Marioesque

Or the clever blend of puzzles and hair raisingly, chilling battles in the kitchen of the conway estate with undead chefs whipping meat cleavers at me, while I mow em down with my shotgun in Killing time, or The Marioesque approach to a 3-d shooter's paradise that is bladeforce, lotsa secrets, but lotsa stuff to destroy!!!

Yes, it's becoming possible to do so, but the same can really be said of plenty of genres, including Mario-esque action games.

It was a platformer type game. I do not think in ^([sic]) was pengo, but more of a marioesque type platformer.

I wasn't aware that MDK2 was a Marioesque platformer...