This game is targeted to young players. This is a 3D lateral view platformer where the player controls one of those little blue people through 20 levels in order to save his friends captured by the evil Gargamel. Levels features forest, icy plains, volcano undergrounds, Gargamel's castle, the Smurf's village, and so on. The adventure itself is split in two parts, one being a simple tutorial while the second parts represents the game itself.
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Though a somewhat positive memory from my childhood, I never beat this game because of how slippery the controls are and how precise some jumps and hitboxes can be, so without being able to read and knowing how to save, little me just gave up and played the same levels (and the baby mode) over and over a bunch of times. Turns out it was very short, but just difficult in a very tedious manner. Those early levels are colorful and nice, but then we enter some random territory like mines and it quickly loses novelty. The music begins to reappear even though the game is so short. The best parts are definitely the short little 2D animations for the story. Very underwhelming for 1999, licensed games from that year were actually pretty good. Think Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue and Star Wars: Episode I - Racer.
this game is ptsd inducing for me because I remember playing the first 2 or 3 levels over and over thinking it was the entire game because I didn’t know how memory cards worked, and the one my dad had was full so I couldn’t save so I’d end up getting bored and turning off the game and then being confused why it was the same shit.
too bad the game isn’t great anyways
too bad the game isn’t great anyways