I forgot about the limbless hero for a bit, as you tend to forget about everything five minutes after you’re done with it when you’re young.

And it looked so gorgeous compared to the bleak, grim environments of the shooters I was more into, that it brought me back to the first time I played Donkey Kong Country on my SNES and just made young-me happy to sit there and play it for hours. We’ve all played as a character who can fly, but how many protagonists can boast six separate flying body parts, all of which somehow stay together to roughly form a human shape? You don’t have to say it – I’m making some pretty good points here.Īt the time, I was primarily obsessed with games like Duke Nukem, DOOM, Quake, and other 3D first-person shooters, as well as the SNES and the plethora of platformers you’d find on there.Įven looking back now, the level of detail poured into every frame of that game oozed the love that was put into it by Ubisoft at the time.Įverything had an animation. I always admired how the front cover told you absolutely nothing about the game, at a time when the box cover was literally all you had to sell a game.

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