Cool World
Not Cool WorldGenre: adventure - platform
Publisher: Ocean
Year: 1992
System: SNES
Gameplay Score: 0
Gameplay Notes:
Unresponsive controls. Incredible lag and long animations. No control over your jumps. Seemingly everything one-hit kills you. And it's impossible to tell what will do it. For example there is a yellow guy and a purple something both pacing back and forth in the same part of the sidewalk. The purple guy walks right thru you like you aren't there but the yellow guy stops you and then kills you if you don't give him money. This sort of random interaction with half of the critters and objects bounding around is a common occurrence. It's literally hit or miss. Hitting enemies is nigh impossible and even when you do they take multiple hits but have no hitbox so they just move right through your attack. The HUD is intelligible. There's no health meter yet you can die after taking some number of hits. Uhh, wut?
Level Design Score: 1
Level Design Notes:
Baffling. I'm not sure what else to say. There's a city street with some buildings you can platform on to collect some brown stuff that I guess is the game's currency. You can pick up a boxing glove so you can attack and couple items that can be traded but I'm not sure what they're actually used for. The few buildings can be entered but there's nothing in them. What am I supposed to do here? Is there an objective? A purpose? Something to do? This is like Home Alone without any idea of what to do.
Theme Score: 0
Theme Notes:
It's a licensed title for a movie that bombed, so that should be enough. It appears to star Gabriel Byrne and Jessica Rabbit in a white dress and is set in Tim Burton's fever dream. This has to be the most bizarre setting I've seen in a game.
Art Style Score: 2
Art Style Notes:
Ok it's not a total train wreck in terms of the artwork. It's hideous, don't get me wrong, but it is well drawn and decently animated.
Audio Score: 3
Audio Notes:
Music isn't horrible. It's not good, mind you, as it has a strange quality to it. It's like a failed attempt to replicate a Donkey Long Country composition. Actually, the more I listen to it the more I like it. The sounds are your typical THQ licensed garbage of generic cartoony bops and bounces.
Overall Score: 15
Review ID: 122
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