Earthworm Jim 2

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Earthworm Jim 2
Developer(s)	Shiny Entertainment Screaming Pink (Sega Saturn, PlayStation)
Publisher(s)	NA Playmates Interactive Entertainment EU Virgin Interactive
Designer(s)	David Perry Doug TenNapel
Composer(s)	Tommy Tallarico
Series	Earthworm Jim
Platform(s)	Sega Mega Drive, Super NES, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, MS-DOS, Game Boy Advance, Virtual Console
Release date(s)	Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: EU December 22, 1995 NA 1996 SNES: NA 1995 EU January 25, 1996 MS-DOS (PC): April 30, 1996 Sega Saturn: NA October 31, 1996 JPN November 11, 1996 Sony PlayStation: EU November 1996 Game Boy Advance: NA May 31, 2002 EU November 29, 2002 PC (GOG.com Re-release) NA 2008 Virtual Console JP September 1, 2009 NA December 14, 2009[1] EU December 4, 2009[2]
Genre(s)	Platform
Mode(s)	Single Player
Rating(s)	ESRB: Everyone ELSPA: 3+ PEGI: 7

Earthworm Jim 2 is a platform video game released in 1995. It is a sequel to the original Earthworm Jim. The music was composed by game music veteran Tommy Tallarico. Earthworm Jim 2 follows the exploits of annelid superhero Jim and his new sidekick Snott as they try to rescue Jim's beloved Princess What's-Her-Name from a forced marriage to the nefarious Psy-Crow. While chasing them across the universe, Jim comes across the summer homes of a number of villains from the first game, including Evil the Cat and Bob the Killer Goldfish.

The game originally appeared on the Mega Drive/Genesis, Super NES and MS-DOS, with enhanced versions later released on the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. It was also ported to the Game Boy Advance in 2002 and the Wii Virtual Console in 2009. Like the original game, Earthworm Jim 2 contains a lot of irreverent, random humor. It also features more diverse gameplay than the original, with each stage having a different style and mission, as well as various new weapons.

Gameplay

Gameplay is much more diverse than in the first Earthworm Jim, largely departing from the template of a standard platformer. Although the majority of levels are based on platformer elements, they also incorporate gameplay from a variety of different genres, including mazes, trivia contests, arcade game style levels, and a marathon race which acts as the game's final level. Many levels are heavily non-linear and are navigated in an unusual manner.

Jim's movement has changed from the original Earthworm Jim. For instance, he can no longer use his head to swing or to hover like a helicopter. Instead, Jim is accompanied by a living mucus named Snott, who resides in Jim's backpack and allows him to float by morphing into a parachute and swing by sticking on ceilings that are covered with dripping goo.

Levels

1. Anything But Tangerines (Music Track: Tangerine)

Jim enters this level with pigs helping him get from one place to another. He must avoid the blunderbuss-wielding octopuses and dodge an onslaught of falling grannies to get through. Bob the Goldfish is the boss at the end of the level.

2. Lorenzen's Soil (Music Track: Subterranean)

In this area, Jim uses a special blaster that can carve through rock. He must dig his way beneath Pedro Pupa's territory and defeat Pedro himself at the end. This level also experiences frequent earthquakes that can only be avoided by collecting alarm clocks that increase your time limit. Baby-hauling ants also reside down here. The PC version in the "Whole Can o' Worms" set is missing this stage.

3. The Villi People/Jim's Now A Blind Cave Salamander! (Music Track: "Moonlight Sonata" 1st movement)

Jim must traverse a series of intestinal passages disguised as Blind Sally, the blind cave salamander, while avoiding exploding sheep and enormous pinball bumpers. The walls of the level are lined with dangerous villi, making safe landing areas scarce. The first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is used as the background music, for haunting effect. The level also features a trivia show in which the questions and/or answers to choose from rarely make sense.

