Reviews

This was the very first time that a Spanish company, Dro Soft in fact, gained licensing rights for a movie, and as it was a movie, an American movie and a franchise that was popular in the UK, it was distributed in the UK by Elite. Now I say the franchise was popular in the UK, the first film certainly was and I loved the first Gremlins film, but the second one is not so good as the Gremlins were more used for comic relief and thus they nor the film could not be taken seriously anymore. I'm not saying it's a terrible film because it definitely is not, but it's certainly nowhere near as good as the first one.

This game however, for me, left a lot to be desired. Sure it looked nice as Spanish games tended to be, but the gameplay was very lacklustre. You're shooting at Gremlins which sounds fun, but more often than not you are cheaply hit due to a combination of delayed controls, not being able to fire while crouching and crap jumping.

Movie license games often leaded towards mediocrity rather than greatness, Gremlins 2 is no exception.

1990 Topo Soft (Spain)
by Rafael Rodriguez and Alfonso Borro

The Gremlins sequel unlike the first in not a text adventure game but instead a sideways shoot 'em up platformer.
You play the role of Billy and basically you have to collect a few objects to build a weapon that can destroy the nasty Gremlins.

I couldn't enjoy the game much, it lacks smoothness which is so important in such a busy game. You can be accurate enough if you're character doesn't respond fast. The graphics are big and detailed (besides our Billy which looks a bit awkward) but that delays the keys response.
And because the game itself is already hard, that doesn't help much making the game appealing.