The Woolie, having not even earned herself a name, perhaps unsurprisingly turns out to be the least defined as a character. The four main characters mostly have a distinct angle as well, Bubsy a smug and self-absorbed hero, Virgil leaning into typical nerd stereotypes, and Arnold always anxious about needing to get back into action. There are some actual humorous lines, the game spacing out things like jokes about being in a video game so that they can land better than if the characters were constantly acknowledging their fictional nature.
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In a series known for its motor-mouth protagonist this actually ends up giving the quips more room to breathe, and even in the game’s two cutscenes the dialogue has the kind of silliness appropriate for a children’s cartoon.
When you start a stage you’ll hear a one-liner from the character before the action kicks off and after that the character won’t speak unless they die. The neurotic Arnold the armadillo joins Bubsy, Virgil, and the Woolie as the fourth character you’ll play as in Bubsy: Paws on Fire!, each character playing in a different manner. Poly and Ester feel like they impact the plot more since they get Bubsy and his friends to head out while also providing one of their Woolie underlings to serve as the game’s third playable character for the regular stages. Unfortunately, Oinker is barely a presence at all and it can end up easy to forget why you’re even on this adventure during play as up until the final world things barely connect to his plans and you only even see his face when you reach that final boss battle. The two-headed queen of the Woolie alien race Poly and Ester contact Bubsy to alert him about the actions of Bubsy II’s main villain Oinker, the literal capitalist pig grabbing animals from all around the universe for his zoo. Bubsy’s nephew and niece Terry and Terri run the game’s shop, the player is able to play as the scientist vole Virgil Reality despite him never having appeared in a video game before, and the plot of the adventure actually kicks off when one former foe of Bubsy’s alerts him to the actions of another. Bubsy: Paws on Fire! is the second attempt by the wise-cracking anthropomorphic bobcat to endear himself to players after the long disappearance, and this time around, it actually manages to somewhat work.īubsy: Paws on Fire! is actually a remarkably reverent new installment in the series, containing many callbacks to previous games and even the failed pilot for a Bubsy television series.
This certainly seemed like it would be a one-and-done revival attempt back in 2017, but two years later and it seems the Bubsy brand still has life left in it after the revival. That infamy made it feel a little inexplicable when the franchise was revived after over 20 years of silence with Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back, a game that ended up having its own design problems that kept it from catching on.
Over time, Bubsy’s platform game adventures accrued quite a negative reputation, and with some instances like Bubsy 3D it was well earned.
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