4. The Flyin' King (Music Track: Tropical Paradise)

This level has Jim riding his Pocket Rocket over an ocean paradise. You must guide an explosive balloon through the skies while avoiding various perils that reside below, including pirate ships and flying sumo-centurions. As you advance, the beautiful landscape begins to change into a mucus wasteland, where Major Mucus is waiting. You must use the explosive balloon to defeat him. In the game manual, this level is titled 'The Flyin' King and Peter Pain'.

5. Udderly Abducted (Music Track: The Moo Tango)

Possibly the most nonsensical level in the game, Jim must traverse an eerie planet where cows grow out of flowers and enormous bathtubs are abundant. Super powered penguins and flying udders are only a few of the landscape's perils that Jim must avoid while protecting the cows from being abducted. Jim advances through the level by carrying cows to various milking stables to weigh down a bucket that open gates blocking his way.

6. Inflated Head (Music Track: The Big Top Polka)

In this level, Jim must inflate his head and float up through the terrifying Circus of Scars. Evil the Cat resides here using various techniques to deflate your head and knock you down to the start of the level.

7. ISO 9000 (Music Track: Subterannean)

The dreadful planet of paperwork is Jim's next destination. He will have to fight his way past living file cabinets, various fire hazards, and the evil masked lawyers. The planet's only exit is through a door with legs that will constantly evade you.

8. Level Ate (Music Track: Tropical Paradise)

From the planet of paperwork to a planet of food, Jim must avoid spear-shooting bendy straws and enormous salt shakers. Flamin' Yawn is the boss of this deliciously dreadful planet. Hidden in this level is a bonus section known as Totally Forked.

9. See Jim Run, Run Jim Run! (Music Track: "Moonlight Sonata" 3rd movement)

Within the Lost Vegas system, Jim must race Psycrow through the twisted passages of Cupid's Cathedral and rescue the princess. The third movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is used within this level. Unlike the last game, there is no final boss battle in this level; the objective is simply to get to the end before Psy-Crow does.

0. Puppy Love (Music Track: Funiculi Funicula)

You will have to complete this level three times throughout the game (firstly between Levels 2 and 3, then between levels 5 and 6, and finally between7 and 8). Psycrow will reside in a tower while throwing Peter's baby pups out the window. You must bounce the puppies as they fall to Peter's own house using a giant marshmallow. Dropping too many puppies will result in Peter attacking you angrily. Psycrow will also throw a bomb along with the puppies to be delivered to Peter's house. This bomb is thrown back to Psy-Crow injuring him and incrementing the stage by one.

Characters

• Peter the Puppy - Peter is Earthworm Jim's best friend! But with friends like this, who needs enemies. He is a normal mild mannered cute puppy until you annoy him, then he becomes a real pain, literally. He turns into one huge Purple Monster with a penchant for super powered earthworms.

Jim's friend Snott grants him new abilities, such as allowing him to slow his descent or swing from snot-covered ceilings

• Snott - A spy composed of mucous who stole the super suit in the first place, before Psycrow blasted his ship into smithereens. Now Snott has vowed to join Earthworm Jim in his quest against the Evil Queen.

• Princess-What's-Her-Name - Twin sister of the Queen, fraternal twins obviously. EWJ's love interest and damsel in distress. She hates her sister and most of the people of Insectica because of the constant teasing she is the butt of because of her misfortunes in the look's department (Keep in mind that they're bugs).

• Psy-Crow - Psy-Crow is one psychotic crow, hence his name. He will follow Jim to the far reaches of space for that Super Suit. He is loyal only to the evil Queen, which is quite strange since he is a crow and crows eat bugs.

• Evil the Cat - This is one twisted Cat. His home Heck is filled with lawyers and demons, not to mention elevator music (OH! NO! The humanity!). When not in Heck, Evil swaps jobs with his cousin Flagitious and runs "The Circus of the Scars", a traveling circus with a difference. Evil likes nothing more than inflicting pain, well maybe after cleaning his fur.^[3]

Soundtrack

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Reception

This section requires expansion.

It was voted the 12th Best Genesis Game by Screwattack.

References

External links

• Earthworm Jim 2 at MobyGames