Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk

The sixth Dizzy game is a bit of an oddball in the series, the final to be produced in the original budget format before ‘Fantastic Dizzy’ launched a larger, more complex and more expensive style and aimed it at game consoles. Based on exactly the same format as the previous year’s ‘Magicland Dizzy,’ right down to recycling the graphics and some of the ideas, ‘Prince of the Yolkfolk’ primarily acts as a parting gift to fans before the franchise spirals out of control and inevitably falls through its over-ambition. A great deal of thought was evidently put into this game’s production to make it as appealing as possible to the fans, and it’s easy to assume that ...