Just finished replaying this. Perhaps it is just my nostalgia for Rareware platformers, but the game has a lot of charm and I still enjoyed it. If they had patched the Rextro games to reward both Pagies if you surpass his hiscore on the first playthrough, if the energy cost of flying had been increased so that you can't cheese half the platforming sections, and if the collectibles had a bit of a larger range in which they can be picked up, it'd remove a lot of the more frustrating aspects of gameplay
I mean if you grew up playing banjo tooie & donkey kong 64 I would argue this is a step above them. still doesn't come close to banjo kazooie & mario 64, but it's definitely over-hated.
dr puzz was boring as hell, but i liked trowzer, rextro, and capital b as characters