You play this game as the Private Investigator, Eddie Valliant, while Roger Rabbit wanders around the scenery behind you. Your job is to search the city for clues, items and punchlines to jokes which will be your only defense should the Weasels catch up to poor Roger. Except for these Weasels (and birds flying overhead), Roger is more or less invincible as a toon. That means for most of the gameplay, he will be ignored. Should the Weasels appear in an area with you however (with an alarm sounding as they get close), Roger will go bug-eyed and try to run away. It is then up to Eddie to keep the Weasels away from Roger or engage in knock-knock jokes should they happen to catch him.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit on NES is rough. It tries to be an open-world adventure game, but finding clues is insanely annoying, and you gotta talk to the same people over and over in the same places. The driving sections are awful, the combat is janky, and honestly, even as a big Roger Rabbit fan, this game seriously bummed me out. It had so much potential, but it just doesn't deliver!
I played this game when I was younger and it was hard as fuck for no reason. Decided to look at a play through a few months ago and my ass would have never finished this game either way it’s complicated as fuck.
This game made no sense to me as a kid but I still rented it multiple times from Blockbuster. I don’t know how anyone is supposed to figure out what to do in this game without a guide but it gets an extra star cause you can just walk around and punch people. Also the music is burned into my brain.
Avn review was better than this
“I’m gonna nail roger rabbit to the cross”
Ambitious but a mess of early open ended design that loses the potential of its original movie license.
Ambitious but a mess of early open ended design that loses the potential of its original movie license.
Many interesting ideas. All of them terribly executed.