In short, this game is a mess that should be avoided at all costs. To call this an oversight would be a huge understatement-it's a glaring problem that should have been fixed before the game shipped. Others will start you off on the intended level, only to kill your character right away, not even giving you the chance to play. Some passwords the game provides after finishing levels simply won't work when typed in. One has to wonder what exactly went wrong this time around, especially since the previous Earthworm Jim game on the GBA was just fine.Īdding insult to injury is the bug-ridden password feature this game offers. The audio seems to be the part of the game that was least affected by the move to the GBA, although the music and sampled voices aren't very distinctive. Those same sprites also seem to be missing many key frames of animation, making the game look even worse in motion. The graphics barely resemble what the game used to look like, to the point where the entire game looks like a mess of badly drawn sprites. To put it bluntly, you'll get the distinct impression that just about every chance to cut corners was taken in porting Earthworm Jim 2 to the GBA. While Majesco's first attempt at bringing Earthworm Jim to the Game Boy Advance looked, played, and sounded much like the original, this game is a completely different story.

Unfortunately, this port has a host of new problems that render the game virtually unplayable. Close to seven years later, Majesco Games has brought Earthworm Jim 2 to the Game Boy Advance.

Featuring a memorable yet unlikely hero, outlandish humor, and surreal level design, it was an unusual game to say the very least. Originally released toward the tail end of the 16-bit era on the SNES and Genesis, Earthworm Jim 2 defied the conventions of what gamers had come to expect from a 2D platformer.

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