Travel the world in the guise of a chubby French chef and capture rebellious vegetables by stunning them with flour bags, collecting them in a net and then depositing them in a cage. That's the plot.

JD gave this cute platformer 76% (Amiga Power 39) only a couple of months ago, and used some rather uncharacteristic phrases in his review:

"I didn't bat an eyelid when a rogue avocado reversed my controls."

"The fact that you can move straight through some walls and platforms, while other, identical ones block yur progress, was an irritation, but only a minor one."

"Even the slippy-slidey ice worlds... seem perfectly legitimate in context."

Control reversal? Indeterminate scenery? Slippy-slidey ice worlds on level one? 76%? Good job he's taken a holiday, that's all I can say. Let's hope he's back to his sensible self when he returns.

Okay, so Pierre (the chef) is cute. And the running around collecting vegetables against the clock is alright. And the platforms are fairly well thought out. And the moving around to different countries every few levels does add a bit of variety. And the CD32 controller has been fairly well programmed with one button to jump, another to lob flour and a third for the vegetable-netting. But, this is still just another cutesy platformer with all the irritations of the genre barring "up-to-jump". It even blacks out the screen and displays a huge white "LOADING" sign between levels. Grrr.

It's an alright-ish game but suffers so many convictions from the Kangaroo Court that it's hard not to drop it down from the original score. So I won't resist the temptation.