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You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch. And your game is really bad.
When Hollywood makes a big production movie with a subject matter that is intended for
kids, you just know they are going to make a video game about that movie. It would be
nice though to see the games made with some quality. This isn’t Soviet Russia. Video
game companies don’t have a quota set by the government, which if they fail to met
they get sent to Siberia. Our factories are more worried about quality, not quantity.
Well, it looks like they will never learn and we are left with games like this one.
This is The Grinch for the PSone.
Released to go with the big budget movie starring Jim Carrey, the game is even more of a disappointment
than the movie was. Now I love The Grinch. It is my second favorite Dr. Seuss book, behind
the Lorax, which is itself getting made into a movie. Why can’t they let my childhood
loves stay the way they are. So you are in control of The Grinch, a green, ugly and all
around nasty guy. And it is your job to destroy Christmas. It is a platformer with some elements
of puzzle games work in. You go around the world and you have some missions you complete
in whatever order you want. Although there is somewhat of an order because scattered
throughout the worlds are blueprints for some of your Grinch inventions, such as the rotten
egg gun. You find these and build them and they will help you later in the game. So you
go around locations such as Whoville and the woods and do they evil rotten things that
only the Grinch would think of doing, like smashing presents by jumping on them and shooting
rotten eggs into people windows. When did the Grinch become such a little punk? I don’t
think Dr. Seuss had the idea to make his character have the same maturity level as a 10 year
old. Oh, you breathed bad breath in my face. Now my Christmas is completely ruined. Please.
The graphics for the game look like they were programmed by blind man while he rode on a
horse, backwards, at midnight. Everything looks just basic. Dr. Seuss had imagination,
he had creativity. This game has none of that. It is almost like the developers had a copy
of Christmas themed video game design for dummies open on their desk while they worked.
And all this could have been saved had they had some of the original actors come back
and voice their characters. But no no no. That would have cost some money, and would
have required some effort. Both things the developers did their hardest to avoid. The
voice actors that they brought are, could I dare say it, even more annoying Jim Carrey
was as the Grinch. Just, just stop.
This game has nothing going for it; it is not fun in any way. The only reason I could
imagine someone buying this for another person would be because there is a storage of coal
and someone needed something to signify how bad that person has been to them. But no matter
how bad anyone has been this year, no one deserves this game. I wouldn’t touch this
game with a 39 and a half foot pole.