Jill of the Jungle: The Complete Trilogy

6 of 5 must play. 5 of 5 great story great gameplay. 4 of 5 great story average gameplay. 3 of 5 average story average gameplay. 2 of 5 play only if it's your favorite genre. 1 of 5 play if you have nothing better to do. 0 of 5 play if you're a masochist. -1 of 5 avoid. Jill of the Jungle the Complete Trilogy scores 0 of 5.

I bought this game about 10 years ago, before GoG (You could send a check to an address on the East Coast and get original floppies of 90's Epic Games - legitimate copies, but probably from some guy in his basement with thousands of the originals. I still have the One Must Fall 2097 poster and hint manual), and like most Epic Games platformers of the period, I found it spectacularly underwhelming. Jazz Jackrabbit was the only one that broke the mold - but I digress. Jill is very bland. The fighting is tedious - your boomerang or whatever-it-is absolutely refuses to go where it should - and the enemies are repetitive. The crawler/patroller types feature heavily in the game's Rogues Gallery, and for a game released in '92, the graphics somehow look worse than the original Commander Keen. Only Jill looks nice (a key selling point, I would imagine). Also the jumping was touchy, and Jill would frequently overshoot (as you couldn't change direction in mid-air and floated like a balloon) and end up crisped in the lava. Once you've played through a handful of levels, nothing dramatically changes for the rest of the game. No enemies break the "don't touch it or it'll kill you somehow!" standard and waddle around from barrier to barrier, awaiting your deadly boomerang toss. I found it very similar to Wolfenstein 3D - you get everything the game has to offer in the first few levels and that's it. It's not a buggy game, which is one plus. It played very smoothly. The only downside was I didn't want to keep playing it! I played this in 2008 or something, so nostalgia didn't cover up any of the perceived defects. It's free, sure, but you can get much better 90's platforming for only a handful of dollars. I wouldn't recommend this game.

For all the recent damage they have done? Nice try, but it wont be enough. #BoycottGOG