Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures is similar to other Apogee games but that's nice. If you like old Apogee jump n run games you will also like this one. It's a colorful funny experience. The graphics look cheerful and the leveldesign is cute and fairly diversified. Climbing on walls is fun and it gives you the chills when you look down...:D and that's another nice feature, looking up and down, and sometimes this means gathering stars when being at the right place to look up...and so you can reach bonus levels which are quite interesting. Furthermore picking up special items can increase your health bar, that's a good incentive to explore levels thoroughly. And I don't know whether I'm the only one, but being swallowed and catapulted by a plant feels enormously exciting to me^^ I really think the price isn't high regarding what you get for it. Today you often pay more for games not having as much features as this game. I can highly recommend this game, spent hours on it, and not only back in the days, so I'm not idealizing it :)

This year (2015) was my first time playing this fun EGA platformer. The suction cup hands were a neat idea. Robert Prince's music is great as usual. The graphics are good for that time period. The enemy types were varied and interesting. The boss battles were pretty easy though once you know the trick. Levels varied between linear left-to-right to complex and non-linear and some were quite challenging to finish.

In the "old days" I never had the chance, to play the full (registered) version of this game. In that time I would have said, that it is great game! Yes, you see things differently with younger eyes. Of course I only played the shareware episode and since I personally wasn't a great player I never finished it. But did manage to reach level 5 or 6 or so out of the 10. But now, that there is the chance, to get the game on GOG, well I said to myself: why not, I put on my nostalgia glasses and bought it. Oh boy, I forgot how hard this game is. The controls are mostly okay, but the enemy & traps movement/placement, primitive screen "refresh" (or whatever it is called) and also because of the limited colors palette (EGA graphics) this game is tough. On the positive site: the player gets 9 save slots and Cosmo has unlimited lives :) If you have fond memories of it, than buy it and support the developer/published and GOG. For these who gets easily frustrated, I don't recommend this game.

Loved playing the first "shareware" episode as a kid and later purchased it from apogee (3d realms) and still play it frequently today. Once you get used to the zoomed in screen this game is well worth your time. It plays very similarly to Super Mario or even Sonic but unlike those games you really have to proceed with caution. The level design of the first episode is up there with the best and while it isn't easy feels mostly fair with the exception of a few jumping sections in certain levels such as 4 and 6. I really appreciate how each new level feels unique in theme and hazards (besides 1 and 2). The next two episodes however take this blind jumping to an almost extreme level of difficulty. There is a particularly memorable level (7) in episode 2 where you are not only blind jumping but you are blind jumping onto to sides of small icy platforms right over a death pit with some of them containing those dang blue shooty plants. Basically if you don't have the reflexes of the cat on that one you are SOL. There is also less variety in the last two episodes as far as settings and enemies but that's to be expected with how these shareware version games worked at the time. Definitely worth picking up but expect to get your butt handed to you in episodes 2 and 3.