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Entertaing game, but too short

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I picked up this game for my new Gameboy Micro- I only got it because it was one of the cheapest games I could find, and didn't have much money left over from the purchase of the Micro.

I enjoy the series the game is based on and watch it every now and them, and it's interesting to play as beloved characters. The game is based on the story Crocker's new fairy machine that proves that fairies exist. In the series, he is Timmy's teacher, and he's obsessed with proving to the world that fairies do, indeed, exist and he will show it! He builds a machine that turns the world into in anti-world with anti-fairies and even an anti-Timmy you must battle. Anti-Wanda and anti-Cosmo are there as well. It's also turned the world into Friday the 13th forever.

You must jump on the anti-fairies to gather wands to get wishes that will turn you into a few different characters (a super gardener with a leaf blower to knock down attacking flowers, a ninja with the power to jump from object to object and become invisible, a car for one of the harder levels in which you're racing along a set of tracks, and you can play as a pirate that can swing from ropes with your hook hand and such.

The game says you can play as Wanda and Cosmo, but I never saw any chance for this...who knows.

So, you go from left to right to get to the goal for each mission, bumping off anti-fairies and others along the way, getting a password when you arrive at each new level to save your progress and return later.

The graphics are decent, but the music is annoying- it's the same throughout the whole game and it's way too repetitive. The is no speaking- the characters talk via text on the screen. When you finish the game in one mode (easy, medium, or hard) you get cheat codes for special jumping powers and more things. The sound effects are fairly boring, just a few noises when you knock off anti-fairies and jump around.

You need to knock off all the anti-fairies you can to get more wands to be able to get Wanda and Cosmo to change you into the various characters- each character has his own abilities and need to be changed for different levels. There are also big wands in certain areas that give you multiple wands...when you get hit by the anti-fairies and other enemies, you lose wands, but you can pick them up and gain them back in easy mode- in medium and hard modes you can't get ALL of them back, just some. There are also other things you can pick up such as an item that makes you invincible to the enemies. I saw a small original gameboy floating in the air at one stage but didn't figure out how to jump high enough to get it.

In the end, you battle as a large animal, it's pretty funny so I won't give it away.

The problem with the game is- it's far too short. You could complete this game in easy mode in one day if you played for a few hours. There are some parts where you have to do trial and error to figure out how to get high enough or jump over a certain wall and such, and that was a nice challenge- at one point, I was downright frustrated trying to make it over a wall as the ninja. So, it's easy overall, but there are some parts where you will find yourself making mistakes to find the right combo of moves to move along.

An interesting game with some positives, but it's way too short and finishing it in a matter of days (I'd bet even young kids could finish it rather quickly) is a back drawback.

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