{"id":27175,"date":"2026-09-07T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=27175"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:57:42","slug":"marsupilami-2-salsa-palombia-switch-ps5-xbox-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/07\/marsupilami-2-salsa-palombia-switch-ps5-xbox-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Marsupilami 2: Salsa Palombia (Switch, PS5, Xbox X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Marsupilami is a European comic book character who is a fictional animal with leopard-like spots and a super long tail.\u00a0 He and his friends live in the jungles of South America but remains relatively obscure in the US.\u00a0 Die-hard Disney Afternoon fans like myself may remember some bumpers involving Marsupilami and he even got some shorts on Disney\u2019s Raw Toonage 90s Saturday morning cartoon.\u00a0 He\u2019s also been in a few video games and I reviewed one about five years ago<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 And here\u2019s the sequel to that.\u00a0 Some ghostly skeletons are using a magic boom box to hypnotize all the animals in the jungle, and now it\u2019s up to Marsupilami and his long tailed friends to stop them!\u00a0 Marsupilami 2: Salsa Palombia is a 2D platformer that plays very much like Donkey Kong Country.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

The game can be played solo or with two players at the same time.\u00a0 In each stage you can switch between two of the three characters, but the game dictates which ones are in each stage.\u00a0 Every playable character can run, jump, roll, and use their long tails to attack and swing from grapples.\u00a0 Each character has their own special move you can use when you press the jump button twice.\u00a0 The yellow spotted one can rocket forward and then glide down.\u00a0 The brown female one can use her tail to spin and float upwards for a bit, and the black one can encase himself in his tail like a ball and bounce around impervious to spikes.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll use those skills to defeat enemies, bypass obstacles, and collect fruit and musical notes.\u00a0 Fruit can be used to unlock special levels and notes can open up the boss battles at the end of each world.\u00a0 Also when you collect enough fruit in a level, you can replay it again in Salsa Mode.\u00a0 In this mode a combo meter builds up as you collect fruit, which allows you to get even more notes.\u00a0 Again, this game plays a LOT like Donkey Kong Country.\u00a0 So much so that if Nintendo wanted to make another game in that series and Retro Studios was busy, the folks who made this game could probably do a good job.\u00a0 Only minor problem is that it may be a bit on the short side, but it is a little bit more challenging, too.\u00a0 If you like DKC style platformers, you may want to check this one out.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marsupilami 2: Salsa Palombia is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 Defeated characters either fly off the screen or poof into smoke with a sigh, but that\u2019s about it.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 The game has three difficulty modes, one where you take two hits, three hits, or are completely invincible.\u00a0 But falling into pits is what usually gets you, so younger gamers still may need help with the trickier jumps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marsupilami is a European comic book character who is a fictional animal with leopard-like spots and a super long tail.\u00a0 He and his friends live in the jungles of South America but remains relatively obscure in the US.\u00a0 Die-hard Disney Afternoon fans like myself may remember some bumpers involving Marsupilami and he even got some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27177,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27175\/revisions\/27177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}