2/28/2024 0 Comments Marsupilami ps4 reviewTheir prehensile tails are certainly their greatest tool, these limber little lemur-like creatures able to interact with the environment in a few ways beyond their natural jumping ability. To stop the skeleton once and for all though will involve the three Marsupilamis venturing from their home to areas filled with hypnotized animals, all the while working their way to the Mesoamerican inspired kingdom the skeleton has made for himself on the final island. You don’t see him too often and the boss levels he hosts are often more of a chase than a true confrontation, but his appearances are still fun because he manages to be a bit of a character despite the deliberate avoidance of dialogue. While not a single word is spoken, the body language and reactive expressions of the skeleton shows him to be a villain who delights in his silly villainy. The Marsupilamis seem unaffected though and immediately take off to stop him and free the other fauna, but while the three playable creatures are functionally identical in skills and only really show small personality differences in how they react to beating a level, the main villain is actually a rather fun character. Doing so ends up unleashing the sleeping spectral skeleton within, this ancient evil immediately setting off to hypnotize Palombia’s animal inhabitants to serve him. Sleeping soundly on the beaches of a country called Palombia, a washed up sarcophagus catches the eye of one of the little creatures who can’t help but prod it out of curiosity. Punch, Hope, and Twister are three young animals of a fictional South American species known as Marsupilamis, their defining traits being leopard print fur with some variation in the colors and a prehensile tail many times the length of their own bodies that they can freely move to make all sorts of shapes. The cartoon stars a trio of creatures similar to the ones that star as the three playable protagonists in this game, the only really differences being their names. While the Sega Genesis Marsupilami game was seemingly more based on the Disney cartoon than the original Belgian comics, this game instead seems to almost be inspired by a still unreleased CGI cartoon revival of the brand. Marsupilami: Hoobadventure is a fast-paced action platformer with no ponderous elephants you need to guide to the end of a level in sight, and while it gets there by cribbing a fair bit of ideas from games like Donkey Kong Country Returns, that certainly isn’t a bad starting point for making an exciting animal action game. I’ve mentioned in the past how disappointed I was as a kid to learn the Sega Genesis game Marsupilami was not the energetic cartoon adventure it looked like but a slow puzzle platformer, but over 25 years after that game’s release, it seems the game I expected to exist has finally come to be.
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