Wiz 'n' Liz: The Frantic Wabbit Wescue

About Wiz 'n' Liz: The Frantic Wabbit Wescue

Wiz 'n' Liz (1993) is Raising Hell Software's frantic, enemy-free Mega Drive platformer in which two wizards race the clock to rescue "wabbits" lost to a spell gone wrong on the planet Pum.

Wiz 'n' Liz: The Frantic Wabbit Wescue in Depth

On the magical planet of Pum, a group of "wabbits" has been spirited away by a spell gone awry, and the wizards Wiz and Liz must rescue them. A humorous, cutesy platformer, it has no enemies apart from some end-of-level bosses. Levels are divided into eight worlds, each with its own graphical style and music. Wiz, Liz or both run through the landscape collecting wabbits against a strict time limit; each rescued wabbit releases a floating letter, and the player must spell out the magic word shown at the top of the screen, then rescue the rest, who now release fruit, stars and clocks that add time.

The time limit starts at three minutes and resets only when the character dies, though a glowing orange orb in the last ten seconds adds thirty seconds. At the end of each stage, collected fruit is mixed in a cauldron, producing bonus points, a minigame, a weird graphical effect, a change in the wabbits' colours, "Absolutely Nothing" or silliness such as a fake "Game Over" followed by a sheepish "Only joking...". Other Psygnosis characters, including Puggsy and the Lemmings, make cameo appearances. MegaZone called it "cute, original and very, very fast".

Making Wiz 'n' Liz: The Frantic Wabbit Wescue

Raising Hell Software developed it for the Sega Mega Drive and Psygnosis published it in 1993, with an Amiga version by Lunatic Software following. Reviews of the Amiga version were generally positive.