Retro Weekends plays and reviews Wild 9 for the PS1. All gameplay footage taken from real hardware.
What we thought
"I enjoyed this game but it started to drag a bit for me by the end, the levels were just too long. I liked using the rig, the puzzle were good, I liked the way that you get more points for being nasty to the bad guys that was quirky. Presentation wasn't bad but didn't really stand out for the time, and the music I felt was just okay. Overall just a solid platform game really, nothing more, I'm going to give it a high 2/5 as there were many better platformer games available at the time."
2/5
"I thought this was a fun game, there's a few creative ideas in there, such as the rig which allows you to grapple and throw enemies into different deathtraps and such which is fun. The game play has a decent amount of variety too, going from platforming sections, to speederbike sections, to levels where you're falling whilst fighting enemies, which keeps the game play interesting. The level design itself is perhaps nothing we haven't seen before, and maybe the control for the rig could've done with tightening up a bit, but the game play was still very respectable and some of the puzzles were interesting."
