1994, Vivid Image for Psygnosis.
There are a lot of action platform games in the Megadrive library, this one comes quite late on in the consoles lifespan. Sequel to ‘The First Samurai’ which was a much better game than this.
I just cannot get the hang of the jump distance in this. There are jumps I’m clearly supposed to be able to do easily and I can’t. I feel like I must be missing some sort of ‘jump higher’ input sequence, but I can’t find anything about that in the scans of the manual.
The combat is pretty decent at least, a nice variety of moves and some good chunky sound effects. I’m not entirely sure why this one appears to start off with you beating up cavemen and apes though.
Bonus points for having a two player mode, and having the second player be a woman (though it does lead to the options screen having the entry ‘woman: in front’ or ‘woman: behind’). Some very strong music from 16 bit legend Matt Furniss as well.
Sadly even a level where you ride a dinosaur couldn’t keep me interested, gave up after about 40 minutes.