I was in the mood to play a shitty game yesterday so I gave Harley's Humongous Adventure for the SNES the ol' college try. (I played at a friend's house, so there's no stream.)
Honestly, it was nowhere near as bad as I'd remembered. I mean, it's still thoroughly mediocre, with unoriginal gameplay and exceptionally bland graphics, but it also was not without its charm. Occasionally it makes fun use of its premise (being shrunken in a regular house) with things such as terrain formed of open binders (complete with chomping center ring) and staplers that act like springboards (ejecting a staple every time you land on them). There was an effort made to include some variety in the game, in the form of a couple of timed levels, a level where you drive a tank, and one bit where you have to push a sponge into bath water, then run on it to work up foam until you generate a large enough bubble to ride to the upper part of the stage. You can find ammo for a variety of weapons that behave in different ways (nails, marbles, thumbtacks, rubber bands, etc), and choosing the right weapon for the right situation while managing you ammo isn't as annoying as I thought it would be.
It's too bad everything looks like ass, though. The sprites seem to be trying to look like they're made of clay, but their design is more grotesque and off-putting than anything else. There's one boss who you have to fight several times, but each time you destroy more of his body. After you obliterate his arms and legs, you blow off the top half of his head (which is replaced by a cannon for the final encounter). Weird stuff.
The game's not overly difficult, especially once I realized I could climb walls using the jetpack button (a move that's necessary to progress in one level but which the game does nothing to inform you about). You are rewarded for exploring with lives, ammo and power-ups, but eventually you can stock up enough lives and weapons to not feel pressured into searching every nook and cranny (lives stop accumulating after 9, a trait that has always bugged me). I doubt I'll have any reason to ever come back to this game again, but I've always been a fan of platformers and this one was at least somewhat entertaining.