Speaking of PS2 games, I've been working through Scaler because I could never beat the final boss when I was younger. It's a reasonable game. Everything works. The level design is quite good at points. The vine riding is nice and fast paced with a risk/reward thing in the electric bomb charging that can add to the excitement.
The worlds that you visit all have a theme and they stick well to it. It mostly feels like you're moving through a natural environment and not over a fuck lot of inexplicable platforms.
The transformation mechanic could be good. Sadly, you can only transform in the world you learnt 2 transformations. The other 3 have 2 worlds that you can transform in.
The game's full of good ideas that haven't been properly developed.
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