WARNING: This review comes from a Bubsy fan, most people don’t like the games so don’t believe in everything i say. Bubsy in the Purrfect Collection…It’s a collection of ALL the bubsy games for modemr platforms and oh boy i always wanted this! Developed by Limited Run Games using their own Carbon Engine and published by Atari since they own all of Accolade’s assets they did a really good job. We have 4 main games here, interviews with some of the creators, music soundtracks, manuals, promotional art, and many more behidn the scenes videos and other goodies, but now onto the games. Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, pretty much the best one, both the Super Nintendo and SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive versions are included, this is a 2D platformer that really isn’t as bad as people say, i think it’s actually good! The game has very nice, colorful graphivs, the music is pretty catchy, in both versions, the level design is…questionable but you can live with it, and controlling bubsy is okay not bad but not great. The game is also very obviously inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog since Bubsy gains speed very quickly, with the only exception is that Bubsy is conpletely linear while Sonic is not. It’s also worth to mention that Bubsy is a one-hit game, sure you have way more lives starting with 9 but it can be really frustrating sometimes, there are also 5 worlds each with 3 levels and their own gimmick, bringing us to a total of 16 levels (if you go by what the box is saying). Next up is Bubsy…II/2 with three versions this time! Super Nintendo, SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive and the Nintendo Game Boy but for now we’ll talk about the home console versions. Busby II is an…interesting title in the franchise, and it completely changes the Bubsy formula, the game is not linear now with fully expanded levels that are now…poorly designed. The game also splits up to the west wing and the east wing with both having 3 floors, eith 1 floor having 5 levels or 6 if you include the boss. Every time on a floor you’re met with select level themes, Egypt which is a very closed down, traditional platformer with a lot of mechanisms, Space with low gravity and rocket segments and also more open, Music land like Band Land from Rayman but…before Rayman, even more open and colorful, we got the plane levels with really bod control and super poorly designed levels where you’ll go around in circles forever until after 15 minutes you suddenly find the exit meanwhile everything can kill you, and then a royal level with a kingdom, these are super short and very not memorable so ehhh, and then there’s the boss battle with the big metal pig that reveals the true villain of the game, you beat him and…oh yeah you beat the game already now…huh, yup on all 6 floors the ending is the same. But now let’d talk about the changes in Bubsy II hub? We have a hit point system 3 hits you die and you find bandages to heal up, more shaky movement and Bubsy just feels worse to control, music aggressively switches in the levels and it’s distracting, and really poor level design…but it’s fine at the end of the day. We also have 2 horrible mini-games that are pre-programmed into doors so you can’t skip them, one is one where for a minute and half you need to launch frogs very slowly inti targets…yup with really bad aiming controls, and the other one is with the armadillo where you need to get marbles while controlling fans that move him around the pipes, if you fail the armadillo falls out, gets ran over and dies-…Welp that’s Bubsy II it’s playable i like it…but damn it can **** ASS. But i did’t forget about the Game Boy version…It has 9 levels, 12 including bosses, horrible plane levels, Egypt if you can even call it that with the horrible graphics, the game runs at like 15 fps, and everything is so zoomed in you don’t where you’re going especially in the BandLand levels even the collection tells you to skip this one!…And they should trll you to skip even the next one… Bubsy In: Fractured Furry Tales which was an exclusive for the Atari Jaguar, published by Atari themselves and developed by Imagitec Design and not Accolade huh, this game is horrible, graphics ****, the levels are so big and one of the wordt designed games ever that you need a map to know where to go especially with all the barriers they added it’s HORRIBLE. And no the soundtrack isn’t good. I hate this one. Next up…Oh yeah Bubsy 3D! It’s really not that bad guys…Sure the graphics might be non-existent, the levels are poorly designed, so much undair moments, horrible tank controls, and super annoying sound effects (SFX) the game is fine, i prefer it than Bubsy II honestly. And you also get Bubsy 3D: Refurbished Edition with updated controls which is really nice and i recommend it playing this way. Now this is it you also have your modern thingies like save states and rewinds, there’s cool exclusive music, art, a japanese version of Bubsy 1 from the Super Nintendo really sweet and yeah 10/10!

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]