Lester the Unlikely Review

 (Originally published to Glitchwave on 4/27/21)

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Lester the Unlikely

Developer: Visual Concepts Entertainment

Publisher: DTMC

Genre(s): 2D Platformer

Platforms: SNES

Release Date: January 1, 1994

I'll admit, it's a fairly interesting concept. Having a video game protagonist in a platformer that doesn't have superpowers, guns, or any other extraordinary abilities is unorthodox, especially for the 16-bit era. However, in executing that gimmick, it's UNLIKELY that this game was going to be exemplary. It almost verges on being purposefully bad. Lester is incredibly fragile and controlling him feels like shit. His movement has to be meticulously executed or else he'll get hurt, mostly from the amount of jumping you'll do. It's like the developers had the players in mind when making this game as if YOU were in a platforming game with nothing but the shirt on your back. Isn't this a tad presumptuous, Visual Concepts? What do you take me for? You'd never catch me running away from a fucking turtle.