You are home alone forever...
sbc515's Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Nintendo Entertainment System) review Score: sbc515 wrote this review on July 23, 2023. 1 out of 1 Giant Bomb users found it helpful. sbc515 has written a total of 116 reviews. The last one was for Home Alone 2: Lost in New York You are Home Alone with this game. Kevin McCallister is lost in New York and must the outwit the Sticky Bandits to get back with his family. The source material grasp is very inaccurate. The first half of the movie is skipped over for some reason. Enemies make little to no sense with the game. For example, there are old ladies jumping around, trying to hit Kevin with their umbrellas. Certain enemies such as the large hotel guests and vacuum cleaners can instantly kill Kevin. Slippery physics creates more of a hassle to avoid enemies. He will slightly slip before losing momentum. Keys in this game are enemy projectiles. A first-time player will likely mistake them for an item. Useless weapons: the dart gun only stuns enemies for about three seconds. The slide can be used to kill enemies in some levels, but not all of them. The super fist gun can be wasted if the player uses it too close to the edge of the screen. The pearls only work on a couple of enemies, and it is practically useless after the first level. Unresponsive and poor controls, making something like climbing up ladders a challenge. It's not made clear which parts of the level can be jumped on and which can't. Hitbox issues: Sometimes, when an enemy comes close to hitting Kevin, it counts as a hit. The game's difficulty is completely screwed up. The Hotel, the first level, is the most difficult level due to how many one-hit kill enemies and hazards there are. Worse, there are no continues, meaning once Kevin is out of lives, you are kicked back to the first level. The Game Boy is the worst of all. The Uncle's House has some pinpoint precision jumping that has to be done in a dark room, or otherwise, Kevin falls into a bottomless pit and loses a life. You only get four hit points instead of five. The Central Park level is much longer than the other two versions, which has Kevin go through the Central Park Zoo. No explanation is given about why, and it is never mentioned again. You can actually get stuck in the second level with the bell power-up. If you jump at just the right time, you can fall off the screen and get stuck. The only way you can get out of this is by resetting the game. The graphics, while still better than the NES version, is still not that good. The lack of detail on sprites make it difficult to tell who's who.