When Wolverine starts moving across the screen, it's immediately clear this isn't just a straightforward beat-em-up. The platformer tries to be something more, but that ambitious vision crashes into the reality of the Mega Drive in 2021, when fans decided to resurrect an old game by bringing it back to life.

It's a classic side-scroller featuring a mutant you recognize by the fact that everything gets solved with claws. The levels progress linearly forward, sometimes you drop down, sometimes you jump up. The goal is simple: reach the end and take out as many enemies as possible along the way. The game runs at twenty-five frames per second, which was standard back in the nineties, but today it feels like older computer animation — not exactly smooth.

The controls are snappy and match what I'm used to from original games of that era. Jumps work, attacks can be combined, the occasional health or energy pickup appears. The problem lies in the impact — when you strike, the effect isn't quite satisfying. The claws connect without the right weight, without that punch. Enemies are quite durable, so you spend long stretches repeatedly mashing the same button. This isn't a game, it's solitaire on a console.

The fundamental question is: why remember it at all? Wolverine on Mega Drive isn't a legend, and this revival isn't the reason it should become one. The graphics are decent, the music respectable, but there's nothing to set it apart from a dozen similar games featuring other mutants and heroes from the nineties. It's more of a fan exercise than work that has something new to say.

Today you can play it in a browser through an emulator, and the quiet question lingers: should I? If you have a deep passion for Mega Drive platformers and collect every Marvel character title, sure. If you're looking for an engaging game to actually play, you can skip it without regret. It's not bad, just unnecessary.