 Here we are again with yet another Game Boy Advance title that I barely knew about that turns out to be a kickass game. Drilldozer is a good old fashioned action platformer with style and substance. The visual style here is like something from an early 2000s cartoon network show, like it was spawned in the Powerpuff Girls universe or something. The colors, the music, the energy, there's lots of great looking and varied environments throughout the game, everything here is just bursting with life, it's great. But that wouldn't matter for Squad if the game didn't have any substance behind it. Here you play as Jill who operates a Drilldozer, she's the daughter of a gang leader who was attacked and their most valued possession, the powerful Red Diamond, was stolen and it's up to her to get it back. Throughout the game you fight the head of the rival gang named Krug who's a recurring boss. There's 17 huge stages here, thankfully the inevitable tutorial at the beginning that seemingly every game made in the 21st century has now is mercifully short. You ride around in a tank and use the shoulder buttons to drill through walls, find up enemies, solve puzzles and find hidden areas. You're able to level up your drill to a certain extent the same way you'd level up your whip in a Castlevania game for example. However with the drill there's a timing mechanic you have to master to utilize the higher gears, and to the game's credit it's very easy to get the hang of. The only annoying thing is this full screen overlay that comes up every time you hold down the drill button, that kinda gets old after a while. But yeah just the simple mechanic of drilling walls and taking out enemies with your drill is the best part of Drilldozer, it's really satisfying, especially when you obtain the third gear. But more than that, the more you play this game the more you'll be smiling and nodding and saying, dang that's a pretty cool idea. Drilldozer came up with a ton of clever uses for the drill, like using it as a screwdriver to remove obstacles with the left shoulder button loosening and the right tightening. Just on a personal note here I've got kind of a thing for action platformers, I've gone through a bunch on NES and SNES and even a few on Game Boy Advance, just trying to see what makes each game unique, and to my amazement I keep finding games that are still distinctly their own. Drilldozer is certainly that, from the clever level design to the boss fights to the enemy design to of course the main mechanic of drilling stuff. There really isn't another game like this and that's the highest compliment I can give this game. The only real problem with Drilldozer is that I just wanted more. This came out late in the Game Boy Advance lifespan so it wasn't gonna get a sequel there. But why no other games anywhere else, man it's disappointing. One other thing worth mentioning is that the Drilldozer cartridge itself has a built in rumble pack so the game would have a rumble effect each time you drill. It doesn't get pretty old after a while but it's still pretty creative, it's one of two games to have that feature along with WarioWare Twisted. Anyway, yeah like I said earlier this is another game I barely knew about that I played just on a whim and it turns out to be freaking great. Drilldozer is really fun and the best way to describe it is unique. You won't find these kind of gameplay elements or the look and sound of this game anywhere else. The cartridge usually goes for $30 on eBay and Amazon, that's not too bad if you want to experience the rumble feature for yourself. But yeah Drilldozer is definitely worth playing today. Such an unexpected great game I never hear mentioned anymore.