on target.com under preorders and thought the same thing. My guess is that someone somewhere thought there was nostalgia attached to it. This is what I am imagining: "Hey, I remember this Bubsy thing from when I was a kid. Let's revive it and all these 30 somethings will get it for their kids."

[Ecks]

I loved the originals and played the living hell out of them, people tend to forget not all the old games were easy, you actually had to develop some skills in order to survive. Just look at at games like Zombies ate my neighbors, now there is a game I would love to see brought back.

[BurritoBeans]

Just look at at games like Zombies ate my neighbors, now there is a game I would love to see brought back.

I'd buy that if it was released by a semi-decent company or Konami put some thought into a title - that was my go-to co-op SNES game, still is occasionally when people pop over... issue with modern remakes is that as this new Bubsy is showing (and like some others recently)that they're just taking it for a nostalgia factor over anything,