Jill of the Jungle: The Complete Trilogy

since the 90s i liked this series - to find out it is free on gog.com this week ! thank you

This was one of the first games I remember playing back in 1993, and I must have beaten the first episode a million times! (We only had the first one on floppy disk). I can't wait to finally beat the rest!

The platforming is bad. It's really imprecise and the hard landings after every single jump completely kill any momentum. Combat is pretty bad too, although i enjoyed the frogs chasing you. Level design is really bad, lots of places where falling down makes you redo too much of the level. On the plus side, the boomerang-dagger is fun the few times it does work and i enjoyed the goofy elevators. Seriously though, don't bother with this, it compares poorly even to contemporary or older platformers like Prince of Persia or Super Mario.

WONDERFUL job with GREAT playability on Windows & LINUX WITHOUT the need for high graphics cards while still performing as it was designed.

so it's pretty bad, weren't they all? China Miner anyone? - graphics are merely average even by it's 1992 standards. - SFX are typical of the first generation sampled and midi SFX in PC, couresty of the earliest SoundBlaster cards. Ie they are short, sharp and like listening to badly tuned radio - music isn't bad, except for the instrument sounds themselves, for the same reasons as above - controls are primitive, and awful - gameplay is annoying, as it is with most platformers, more so with old 8 and 16 bit era examples - Jill herself was really just a pathetic attempt to grab the attention of zit squeezing teenagers of the time - and we're all in our 40's and 50's now and should be duly embarassed about that! I'm also embarassed to say I did play through the entire first freeware episode I acquired in the early 90s - and even slightly enjoyed it. Not so here in my twilight years! This is one that is best to leave in the past, even if GOG are giving it away for nothing. The curse of fanboi negrepping seems to be prevalent with all 1 and 2 stars reviews here as well. I know fanbois are extremely moronic sad cases, but to be negrepping bad reviews for this game, whilst posrepping shit like "iz jill" as long a it has 5-stars attached, well this is a new fanboi low! GFY fanbois.