There’s no new levels, characters, or anything of the sort. The game doesn’t even save to a memory card, something which was downright criminal for a game made in 1997. Sure, the voice acting is nice, but there’s nothing you haven’t seen in the SNES version. The biggest issue is that it feels like they barely did anything at all to do anything with the CD format. The music is also entirely different from the SNES version, or either of the two games entirely. If you’ve watched pretty much any cartoon at all in the ’90s, you’ll recognize at least of them from their first line, and it really helps a lot towards the whole cartoon vibe. He also voices the tutorial messages, in the smuggest sounding voice you’ll probably hear anybody give a tutorial in. Among the voice cast are Robert Paulsen, Jeff Bennett, Frank Welker, Tress MacNeille, and Jim Cummings, who, surprising nobody, voices the bad guy.
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On the plus side, all the dialogue is now voice acted, and they got together a pretty all-star cast for the game. It’s basically a cheat mode with a really obtuse way to unlock it, but it’s still pretty awesome. If that weren’t enough, you unlock a level skip feature. Fang steals another Street Fightermove by electrifying himself, hurting all enemies near him, and Scorch gets infinite flying time. Olaf can turn into a skull, which kills the nearest enemy. Baleog can hit enemies with a forward leap as well as going into a slashing frenzy. Erik will now be able to throw fireballs out of his hands, Street Fighter style. However, there IS one way to kill off a Viking in it, and if you find it, the game will grant all your characters new powers. The first level of the game is more or less a straight line, with no enemies or hazards. There’s actually a way to suck so hard that the game takes pity on you and gives all your characters whole new powers. The post-death conversations are still there, with lines like one of the characters complaining about how sequels are cheap ways for video game companies to make money when they’re out of ideas.
There’s still a ton of dialogue, and the game still never takes itself anywhere close to seriously. Not that the first game didn’t do it, but here it feels a little more blatant about it. It all feels very “see this thing, use this Viking”. The new powers on the Vikings are nice, though, even though they all feel so much more specific in their use than the old ones did. Not that their attacks aren’t useful, it just would have been nice to see something a little more innovative. They can both jump, for one thing, and instead of having some new power, they just attack.
The new moves and the new characters are nice, but something about them feels a little lacking in creativity. Scorch can fly upwards, although he gets tired quickly, and he can glide down from high places safely. Unlike Erik, he can perform a very Mega Man X-esque wall jump. Fang can attack at short range with his claws, and he has Erik’s jump. You’ll never have more than three characters in your party at the time, but in each level, you may have some of your characters swapped out, or end up having less than three. The other major addition are two new characters, Fang the Werewolf and Scorch the Dragon. There’s a few new level gimmicks involved as well, like ropes your characters can climb hand over hand across or pull themselves up onto. Sadly, however, there are more levels made out of candy. You go from Transylvania, to a pirate ship, eventually ending the game in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where you get into another fight with Tomator. Much like the original game, there’s five different worlds, each split into a number of levels. Olaf can shrink himself to fit through tiny passages, and, well, to put it bluntly, fart to give himself a boost while gliding and to bust blocks below him. To make the homage complete, he can even swing across gaps, although only from certain swing points, sadly. Baleog traded in his bow and arrow for a bionic arm, which he can use to hit enemies and pick up things from long range. He can also swim underwater, which is especially useful since the other Vikings still can’t. Erik can double jump to reach high places and smash blocks above him.
All the Vikings have new gear, and with it, new moves to go along with all their old ones.
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