One problem here is that damage detection is awful and even when standing next to nasty, you can manage to miss them completely and lose a life as result.
Sound effects are no better, with very little on offer and in game music consisting of repeating riffs, which grow tiresome quickly.Īs with every other platforming game at the moment, you are required to take Kao around levels, making him jump over bad guys with the A button or punching them out with the B button. Voice acting has never been a high point in video games however, a kangaroo without an Australian accent does show a lack of effort, and all the other characters sound quiet and embarrassed. Effects are also on the short side, and the underwater levels look bland and muted due to some pretty bad blur and blue haze implementation. The animations are pleasing, Kao bounces along innocently with his tail wagging along behind him, and dwarves run at you with hammers raised, however, with so little to animate it is hard to be impressed. However, the main problem is the lack of variation between enemies and the miniscule level design. In the graphics department Kao actually does not look too bad colourful and non-offensive, it does its job. This lack of imagination is a fair representation of Round 2. So Kao must now go about colourful locales and collect coins, with which he can bribe the sailor. Not so, as the only thing standing between Kao and his mates is a gate and a drunken sailor who will only open up if you bribe him 3000 ducats.
Usually you would think this would mean venturing all over colourful locales and freeing cutesy animals. Kao begins Round 2 locked up in the Hunter's ship, and after being saved by a parrot, it is revealed Kao must now save all the other animals that The Hunter has locked up in cages. Kao's exploits unfortunately only seek to fill in the gaps.
And while Mario 128 plays a game of console hopping, sub-par platforming games such as Spyro and Crash fill the platforming void. While Playstation 2 gamers enjoy Ratchet & Clank and Jak & Daxter, and Xbox gamers to a lesser extent have Blinx, our main man Mario is our only platformer of quality lately. The platform genre has become rather stagnant over the years, particularly on the GameCube.
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