I just played this recently for a magazine article I'm working on. It's a rather smooth running platformer: nothing revolutionary and nothing that made me want to play it, but it was enjoyable enough for as long as I could stand it. I got as far as the first boss, who I could not for the life of me kill, and so I just gave up. Like I said, there was nothing really compelling about it but nothing really terrible either.

Now, M.C. Kids-- that was a great game.

RobotGumshoe wrote:

Still will never explain why McDonalds shake enthusiast was some sort of crazy purple buttplug critter, appropriately named the grimace.

The Grimace originally had six arms, so that he could hold six shakes at once. That doesn't address why he was purple and it doesn't explain his general body-type, but I believe the general idea was that the shakes were so good, you needed to have six of them.

On a completely random note, does anyone remember the Klasky-Csupo animated McDonald's videos? Those were much better then they had any right to be. Legend of Grimace Island would have actually been an alright video game.