13th August 2011, 4:12 PM
SNES
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Pinocchio - It's a platformer. It's kind of short and easy too; though not the shortest game around, this won't exactly take very long. There are only nine levels, and many aren't too long. At least there's some variety, though, as many of the levels have unique gameplay mechanics -- one's an annoying Simon minigame, one a single-screen battle, several are 'explore a large level and find stuff', one's undersea with an interesting gravity-flip mechanic (you don't swim, you stick to either the floor or ceiling), one a challenging chase, one a sort of minigame-like chase, one a more straightforward platformer level... decent game, apart from how short it is. The graphics are quite nice, and the animation is really good. It's a good looking game for sure, though as a 1996 release you'd hope it'd look nicer than early titles.
Some things are odd about it, though... some things I'd think would be levels aren't, and instead are just in the text cutscenes between levels; there are no real bosses (unless you count that chase at the end as one); and you play as Pinocchio in eight levels and Jiminy Cricket in just one... and that's the single-screen-ish fight stage. And yet he has a floating mechanic with his umbrella. Um, why? He doesn't go anywhere. I assume that originally there were going to be more stage(s) with him, but something was cut... Anyway though, decent little game, though certainly short. I wish there was more to it and a password system. Oh, and more Jiminy Cricket stages. And no annoying Simon-esque "press the right buttons in the right order on cue" stage, that one's a real pain. But still, decent overall.
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Pinocchio - It's a platformer. It's kind of short and easy too; though not the shortest game around, this won't exactly take very long. There are only nine levels, and many aren't too long. At least there's some variety, though, as many of the levels have unique gameplay mechanics -- one's an annoying Simon minigame, one a single-screen battle, several are 'explore a large level and find stuff', one's undersea with an interesting gravity-flip mechanic (you don't swim, you stick to either the floor or ceiling), one a challenging chase, one a sort of minigame-like chase, one a more straightforward platformer level... decent game, apart from how short it is. The graphics are quite nice, and the animation is really good. It's a good looking game for sure, though as a 1996 release you'd hope it'd look nicer than early titles.
Some things are odd about it, though... some things I'd think would be levels aren't, and instead are just in the text cutscenes between levels; there are no real bosses (unless you count that chase at the end as one); and you play as Pinocchio in eight levels and Jiminy Cricket in just one... and that's the single-screen-ish fight stage. And yet he has a floating mechanic with his umbrella. Um, why? He doesn't go anywhere. I assume that originally there were going to be more stage(s) with him, but something was cut... Anyway though, decent little game, though certainly short. I wish there was more to it and a password system. Oh, and more Jiminy Cricket stages. And no annoying Simon-esque "press the right buttons in the right order on cue" stage, that one's a real pain. But still, decent overall.