Gah! Sorry to hear about your Game Gear, but that's awesome that you still have the complete game with the case and manual! :)

Thank you very much! And yes; the inability to put out content consistently is the unfortunate curse of being a creative with a day-job :P Since I also do art and game development, I put a lot of my free time towards those endeavors as well. Definitely trying to be more consistent though. I even currently have a poll up for my next video :)

Alfredo I know how challenging it can be with jobs, family and more my friend! Glad you are able to try to make and post more! It’s nice to see a gamer who talks since sooo many only ever show footage haha!

@@TimRoseOfficial Thanks again my friend! And tell me about it ;P Part of the reason I started my Hidden Gems series was to talk about and expose great games that not a lot of people know about. I wanted to be more informational than simply just show footage, like most others seem to do :)

Right? It's a shame it was stuck as a Game Gear exclusive for so many years. Thank goodness for the ports :)

It’s both a platform game and metroidvania

@@Milkmanrules1032 I cannot consider this as a metroidvania because it has less similarities and it plays more of an action platformer.

@@awakenedsoul2638 What about the backtracking?

@@Milkmanrules1032 Even the old Castlevania, Metroid and Ratchet & Clank and Spyro and Jak & Daxter Games have back tracking. During those times, the genre Metroidvania was not yet born. Castlevania and Metroid are just considered action platformers. Tails Adventure lacks map, the quickness of a platformer, very short game shorter than Touhou Luna Nights, more secrets secrets are included in metroidvania be it a a tool, weapon or secret stage or a secret small hidden place and its exploration is for me a bit limited. Consider these things before you call it a full fledge metroidvania, a genre that was not yet born during the 90's.

@@awakenedsoul2638 I understand what your saying but that would mean Metroid and Castlevania (the games that started the genre in the first place) would not be Metroidvania’s also Tails Adventure may be a platform we but it could still be considered a lite-metroidvania. Maybe not a long complex one but it still has the mechanics of a metroidvania while also being a puzzle platformer. Just my opinion of course.