On the way, you can find the usual powerups to restore your health, and ammo for many conventional (plasma weapon, super plasma beam, home-ing device) and not-so-conventional weapons (bubble gun, three-directonal shooting glove, nuclear brickhouse). Making the platforming part more fun is a creature called Snot (a pile of big green, well, snot, with eyes), who sits in your backpack and can be used as a parachute, or you can paste it to the ceiling at certain spots, and swing in directions at increased speeds. You have the standard move-jump-crouch-shoot set of movements, but you can also use Jim itself as a whip to save ammo. No, I'm not making this all up.Īs EWJ2 is just a 16-bit game, you can expect the most old-school, classic 2d platform action - most of the time. Cow jokes abound as Jim travels from planets of paperwork to planets of food, fighting evil goldfish and udder saucers, saving little puppies, playing quiz shows and milking cows. With his supersuit, he goes on hopping from planet to planet, looking for his beloved Princess-What's-Her-Name, who was kidnapped by the nefarious Psy-Crow in a creative intro sequence. The main character is a concept of its own: Jim the Earthworm, armed with a super space suit granting him not just super-worm but super-human strength as well. In fact it was proven popular enough for a 32bit port to be released, both for the Saturn and Playstation.Įarthworm Jim 2 is one completely ridiculous game. With rich variety in gameplay, and absurd over the top humor, it quickly rose in popularity, to the point that it had its own cartoon show for a while.
Popping out of the head of Doug TenNapel, Earthworm Jim was one of the most iconic heroes of the 16-bit era.
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