The levels are a bit bigger, there are two new levels, you usually have to explore the whole thing, as opposed to the old one where there were a lot of spaces you just didn't have to go to, there's a lot of talking that you'll enjoy if you liked the cartoon or if you don't you'll hate it, but you can skip it in like half a second.
There are a few annoyances, but mostly it's really good.
not sure how I feel about the forced length. Having to explore to figure the level out, then discovering the quickest path for later play throughs was one of the coolest things about it. A little bit of sandbox before anyone did sandbox games.
It's too hard. You can go for hours without beating a level because it's so hard. It's like Mario Galaxy 2 in its difficulty. WEHHHHHH. WEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Easy mode is easy, unlimited lives and a lot of checkpoints. None of the reviewers that complained about the difficulty even tried easy or all their problems would have been solved.
Normal is kind of hard. You barely get any 1ups but you can get up to 8 hearts. Hard is kind of easier. You're back to 5 hearts and no map screen but you get a shit ton of 1ups and nothing in the game is different in terms of speed or timing, hits to kill, etc. Same game. Extreme or whatever has no continues, no map and Normal mode number of 1ups but again, nothing is harder or different in terms of enemies and obstacles and you still get 5 hearts.
Oh the super secret extra thing at the end is faster depending on the difficulty, but it has like three shortcuts, one of which makes it trivial, so if you need help on that just let me know.
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