Aero the Acro-Bat

aka: Acrobat Kid, Aero The Acro-Bat: Rascal Rival Revenge
Moby ID: 6990
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You play as bat Aero, who have to stop the mad scientist Edgar Ektor, who is trying to rid the world of amusement and fun. So you jump through the circus-style levels, using different kinds of machines such as catapults, cannons, bubble machines, platforms, etc., collecting various power-ups such as cheese, soda, keys, clocks, etc. and avoiding lethal obstacles.

Spellings

  • アクロバットキッズ - Japanese GBA spelling

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Created and Original Design By
Design and Layout
Additional Design
  • Team Aero
Aero Team Leader
Aero Programmers
Aero Artists
Character Design
Music and SFX By
  • Fox Productions
Sound Driver By
  • Bitmasters
Produced By
Executive Producer
Directed By
Art Director
Chairman
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Critics

Average score: 73% (based on 39 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.3 out of 5 (based on 25 ratings with 1 reviews)

A badly conceived Sonic clone

The Good
Aero the Acrobat is moderately entertaining. The level design is somewhat interesting.

The Bad
Everything about this game screams of a desperate attempt to replicate Sonic with a small animal with attitude careening wildly through environments filled with hazards. Aero controls loosely, lacks any sort of defining characteristics and exists simply to...exist.

The levels, while designed competently lack any sort of finesse or defining visual styles. The color pallete of the Mega Drive is not being employed in ways that better games employed it and as such this game looks like a bad launch title for the console. In fact, games that launched with the Mega Drive such as Psy-O-Blade look far superior to this mess of a game.

The Bottom Line
I have no positive feelings toward this game whatsoever. It's a loose mess that looks like crap, plays worse and features an ugly protagonist with no character.

Genesis · by AkibaTechno (238) · 2010

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Game added by POMAH.

Wii added by Charly2.0.

Additional contributors: Foxhack.

Game added July 23, 2002. Last modified July 25, 2024.