Iâm not sure of anything, but I can make a pretty well-educated guess just based off of what weâre shown in the trailer that the devs of the original 2D Bubsy platformers didnât learn from their mistakes AT ALL and have, in fact, brought some brand new problems to the table.
The camera pacing is unusually sluggish and unresponsive, the humor still seems groanworthy and I get the feeling our titular bobcat will be even MORE annoying with the advent of being able to put voice lines right in there with no compression, the flight looks...not fun, slow and with none of the actual fun parts of flying, the âcollectionâ stuff doesnât seem to have a real point (who even makes âcollect items for more pointsâ in their games anymore??? unless its feeding a life system or giving you a tangible completionist bonus who cares), and the vfx and backgrounds look like they donât fit in AT ALL. The original Bubsy games were a mess, but at least they were sort of visually cohesive- this just looks like Mario In Unreal Engine, nothing fits, the realistic backgrounds DO NOT WORK with the cartoony character designs. On top of that, the environments look forced and immersion-breaking, they LOOK like they belong in a game, they donât feel like just...environments. Iâm not saying they have to be PERFECT, but it feels way too artificial- way better examples of what Bubsy is trying to do here can be found in basically any modern platformer, like Kirby, Mario, or Sonic. And yeah, I KNOW Iâm comparing a 3rd party game to well-established triple-A franchises, but Bubsy was a rip-off of these from the START, it was Accoladeâs ATTEMPT at making a Mario or Sonic, and if youâre going to rip someone off, you might as well do it right.
Listen, Iâm not gonna say âUGH THIS IS THE WORST GAME OF THE YEAR ALREADY DONâT BUY ITâ, but this trailer is NOT giving me high hopes. You would think that with 20-ish years of practice and technological improvement you might be able to come up with something that at least LOOKS fun (or at least give us some new soundtrack, come on guys the original music has aged like milk), but this has left me only with feelings of dread. This game is probably going to be mediocre at best, but Iâm no psychic, just a beginner game dev.
What I WILL give it though is that those new boss-lookinâ enemies have some pretty neat designs, so good job on that, I guess.