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I'm a big fan of the NES game despite its shortcomings but the SNES game is just so bland.
The physics feel too weighty, the controls are bad (how am I supposed to do a running jump punch when running is Y, B is jump and A is punch? There was NOTHING wrong with having punch and run on the same button like on NES, you don't need to get cute just because the controller has more buttons).
The camera is so bad that you constantly have to re-adjust it with the L-R button, in some cases I even keep the button held just to see what's coming ahead
The musics and SFX are super bland, getting hit has no sound, the invicibililty power up has no music
Enemies are also super bland, at least in the NES version it felt like half of the enemies were romans or at least humans, here it's like "hedgehog, bats and birds galore", and of course the oh so classic euro platformer "drops of water hurt you" (to be fair the NES had a couple of those but here they're everywhere in the caves) and other shit you can't see coming like spikes appearing randomly from the floor
The level progression makes the game feel drawn out as well, it's usually something like "level theme (forest, ice, etc)-> cave -> level theme again -> cave again". Having the thematic levels grouped together would have made it feel better

I wouldn't be so disappointed if I didn't like the NES game so much, despite being a super short game with basically only 2 (lame) bosses it's such a fun game