Super Dany for SNES PAL
Review #3928
Super Dany
The Lost "French Kid" Vikings
Gameplay
The Lost Vikings clone with imprecise and frustrating controls. Incredibly slow movement with a run button that has a long warm-up and cool down making it difficult to control. Three playable characters - a kid with a laser gun, a child who can crouch and crawl, and a girl who tumbles like a gymnast. Besides the laser kid, these abilities are terrible. The girl has the tallest jump, but her tumbling is a weird attack ability. Several collectibles are spread around the stage but most do nothing. The only useful items are keys which open doors. Awful hit detection destroys any fun you might have.
Level Design
It's hard not to directly compare this to the Lost Vikings because it's such a blatant clone. Stages have ill-defined objectives. There's a lot of collectibles but they don't seem to do anything so I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be collecting them. And they're usually in dead ends that don't need to be traveled down. Blocks and switches are easy to miss because they don't look interactive. Other interactive elements don't do anything like a crate that can be pushed but isn't needed to solve any puzzle. It's just a confusing mess right from the first stage.
Theme
Three early '90s French kids get pulled into a TV. I'm guessing this is a cartoon tie-in but I don't know the reference. Almost like a French, The Simpsons.
Art Style
Flat artwork and brown and gray colors. Extremely drab and ugly. Very poor animation and frame rate.
Audio
The music is middling but the sound effects drove me absolutely nuts. The jump sound is a giddy squeal noise. I muted it just for that.
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