A playthrough of Time Warner Interactive's 1994 license-based platformer for the Sega Genesis, Sylvester and Tweety in Cagey Capers.

Played through on the default (82%) difficulty level.

Sylvester and Tweety in Cagey Capers marked the first time that these two of Warner Bros. most iconic cartoon characters starred in a video game of their own. It's a platformer with a bit of a twist - rather than simply going left-to-right to reach a goal, Sylvester has to follow Tweety through each of the stages attacking him until he's worn down and flies off to his final resting position. When Tweety Bird is surrounded by blue arrows, he can easily be snatched and eaten, thus marking the end of the stage.

Of course there are several things that attempt to get in between Sylvester and his irritatingly cute snack: along with random environmental hazards, Granny is on hand with a broom waiting to beat some obedience into the cat, Hippety Hopper and Hector (the 'roided up bulldog) are only too happy to provide a beat down, and even Tweety himself can assume his terrifyingly mutated form to eat Sylvester whole.

As a game that intends to provide kids with more of what they love from TV, the game is solid. The graphics are extremely faithful to the show, and are loaded with neat little details and animations to further the illusion of paying the cartoon. The few voice clips that are here are clear and sound like they were sampled directly from show recordings, and the environments themselves all carry the feel of the program extraordinarily well.

For older games, or those not totally enamored with the show, it's still charming, but probably not quite as satisfying. Even with the cool power-ups, every stage has the same goal, chase Tweety, claw at him violently, chase him again, solve a simple box-pushing "puzzle", chase again, and eat. The points count up, and then you move onto a new stage to repeat the process again. It controls well and it's pretty easy, but it doesn't last long. It's far more about style than substance.

And it has certainly got a lot of style.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.

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