Yet another great license wasted...
User Rating: 5 | Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King GBA
Very sad, since I love orginal "Nightmare Before Christmas", in fact I was expecting this game to be rather class "B" but still it was to give me a taste of this nightmarish world alas it has not very much to offer even for dedicated Tim Burton's fans. Beginning is preety interesting, the plot is placed many Halloweens before Jack's issue with Sandy Claws (a very hilarious misspelling for Santa Claus, don't you think?) and it brings some light on how Jack and Oogie met in the first place. Oogie claims to be the scariest of them all and hearing about some even scarier Jack The Pumpin King he plots to kidnap him and infest the Hallowen town with swarm of bugs. He orders our well known "trick or treat" trio to do so but ofcourse they mistake Sally for Jack (as they had Easter Bunny for Santa in the movie). Then the Mayor asks Jack to investigate this misterious bug plague and the game begins.
First impression is preety good, I thought that GBA got its own Medievil, but the truth is far from it. Levels are big, Castlevania-like, but boring and if that wasn' enought every of them is composed from the same elements (ladders, ledges...) just themed in different ways, so over the course of the game you are basicaly scaling the same obstacles but in different colors. There are some items to collect, but overall gameplay is repetitive and nauseing, it develops very little as you progress. Also the entire game looks and sounds more like the first generation of GBA games than that from 2005.
If you are realy eager to play this game better rent it, even if you are in love with the grotesque world of the movie, but you are also a consious, demanding player, it's more than sure you'll get bored preety quick.
