Todd's Adventures in Slime World review - Sega Megadrive

By the end of the next century cleaning work is no longer the responsibility of shuffling old men with ancient vacuum cleaners. Look at Todd, a steel-jawed clear-eyed sack of testosterone. However, Todd's job extends a little further than cleaning a few local offices for a couple of hours a night. Todd is in fact an interplanetary space cleaner, with the unenviable task of cleaning up the putrid Slime World, a planet composed entirely of ant-eater mucus.

The thing is that Slime World is full of valuable minerals called slime gems which are of great use to Earth society. However, it is also full of evil slime-dwelling creatures with Todd's demise very much in mind. Todd must now clear the way for the mining colonists by ridding the planet of its odious hordes, as well as collecting as many slime gems as he can to increase his personal fortune.

The Slime World itself is a pseudo-platform network of tunnels composed of slime of a vary solidity. Todd runs, jumps and climbs around in his search for the slime gems, taking out slime monsters with his high-power water cannon on the way.

What the Mean Machines staff thought

Slime World is entertaining in its concept, although the thought of a platform adventure where your character drowns in snot is pretty gross. The gameplay is mostly exploration based, encouraging you to learn your way around the Slime World and find all the secret rooms hidden in the mire. The appeal of Slime World is further bolstered by the enjoyable two-player mode, especially in a competitive scenario! However, it's not all fun and frolics for Slime World. The graphics are atrocious, the sprites are malformed and grotesquely animated and the backgrounds don't really change. The scrolling is jerky and blur-inducing, and the cack-handed controls and slow responsiveness rob the game of a lot of its potential. Slime World is a fairly original and challenging title which is okay if you don't mind the crippled pace.

Slime World is a pretty jolly game and should appeal to people who enjoy a good exploration game. There's plenty of mapable levels to explore throughout the game and a variety of secret rooms to unearth beneath all the slime! Slime World's many different game variations and the great two-player mode also add to the fun. My gripes with the game are similar to Rad's. The game is graphically backward and jerky scrolling should not be permitted on any Megadrive game. I guess it's just down to poor programming. Exploration fans with a chum ready for some two-player frivolity will probably get their money's worth. Everybody else should spend their hard-earned shekels elsewhere.

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Dan - 08 Apr 2009, 12:24 GMT

I never actually played this, but it was the butt of a lot of jokes from my mates who had. One of those "Ha ha, Burgin got Super Bowlin and Dark Castle, and THEN he swapped em both for Slime World and Road Fighter!!" games. Last I heard Burgin was injectin smack, wonder if his games collection had owt to do with it.....

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