![]() ![]() ![]() Oh and remember in the first Earthworm Jim when you beat a level and Jim’s grinning mug shouted “Groovy”? Well… cows! After each and every level, cows will tell you “Well done”! Oh, oh, oh and there’s more cows! Come to find out, at the end of the game, everybody is a cow. Why go through all the trouble of honing your skills through the many levels in platforming and gunning, acquiring new weapons to blast away your foes, if there is no final boss to fight?īut hey, you loved that cow launch from the first game, right? Well, guess what? Now there’s a whole level about cows, “Udderly Abducted”, wherein our hero Jim has to lug the bovines about to rescue them from alien abduction and inevitable anal probes. Whoever gets to her first wins, and that’s the end of the game. I’ll say it right now: the final level is just a footrace against Psy-Crow to the Princess. The rest of the game is about rescuing Princess What’s Her Name, just like in the first game, only this time there’s no climactic battle against a hideous Queen. The entirety of EWJ 2 can be explained with the following logo: Whilst idly playing his accordion, Earthworm Jim finds his Princess princess-napped by the nefarious space bounty hunter turned princess-napper: Psy-Crow. Earthworm Jim 2 is guilty of both, and more. Many times sequels try to out-do the original entry in their franchise by going waaay over the top or repeating jokes and beats we’ve seen before and loved the first time. ![]() We used to look forward to sequels but now several of us know better. We’re rapidly approaching Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3, Christopher Reeve’s Superman III, or The Matrix Revolutions at the conclusion of this game. Ever wonder what the fall of Rome was like? Look no further than the glory that was so quickly lost in the Earthworm Jim franchise, which went from an awesome and hilarious Sega Genesis/SNES run and gun platformer to a mediocre, mark-missing Sega Genesis/SNES run and gun platformer.Īnd since EWJ 2 is the last game in the franchise to be developed by Jim’s original creators at Shiny Entertainment, you can rest assured that this was the beginning of the end. If “sequelitis” can be defined as “the law of physics which prescribes that sequels are worse than the original”, then you can define “sequelitis” as Earthworm Jim 2. “Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.” ![]()
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