classicgames.org - Keen Dreams

Run, jump, and throw pellets at giant potatoes to turn them into flowers.

Keen Dreams is easily the worst of the CK games, which admittedly not saying much, so elaborate I shall. First off, there's no pogo stick--blasphemy! The graphics are admittedly a step up from CK1, but the level design isn't any better. The plot is pretty lame, something about evil vegetables. Gameplay is pretty typical side scroller stuff, although I must admit that turning squash and broccoli into flowers is sort of amusing in a trippy, Brave Little Toaster sort of way. Overall, it's missing a certain je ne sais quoi (probably the pogo stick) that makes it worse than all the other Keens.

Still, it's a decent scroller; it just doesn't live up to the lofty standards that Tom Hall set for us.

Posted by Kevin on 2000-06-07

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