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As horizontally-scrolling PD shoot-'em-ups go, you don't get much better than this. With cutesy graphics heavily inspired by Rainbow Islands (let's call them a homage, shall we? Okay then, let's call them ripped off), Quick And Silva looks great and plays brilliantly.

The premise is simple. You play Quick (and a mate can play Silva, if you like) and you go from left to right through a variety of multi-platformed levels blasting everything in sight, except the bonuses which you collect. All the usual paraphernalia that makes platform games that much more challenging is here: hidden platforms, a touch of puzzling, hard-to-kill meanies. There's an impressive variety of levels, each with their own individual character, and the accompanying music doesn't, for once, make you reach for the 'sound off' option.

None of it is very original, but it's all done with such style and polish it's well worth checking out.

It might show its roots a bit and hardly pushes back any boundaries, but, hey, with graphics and simple, wholesome gameplay like this, who cares?