Johnny Bazookatone OR Spot Goes to Hollywood OR Whizz?

[sych]

Some lesser known Saturn platformers here. Will it be: Johnny Bazookatone, Spot Goes To Hollywood or Whizz? Pick one and list your reasons below.

JOHNNY BAZOOKATONE



SPOT GOES TO HOLLYWOOD



WHIZZ

[pocketpocket]

Spot is the only one I've played and I haven't played it in years. Ridiculous as it is to say about a game that exists basically just to market 7Up, I actually kinda like it. Even if it's not really a masterpiece I still get the vibe that the developers wanted to make a genuinely good game that could stand on it's own with this IP, partially from the game not actually really having anything to do with soda and also the fact that they still released it in PAL format even without the 7Up branding. Controls work well enough as far as isometric gameplay goes, there's a nice amount of variety in the levels, lots of secrets to find and pretty great music. It's not going to be winning any awards, but hey, I liked it.

Whizz looks incredibly awkward from the Youtube video, the lack of diagonal movement looks incredibly restrictive and it looks like you run way too fast for this style of gameplay. Sonic 3D had a similar issue with the speed but at least the controls were smooth.

[Sonnington]

Love these threads. In Johnny Bazookatone I got stuck right there at the end of the video too. It was kind of a... meh platformer. I don't remember playing Spot Goes to Hollywood, but I did like Whizz... insofar... it's no masterpiece, but it's a serviceable platformer. It reminded me of Lemmings Paintball, so I have to give it some respect.

[tempest]

I haven't played any of these but Spot and Whizz look interesting. Johnny Bazookatone looks pretty lame to me.

[davyk]

Played Whizz but that was on SNES. It had crippling time limits. I had the Saturn version too but hardly played it at all.

Still Have Cool Spot for SNES - a nice platformer (way better than Whizz). i had the Saturn version but wasn't all that fussed with it - wasn't a fan of the forced perspective view.

Haven't voted.

[sych]

Haven't played any of these games but at love at first sight I'm leaning towards Spot Goes to Hollywood so it gets my vote.