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A simple adventure game for young players where you play Snoopy as the main
character solving various puzzles in the area. The basic idea is manipulating
objects by picking them up and dropping them at certain areas, which will result
in a new sequence to the plot. Based on one of the world's most popular comics,
it's a very disappointing game that manages to capture only one aspect of the cartoon
perfectly: the nonchalant, see-if-I-care attitude of Snoopy the complacent dog.
Granted, bringing the world of The Peanuts onto the computer screen is a big challenge,
due to the fact that the cartoon's appeal rests more on the philosophical, almost
Zen-like placid sense of humor, than on the adrenaline rush or the excitement of
adventure of most cartoons. Nonetheless, the absence of this subtle Peanuts-style
humor, coupled with a painfully cumbersome interface (Snoopy can carry and use only
one item at a time), makes the game very tedious. Although you, as Snoopy, can wander
around town and meet many Peanuts characters, none of them has anything interesting
to say, and most of the time just behave like stone statues. Puzzles, or what excuses
of them, are few, and seem to be there just for the sake of giving you something to
do, rather than having any relationship with the (thin) plot. Overall, I doubt even
die-hard Peanuts fans will be motivated enough to play the game for more than a few
minutes, let alone finishing it. |
