Oscar

Oscar sait séduire grâce à des graphismes superbes, une musique très chouette et une jouabilité parfaite. Oscar sera incontestablement un hit. Sonic n'a qu'à bien se tenir.

This fun and colorful arcade game is a product of Flair software. Oscar is a typical platform jumper that was also published for Amiga about a year before it was released for PCs. It's clear that the game was done in a console manner. As I said in the beginning, the graphics are nicely done very colorful VGA graphics, and there are a few special effects included. The level design is original and different for every level. Anyone who feels like playing a simple game should download this one. No excessive use of brain-power is needed (after all it is an arcade), just a desire to have a few hours of fun entertainment.

Am 1200er gefiel Flairs Jump & Run recht gut, die dem CD32 beiliegende Version hat sogar etwas hübschere Grafik, Musik von der CD, eine bessere Steuerung und ein paar zusätzliche Levels zu bieten. Andererseits haben die Plattform-Dinos auf der Schillerscheibe mit technischen Patzern zu kämpfen, was insgesamt zu Punktabzug führt: 70 Prozent.

Oscar has all the makings of an excellent platform game, but it seems that Flair have tried too hard in all the wrong places. Not the best entry point to the world of CD32 games!

Oh dear. I am still finding this a bit hard to believe, to be honest. The CD32’s rather nice joypad has no less than seven buttons on it. Oscar uses ‘up’ to jump. Otherwise, this is, as far as I can tell, exactly the same game as the less-than-amazing A1200 version we reviewed last month. It is still almost completely impossible to see the bad guys against the backgrounds on most of the levels, it is still littered with bits where you have to leap off the screen and just hope for the best, only to end up plummeting down a bottomless lift shaft or similar, you still have to bounce on the soppiest baddies three times to dispose of them (a pointless annoyance that even the PC version ironed out), and it is still basically just a more garish version of Trolls with most of the good bits taken out.

Älskar du plattformsspel så kommer du att älska Oscar, annars kan inte ens grafiken göra dig intresserad.