Got my mitts on Earthworm Jim HD yesterday, and I'm happy to report it isn't quite the mess I predicted. It's not perfect: to the best of my knowledge neither the Mega Drive nor the SNES version is lurking away in any partitioned vault section, the music remix stresses anonymous, a secret stage has been removed, and Jim's playmobil pistol doesn't register as a death spewing hate machine anymore. Those issues aside there is much to like. Gameloft have woven in elements from the Mega CD Special Edition, finally allowing (relatively) unspoiled children to sample Shiny's original do-over. The Mega Drive exclusive Intestinal Distress level is in, and the additional stages loudly trumpeted by the trail are tucked away as bonus content in the main menu. Phew! In all Earthworm Jim HD is a successful reheat of a 16-Bit classic, it reintroduces you to all the things that made Dave Perry's platformer special, the playful structure, the joke bosses and nob-joke sound effects. 16-Bit Earthworm Jim took a skit sketch approach to platformer aesthetics. Levels were short and snappy and usually ended on a gag of some sort. This is the same. Earthworm Jim 2 now please!
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