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.