God Has Truly Left Us and Bubsy is the Reason Why

Presenting the Bobcat’s worst adventure!

After 3 Bubsy game’s I finally have made it to the final one, the last Bubsy game before his weird return to the modern world. The last bad one as they say since from what I understand the next two are just boring at worst. I feel Bubsy 3D needs no introduction, this game lives in infamy as one of the worst video games of all time, and it made my eventual playthrough of it all the more foreboding. Well, that time is finally here and I can finally see if Bubsy 3D truly deserves the infamy he has. The answer is of course yes, it’s Bubsy. Do you expect him to learn at this point?

The Woolies are back and they wanna kill Bubsy which means you gotta go back and fight them who CARES it’s the same Bubsy plots as the others there’s nothing to talk about here.Now graphically, this game is a mess. Everything looks so bland, so generic, the devs really just put a bunch of random platforms around everywhere and called it level design, it’s horrible! It feels less like a game and more like a failed unity project with how much everything looks cobbled together it really leaves a bad taste in your mouth! The goal of every level is simple, having you try and get to the end, collecting whatever you can along the way and maybe go for the two rocket parts each level has in order to get the good ending, that’s about it. Levels fall into the same problem Bubsy 2 has where the stages are too big and maze-like to navigate properly. They even bring the arrows back here, but they do just as bad a job as the last game, especially with how much more open this game is, just giant plains of nothing with only a few grey platforms scattered around to trick you into thinking this game has actual level design in it. In terms of controls, this game feels rancid. Bubsy is controlled via tank controls here, and while I’m a pretty big fan of tank controls, Bubsy 3D does not feel designed with them in mind at all, he feels way too heavy to properly steer and enemy bullets are a pain to dodge due to the sluggish turning and jump, it never feels fair whenever you get hit in this game. Speaking of the jump, that somehow gets messed up here, since each time you jump the camera decides to suddenly shift down to the GROUND. I get the attention is to help see what’s below you, but in practice it’s disorienting as hell and took me off guard every single time it happened, I never got used to it, and the fact the game expects me to jump on enemies with it made me just run past most foes in my way. There technically is another way to attack, with you being able to throw the atoms you find, this game's coins, at foes, but it’s way too finicky and slow to rely on it, and I just collected them for the bonus round instead.

In a lot of ways, I can’t really blame Bubsy 3D for the way it is. The development of this game was awful, it was a bunch of developers not experienced with 3D technology at all being forced to work with it and try and make something good out of it. They also just had nothing good to reference, Mario 64 wasn't out and 3D platformers were in that weird spot of doing whatever till something clicked. Funny enough, Mario 64 was actually revealed during the development of this game, and I can only imagine the pain on the dev’s faces when that happened. Still though, this doesn't change the fact that this was an utterly miserable game to experience, and I just wanted it to end the second I started it. Little fun fact by the way, the first time I booted this up the controls combined with the horrid graphics gave me such a massive headache that I ended up puking pretty soon after starting it, this game actually harmed me! I would say this is just as bad as the other ones truthfully, but I think this takes the cake as the worst purely due to how much longer it takes to beat it, at least the other ones were short! I;m happy to finally get the worst out of the way, and I’m hoping that I find some enjoyment in the last two Bubsy games, because if they end up being just as bad as this, I’m never going to be able to find peace and happiness again.