Legend of Toki: Going Ape Spit/Juju Densetsu (1991)
Graphics-7 Sound-6.5 Control-7 Challenge-8
Level Design-6.5 Frustration-8.5 Fun-6.5 Originality-6.5
Overall Score-6.5
+ Difficulty options (Hard mode adds many enemies and some later enemy types to earlier levels), some interesting bosses, decent animation, jump/speed shoes, cart ride segment, different level design from other versions, mostly satisfying sfx, a few shortcuts and hidden items, fairly expressive sprites
+/- No auto-fire or rate of fire upgrade, fairly easy to rack up extra lives, time limit on the shoes and on weapons, one hit kills,
- Slow default walking speed, trial & error (leaps of faith, boss patterns, sometimes cheap enemy or trap placement, the cart ride segment), slow walking speed, odd jump mechanics (very vertical like in Contra, can’t adjust jump height (not even with the shoes)), only 3 music themes in-game, drab and mostly dark colours, lacks some details seen in other versions, not quite as varied as other versions, no weapon inventory, some dead space, some removed 1-ups plus harder paths to where they were on Hard (makes it pointless to even move towards them), some slow parts with moving platforms or multiple spiked pillars in a row, sometimes uneven difficulty curve (some later segments and bosses are pretty easy)
Level Design-6.5 Frustration-8.5 Fun-6.5 Originality-6.5
Overall Score-6.5
+ Difficulty options (Hard mode adds many enemies and some later enemy types to earlier levels), some interesting bosses, decent animation, jump/speed shoes, cart ride segment, different level design from other versions, mostly satisfying sfx, a few shortcuts and hidden items, fairly expressive sprites
+/- No auto-fire or rate of fire upgrade, fairly easy to rack up extra lives, time limit on the shoes and on weapons, one hit kills,
- Slow default walking speed, trial & error (leaps of faith, boss patterns, sometimes cheap enemy or trap placement, the cart ride segment), slow walking speed, odd jump mechanics (very vertical like in Contra, can’t adjust jump height (not even with the shoes)), only 3 music themes in-game, drab and mostly dark colours, lacks some details seen in other versions, not quite as varied as other versions, no weapon inventory, some dead space, some removed 1-ups plus harder paths to where they were on Hard (makes it pointless to even move towards them), some slow parts with moving platforms or multiple spiked pillars in a row, sometimes uneven difficulty curve (some later segments and bosses are pretty easy)
