The Adventures of Kid Kleets - SNES

Year: 1994
Publisher: Ocean
Developer: Krisalis

First Glance
I have seen Ocean pop up a few times already for these reviews, and I'm pretty sure I'm usually not happy about it.  So.. it's a platformer.  Except you have a soccer ball.  Except only sometimes, when you can keep it with you.  Looks like you can do a bunch of tricks with it, like balancing on it, or using it to jump higher, or just kicking it into bad guys, but it looks like it's going to be a pain to try to get it all down.  The camera is jumping all over the place.  You're collecting random food items.  Empty hearts doesn't mean you're dead; you still have one heart.   Weird..  I'm not expecting much from this past 10 minutes of something to do.

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Played for:  6 minutes

Not even 10 minutes, and I can't stand it.  It's even worse than I expected, and I was expecting pretty bad, considering you are trying to play a platformer while you are managing a soccer ball.  Who even thought that would be a good idea?  Oh yeah, also.  ALIENS.  How's that for a twist?  The story is that aliens took the world cup trophy, but then their spaceship got blown up, so the trophy broke and fell back to earth, in pieces, all over the globe.  "Who will find them?" they ask.  Apparently Kid Kleets is supposed to, but not while I'm playing.

The music is some cracked out carnival sounding music that just about drove me nuts.  Handling the soccer ball is a nightmare.  You kick it, but then it ends up three screens away, and you have no other attacks.  You can't take it up platforms with you.  Controlling the ball in general just makes no sense.  You only start with 3 hits, and a bunch of enemies all over the place, that you are supposed to use your shitty ball skills to kill, but it just doesn't work like that.  Thanks again, Ocean.  I will be on the lookout for you now.

Hit it or Quit it?
Quit it, and I hope they never find the stupid trophy.  And I hope someone pops this kid's ball.  I hate soccer anyways.