When I played this game for the first time those buttons were so unused it was like I had half a new controller in my hands. That's right, you used the D-pad and left shoulder button instead of the analog stick and Z-trigger. This oddball of a game had prerendered sprites in the vein of Donkey Kong Country, in a 3D plane you only moved left and right outside occasionally 'changing lanes' in a 2.5D style much like Yoshi's Story, and was one of the very rare games to use the classic SNES style holding of the N64 controller. This all combines to mean we'll probably never see another quite like this darling piece of media obscura, but that's not all bad news.

Mischief Makers is also Treasure's first game published by Enix, prior to their mega-merger with Square. Yes, I'm talking about that Treasure, of Gunstar Heroes, Sin and Punishment, and Ikaruga fame. Mischief Makers is a game developed by Treasure as their first forray outside of the Sega ecosystem and into the wild world of Nintendo 3rd parties.

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