The first biz I see at any group discussion sets the shade of the entire event , which is why I was cognisant of the fact that I chose to kvetch off my time at GDC 2025 by checking out a collection of Bubsy remasters . Accolade ’s ill-famed platformer serial needs piddling presentation at this degree ; it has been the butt of YouTube unfavorable judgment for over a decade . Bubsy 3Dis deal one of the regretful game of all sentence , while the other title for organisation like SNES , Sega Genesis , Game Boy , and Atari Jaguar vary wildly in timber .
Bubsy in : The Purrfect Collectionfrom Limited Run Games and Atari bundles every released Bubsy game together into one parcel , creating the classical bear on variation of this franchise for anyone whose wonder is piqued by this ill-famed slice of platformer history . While kick off GDC by playingBubsy 3Dmight not have been the most glamourous outset , examine a maintain , enhanced version of the games ( with feature like widescreen ) in action and speaking to the developers behind me reaffirmed how deserving this bumbling game mascot is of a button like this .
Every game is somebody’s favorite
Re - releases likeBubsy in : The Purrfect Collectiontend to happen because someone on the development side is really passionate about the secret plan . In this case , Limited Run Gamesproducer Audi Sorlie is a unswerving guardian of this notorious bobcat . As I play through the different game in this collection , Sorlie was full of knowledge about the smallest intricacies of each game . He move on to recount how discovered the game in EGM as a kid and thought it stick out due to the Saturday - morning animated cartoon - alike esthetic and expansive levels .
He ’s particularly let down by how the infamy ofBubsy 3Dhas sullied the overall eyeshot of the serial publication . “ We should n’t just go back and say that because this infamous plot is what it was that the intact franchise was a misanthropic John Cash snap , ” Sorlie says . “ We should evaluate everything in full setting , and I ’ve always felt that about games , and Bubsy has been the post-horse child of that for me . “
Bubsy in : The Purrfect Collectiondoes just that . The package contains every Bubsy plot release throughout the nineties so you’re able to play them all for yourself and take form your own opinion . It also includes a museum featuring various assets and interviews to bring home the bacon more color to this serial ’ history . Some game have even receive slight enhancements . Outside of the rewind machinist that obviously makes thing a morsel gentle , advance way fixes some of the frame pace dips of the master copy . ForBubsy 3D , Limited Run Games even added a widescreen mode and is explore further enhancements .
Bubsy 3Dis still terrible , but experience a slightly extensive field of view and play a level after playing the other games in the collection sure enough bewitch me in a path that I never expected to be in that first appointment of GDC . Bubsy might be more infamous than famous , but he ’s go a collecting on equivalence with amazing franchises likeTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , Street Fighter , and Rocket Knight .
It ’s a collection made for hoi polloi who like Bubsy by someone who truly loves this character . As Sorlie recounted how Bubsy revitalize his life and calling , I became more excited forBubsy in : The Purrfect Collectionthan I ever expected to be .
“ When we got into the last of 2010s , I unluckily fell into a deep depressive disorder and left the industriousness for a little spot , ” Sorlie says . “ [ Digital Foundry ’s ] John Linneman asked ‘ Do you want to do a picture together ? ’ It was right before April , so I was like ‘ Well , the only theme I have is I desire to do a Bubsy telecasting ’ and he told me we can do that for April Fools . Nothing ’s funnier than if we put up a Bubsy video on April 1 that ’s an actual , genuine documentary about Bubsy , so that ’s what we did . ”
“ It really economise my biography because , as I said , I was not feel good at that sentence , and the outreach from that documentary was such that it made me really want to do this again . When I finally found my pep again and found my step back at once from that documentary and its reception , Joe [ Modzeleski , Development Director at Limited Run Games ] and I started talking and working together . The natural conclusion to that : Why do n’t we do a Bubsy assemblage ? ”
Bubsy in : the Purrfect Collectionis in development for PC , Xbox Series X / S , PS5 , and Nintendo Switch .
