Peter Pan: The Motion Picture Event

"He grew up and made this game"

Introduction
When I heard about this movie, I just thought ''well, that's a movie I'll never see''. Unfortunately, appears that the game is even worse than I had imagined.

Gameplay
As good points, I must say that you can play as Peter Pan, and that's all. The controls are hard to understand (just imagine, jumping is made by pressing the L button) and don't help you in most of the times, since you think you may be hitting your opponent and most of the times you are not even touching him. So, how do you know? Sometimes you can see numbers flying above your head (or your opponent's head!), those are the damage you caused. However, most of the times you won't see those, so you don't know if you really made damage or not... and, above all, how do you explain that your most powerful enemies are... bats? I mean, I've easily defeated tons of different enemies, but I could never defeat 3 bats that appear on a certain section of the game. But this game is not only fights... Until the place in which I played this game, I also found some quests you MUST perform, like catching a certain ammount of faeries with a cup (really hard, since the controls aren't very responsive at all) or dodging cannon balls. There are also some sections which may seem like a rpg to you, however they are quite strange, for example a certain character asks you to get his arrows and while you are searching for them, you see him saying ''thanks for getting my arrows'', and that's not quite nice as you haven't even spotted any arrows at all... Also, during the conversations you can see images from the characters, who look exactly like the ones from the movie, but that doesn't seem nice since the dialogues are quite empty and uninteresting. And finally, this game has passwords after each level, meaning that you will need to have some paper near you when playing so that you can write the passwords there, which is kinda old-fashioned...

Story
As you may imagine, this game has exactly the same story as the movie it was based in. That is, the real Peter Pan story, as it was written in the book and had never been seen in a movie up to now.

Graphics/Sound
The graphics of the game seem to me perfectly awful, as most of the times you won't even be able to understand what's that thing that is just in front of your character (they say ''Peter, jump over the dog'', well, was THAT a dog?). As for the sound, it isn't good either, I guess I can even consider that there isn't any sound at all, LOL.

Play Time/Replayability
If you manage to pass across all the awful stuff that I said up to now and play the game, I don't think that you will spend much time playing it. I mean, it will surely take you a lot of time to finish it, but it's just because of the many bugs that you will find, and once you made it (if ever -_- ) you won't have anything else to do except for putting this game away.

Final Recommendation
Not a nice game. Please make yourself a favor and don't play it.

Reviewer's Score: 1/10, Originally Posted: 04/25/04