![]() First off, Gadget’s controls are… not very good. THE GAMEPLAY – Wow…I’m not sure if I’ve come across a platformer that’s THIS utterly generic in a good while. The sound effects on the other hand are fairly tolerable, despite some annoyances here and there. Yes, there are plenty of worse soundtracks out there, but that statement alone cannot remedy a flaw. Putting aside the fact that Hudson Soft made a Inspector Gadget game without the theme song, a lot of the tracks are rather forgettable and just plain boring. THE SOUND – Well, I can definitely say that this is one of the SNES’ weaker soundtracks. ![]() I mean, the fact that we never got to saw his face is what made him as interesting and menacing as he is, so why bother ruining it? Eh, let’s just move on. Now, even as someone who doesn’t care about the series that much, I do have to say that it kind of goes against everything about Claw’s character. Claw looks like (though I won’t show it since I want to stay true to the series). ![]() Also, at the climax of the aforementioned stage, we actually get to see what Dr. Surely, no other game has ever done this before. Heck, there’s even a level at the end of kind of rips off Wing Fortress from Sonic 2! I forgot to mention that whenever Gadget takes a hit, he loses his clothes. While the levels and their backgrounds are nice and detailed, they do give off a somewhat generic vibe, consisting of ghostly woods, a desert, and the like. Some looked like pure garbage, while others like this one actually looked pretty good. THE LOOKS – Back in the day, most licensed games based off of cartoons were usually made several years after the show itself ended. But putting the lack of actual story aside, where in the spectrum of licensed titles does this game fall? Let’s find out, shall we? The game’s premise revolves around Gadget traveling throughout the world to save his niece Penny from the clutches of M.A.D., and…that’s about it. The one that we’ll be looking at today is a 1993 side-scrolling SNES title called…well, Inspector Gadget. Anyways, given that the show was extremely popular at the time, it was a no-brainer that games were to be made…about a good number of years after the show ended, to be precise.
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