Now Jim must make it to the princess and stay clear of Psy-Crow, the intergalactic bounty hunter, until the final battle with Queen Slug-For-A-Butt. Meanwhile, there's a bounty on Jimmy and plenty of people are in line to take Queen Slug-For-A-Butt up on her offer. That cosmic twist of fate placed Jim in control of an ultra-high-tech-indestructible-super-space-cyber-suit.Īnyway, Earthworm Jim found out that Princess What's-Her-Name had been captured and set out to save her.

Although Psy-Crow killed the rebel, the suit fell down to Earth, landing on an Earth Worm. The evil Psy-Crow was transporting a super suit, built by the genius Professor Monkey-For-A-Head, to Queen Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-Filled, Malformed, Slug-For-A-Butt, but along the way it was stolen by a rebel. He was once just a spineless, dirt-eater with no real mission in his life.īut then something unexpected happened. The lift has two speeds, fast and slow, and Jim has to get the timing just right because grannies are falling from the sky, and if one lands on him they will start beating him with a handbag saying “How fresh!” Elsewhere in the level, a pig-sty appears, and Jim has to lift up sizable hogs.Jim wasn't always a studly super-worm. In the middle of a swampy forest, Jim suddenly has to ride up a flight of stairs in a stairlift. Most of these enemies are generically cartoony, but soon some oddities become apparent. This style is readily apparent in EJ2, which first presents the player with figuring out how to run, jump, and attack.

“A game’s first job is to entertain through gameplay and secondarily through humor, drama, or other traditional entertainment devices,” TenNapel says in the Kill Screen interview, adding that for humor to work in a game, it “has to be a gentleman.” That is to say, it should be present in quick spurts. TenNapel, speaking to Kill Screen, described the humor of the series as “a difficult tightrope of satire, innocence, and non-sequitur humor.” The plot of EJ2 is a simple, and much like the plot of the first: save Princess Whats-Her-Name from the evil Psy-Crow, no matter how gross the journey gets. Like the Sonic games, Earthworm Jim started with a character, and that character was meant to be goofier than Mario.

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