This is a clunky little beast, with some annoying mechanical quirks, irritating tasks, and boring enemies, however overall it's a decent enough game. Shrek must complete various tasks in each level, and of course he can fart and burp lavishly in order to complete many of these tasks.

I occasionally get motion sickness from games, and this is the only example of a GameCube game that did it to me, so I don't know what's going on there, but I did feel that there was something oddly fast and buttery about Shrek's movement. He is too fast, like a whippet (if a whippet could also descend from high falls much like a floating candy floss cloud with a single bouncy ball inside it). I sent him off of ledges a little bit too easily. I am sorry.

One thing I liked a lot was the Monty Python-esque enemy voice lines. They're really just guys. And they don't know what's going on. I like that, it gives the slight feel that you're in a very small pantomime, performing your actions, cueing in the boys.

Shrek also has a really mad, wide-mouthed, dead-eyed animation for his burp, which there is a permanent button to trigger. Because of this, there's probably an hour of fun to be had burping continuously alone for the burp-loving child, or me, amused for a reasonable length of time by the fact that Shrek can interrupt his burps with: more burps.

It's ok, this game. It's alright.

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Here's my full look at EVERY Shrek game: I Played Every Shrek Game

Being one of my only two physical GameCube games, I was excited to play this at first, since most of my other games were all downloaded to a USB thanks to modding.

Because I'm used to that I assumed the virtual memory cards used for the emulated games also worked on the physical ones, but evidently not.

This means that I probably would've completed this game if not for this, since I was awake all night trying to complete it in one sitting until I eventually got bored and/or tired.

Based on the 2001 movie (before it got 3 sequels and two spin-off movies), Shrek Extra Large is a 3D platformer that's more or less a completely different game with Shrek's face in it.

It's actually a lot of fun and if I were able to save it and take breaks from it I may have rated it higher but it does get tedious and annoying especially because there's no good walkthrough guides.

Shrek is quite floaty and the controls take surprisingly long to get used to.
The options don't really do much and that's annoying.

Definitely worth playing if you're a fan of silly 3D platformers since you don't even need to watch the movie to play this.
It does definitely scream early Xbox platformer and for that I love it.

Unfortunately despite this game making me realise I need a memory card for my Wii (unless I figure out how to make VMCs for physical games) I only have one other physical GCN game so I probably won't bother buying one unless I somehow find one that isn't ludicrously expensive...