Croc: Legend of the Gobbos

The Good
Colorful setting, cute character designs, great music. The environments are nice on the eyes and many of the levels have hidden secrets. The Sonic style "as long as you keep picking up one gem you stay alive" system makes this game more forgiving in the difficult parts. The instant 'turn around' button is a life saver. Collecting the colored gems/gobbos is satisfyingly. Lots of variety in level arrangements despite the simple building blocks. Straightforward game progression, lasts about as long as it need to.

The Bad
Platforming sections become more unreasonable the further you get into the game. Much backtracking is required for a good chunk of levels. The 'bonus rooms' at the end of each level become far less creative once you get to world 3. The boss fights tend to be unclear (i.e. when is the boss vulnerable?). Huge difficulty spike in the 3rd world. Massive overuse of monkey bar climbing (very slow). Controls are hit or miss (jumping off jellies is finicky). Respawning enemies are annoying, some projectile attacks require tight precision to avoid, but feel more frustrating than challenging. Being able to game over in the bonus rooms is dumb, makes 100%ing the game less enticing.

The Bottom Line
Looks great, has some iffy design choices here and there with some odd controls, but when it works, it works.