It's best to forget about the naff rapping parrot, and focus instead on the more innovative features of this sequel to the Dreamcast platformer. Collecting items is a given, and here blinging gold coins mean upgrades to more powerful punches and attacks. Each vibrant environment provides plenty of gameplay variants, be it bobbing down rivers or fleeing avalanches on a snowboard.

The controls are intuitive (jump and attack, that's your lot) though annoyingly, change whenever riding atop a fellow animal or vehicle (you must physically manoeuvre 360° to change direction). This is frustrating when you consider the slick speed of Kao in the main game. There's nothing new here, but the bouncy little fella certainly beefs up the number of kids' titles on the console.

Fun, no-frills platformer with the odd inventive touch. Simple enough for kids to get their little mitts sweaty.