Hello hello, new member here with a request to help identify an old arcade game from the early 1990s. Wouldn't have been any later than 1995.
It was a side scroller, 3D isometric viewpoint where you controlled a dude in a fedora armed with a gun (upgradeable, I think), making your way through environments and shooting enemies. You could get a dynamite power up that allowed you to lob handfuls of it around very rapidly. Stages seemed to be forests, jungles, mountains and the like.
For a long time I thought it might be Growl, but I've sat through a playthrough and it's definitely not - the main sprite in my game was smaller and always armed with a gun. Similar in look to Grant in the Genesis/MegaDrive version of Jurassic Park.
The defining memory I have of it is one enemy in particular - a killer tree with a face on the front and a long tendril that swept around trying to snag you. If it clipped you, that was it - you'd be dragged into its mouth and insta-killed. That bugger is the reason I rage quit playing as a frustrated young teenager, but I'm hoping somebody else can help me figure out what game this was so I can finally put this to rest!
If anybody here can help, I would much appreciate it :)
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