SNES

Mr. Nutz

The lack of a save option is it's only real drawback. Even if the game is excellent, most gamers are not perseverent enough to sit through such a big dosis of gaming in one setting, it's just too much to take. Shame, really as this means many will probably miss out on this unsung gem of the Super NES platform heritage. Those brave enough to give it go, however, will be richly rewarded.

There's nothing that especially marks out Mr Nutz as being better than other platform games. It's more a case of there being nothing noticably wrong with it, thanks to painstaking fine-tuning by Ocean's team of French programmers. Mr Nutz himself is just about spot-on, for example - really cute, neatly animated, and perfectly controllable (although he falls through swinging ropes unless he catches them at the very end, which always annoys me, and I'm becoming steadily less convinced by the concept of killing baddies by jumping on their heads - it's just too error-prone)

An absolute stunning-looking game which will attract envious glances from even the likes of Capcom. This could be the start of something big.

Mr. Nutz es un plataformas simpático, jugable, difícil y... bastante breve a causa del número de fases. Por otra parte, los gráficos son llamativos y vistosos, que asemejan el mundo de esta simpática ardilla con uno de fantasías y dibujos. El sonido también está a la altura y, por supuesto, la jugabilidad convierte a este cartucho en un plataformas divertido que gustará a cualquier aficionado al género por la simpatía y complejidad que desprende al mismo tiempo. Es cierto que podría ser más largo, pero para tratarse del primer juego de Ocean (y uno de los primeros plataformas del sistema) para Super Nintendo supera con nota lo que se esperaba del él. Es una pena que como no tuvo muy buenas ventas no se siguió explotando al personaje, pero también hubieron varias ediciones en otras consolas y, por supuesto, su correspondiente adaptación al sistema portátil.

This irrepressible defender of the forest, already a cable TV star in the U.K. tries for the U.S. market in a fairly standard action adventure. Not bad...but undistinguished.

Avec ses sublimes graphismes et ses musiques riches, Mr Nutz est artistiquement une réussite incontestable. Malheureusement la structure des niveaux et la difficulté due à des monstres bien trop nombreux viennent gâcher le plaisir de jeu. Le titre d'Ocean France reste un bon jeu pour les plus patients qu'il faut tout de même essayer à l'occasion, au moins pour son premier monde Woodyland.

What it comes down to is that Mr. Nutz doesn't offer anything different or exciting. What's so great about watching apples and tomatoes get smooshed as Mr. Nutz jumps on them? I've tried to think of something interesting to say about the game, but nothing comes to mind. The game's okay, but okay just isn't going to cut it.

The video game world is currently overpopulated with cute little forest creatures and their endangered friends. Too many more and we'll all go nutty!