Reception and Legacy
Jumping Flash! received positive review scores after its release, including a 4.1/5 from GamePro, a 4/5 from Next Generation Magazine, and an 8.6/10 from Electronic Gaming Monthly. The game was scored a 34 out of 40 by Famitsu, ranking it among the magazine's top 120 Playstation games of all time in 2000. IGN's original review gave Jumping Flash! a 7.5/10, stating that despite some the relatively small worlds and easy difficulty, it is "a great, genre-pushing game". Game Revolution cited the same complaints, but calls the graphics "mind blowing" and the game itself "totally unique", giving it an A- score. Albert Kim of Entertainment Weekly stated, "Perhaps the most euphoric sensation comes at the height of a turbocharged jump, when you can look below and see the world quietly slip away."
Despite its innovation and critical acclaim, other 3D platformers such as Super Mario 64 would go on to become a standard for the genre. In 2007, Matt Casamassina of IGN described Jumping Flash! as the third most underrated video game of all time. Jumping Flash! did manage to produce a few sequels. Jumping Flash! 2, also developed by Exact, was released worldwide on PlayStation a year later. Two loose sequels, Robbit Mon Dieu on PlayStation and Pocket MuuMuu compatible for the PocketStation, were released exclusively in Japan by Sugar and Rockets.
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