Jelly Boy
Jelly Boy is a single-player 2D platformer with action and puzzle elements, built around a shapeshifting protagonist made of jelly, published for SNES (and later Game Boy). Gameplay is side-scrolling; Jelly Boy jumps and punches enemies with an extending, stretchy fist.
Availability: Nintendo Switch Online — Super Nintendo Entertainment System app (Nintendo Classics)
This guide documents the game's main progression and structure; some specific details are still being verified and are noted where relevant.
Controls
The D-pad handles directional movement, walking left and right, with running achieved by holding a direction. Jelly Boy attacks by punching enemies with his extending fist.
Collectibles / Items
Musical notes restore health; fruit grants extra lives.
Levels / Worlds
The SNES version has eight stages per world; the Game Boy port has six stages per world. Each world's levels culminate in a boss fight; defeating the boss advances the player to the next world. Every level contains a hidden puzzle piece; once all of a world's puzzle pieces are collected, that world's boss becomes accessible/unlocked.
Transformations / Power-ups
Jelly Boy can transform into various objects/vehicles via power-ups to solve level-specific challenges, including a hot air balloon, a submarine, a skateboard, and a pogo stick. The Helicopter transformation is required to beat the Toy World boss and can fire pellets straight ahead to damage enemies. The Flamethrower transformation lets Jelly Boy burn enemies and melt ice cube obstacles.
Progression / Required Objectives
The game is organized into six worlds; each world requires collecting all hidden puzzle pieces across its levels to unlock that world's boss fight. Full completion of all six worlds unlocks a final confrontation with the toy factory owner (the game's overall antagonist).
Bosses
Six world-ending bosses exist (one per world), plus a final boss (the factory owner) after all six are cleared. Individual boss names beyond the general "Toy World boss" reference were not confirmed from sources accessed in this pass.
Still confirming
- Names of the six worlds beyond "Toy World."
- Names of individual bosses.
- Full list of transformation types beyond the five/six confirmed (balloon, submarine, skateboard, pogo stick, helicopter, flamethrower).
- Whether the SNES and Game Boy versions differ in boss content beyond stage-per-world count.