Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2 (MD, 1994)
Graphics-7.5 Sound-8 Control-8 Challenge-7
Level Design-6.5 Frustration-8 Fun-7 Originality-6
Overall Score-7
+ Hidden items (get gold Sparkster, better attack power), some good bosses, Axel Gear returns, better jet pack controls, difficulty options, some fast segments, mini-bosses
+/- Playable intro (seems out of place and you can miss one of the hidden items if you don’t play it), one armed bandit bonus from collecting jewels (can be a bomb)
- Labyrinthine level designs (clash with Sparkster’s abilities), some tedious bosses (Genie, the yellow robots), slower paced with some tedious segments (Sonic like pipe maze, blockades which take several hits to destroy, etc.), trial & error (boss patterns, traps), some heavily saturated backgrounds, somewhat boring autoscrolling segments
Level Design-6.5 Frustration-8 Fun-7 Originality-6
Overall Score-7
+ Hidden items (get gold Sparkster, better attack power), some good bosses, Axel Gear returns, better jet pack controls, difficulty options, some fast segments, mini-bosses
+/- Playable intro (seems out of place and you can miss one of the hidden items if you don’t play it), one armed bandit bonus from collecting jewels (can be a bomb)
- Labyrinthine level designs (clash with Sparkster’s abilities), some tedious bosses (Genie, the yellow robots), slower paced with some tedious segments (Sonic like pipe maze, blockades which take several hits to destroy, etc.), trial & error (boss patterns, traps), some heavily saturated backgrounds, somewhat boring autoscrolling segments
