The Powerpuff Girls: Bad Mojo Jojo

The Powerpuff Girls: Bad Mojo Jojo is a platformer based on the popular animated show, in which the player gradually gets to play as all three heroines — Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup — using their different abilities to make their way through a Townsville besieged by Mojo Jojo and his allies. Each girl has her own style of movement and attack, which keeps the game from feeling monotonous and forces the player to switch approach depending on what's happening on screen. Levels are interspersed with boss fights lifted straight from the show, requiring a different tactic than regular enemies and rewarding players who master all three sisters' abilities well. Between levels there are also short comic-strip interludes that tell the story in the spirit of the show, rewarding the player's progress with another bit of humor.

Visually the game stays very faithful to the show's style — characters and backgrounds are rendered in bright colors with bold outlines, so on the GBC screen it looks clean and instantly recognizable as Powerpuff Girls. The level design is straightforward, the pace is quick, and the short levels are built to suit the younger audience the title was primarily aimed at. The music picks up motifs close to the show's atmosphere and keeps a playful, energetic mood throughout, which, together with the short stretches between levels, creates a pleasant rhythm well suited to playing in small chunks.

As a licensed game for children, Bad Mojo Jojo didn't draw much attention from the specialist press, but among fans of the show and GBC collectors, thanks to solid execution and the recognizable WayForward studio, it earned a reputation as an above-average entry in the genre of turn-of-the-millennium licensed platformers. Today, fans of the show often mention it as one of the games that genuinely tried to preserve the character and humor of the source material rather than just mechanically repeating a proven platforming formula.

Why play it: For fans of the show and GBC collectors, it's a solidly crafted licensed platformer that, thanks to studio WayForward, preserved the character and humor of the source material better than most similar games.