Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back

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Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back underwhelms and disappoints at every turn. Bland level design never improves, and tedious boss battles are unrewarding and unsatisfying. Bubsy's return 21 years later could have reminded us why he was once considered a potential peer to the likes of Mario and Sonic. Instead, The Woolies Strike Back only serves to remind us why the mascot hasn't seen a new adventure in over two decades.

By GameInformer on
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Ahh, Bubsy… Gamers everywhere either hate him or really hate him. In the early '90s he was considered a rip off of Sonic The Hedgehog and countless other rodents that littered the mascot scene at the time. Bubsy was the bottom of the barrel (even below...

By Gaming Age on
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Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back is an extremely short and completely forgettable platformer based on nothing but irony and nostalgic notoriety. I'd honestly rather replay the original Bubsy than this - for all of its serious flaws, at least that game was...

By ign.com on
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Went wrong somewhere along the line. The original idea might have promise, but in practice it has failed. Threatens to be interesting sometimes, but rarely. How we score:  The destructoid reviews...

By Destructoid on

Ein kurzes, mittelmäßiges, oft unfaires Jump'n'Run, dessen Existenzgrundlage der 20 Jahre alte Hype zu einem noch schlechteren Spiel...

International Review By eurogamer.de on

Bubsy and his platforming ilk remind me in a strange, tangled way of high-frequency trading. This is the dodgy Wall Street manoeuvre, as detailed in Michael Lewis' Flash Boys, in which money men exploit their speedy internet connections and clever...

By eurogamer.net on