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Lead Snoopy on a grand adventure through worlds full of imagination to help him find Charlie Brown and all of his friends!
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Snoopy's Grand Adventure follows the famous beagle through six world of his imagination, as he takes part in a game of hide and seek with Charlie Brown and his friends. Each world contains three to four levels, plus a boss level. Each level contains alternate routes and paths to find, with jellybeans to collect and Beagle Scouts to find. The platforming is very basic and easy, though there are some creative ideas in the later areas of the game. You can unlock power-ups, such as Beagle Scout Leader costume, which allows Snoopy to climb vines, and the Masked Marvel costume, which lets Snoopy break through certain walls.
The soundtrack is surprisingly well done, and has a few memorable themes. Graphics are serviceable, but the characters themselves match the look of the recent movie quite well. Sadly there are issues with the framerate dropping in later levels, and when you collect certain items. A second player can join in and control Woodstock to assist with opening new paths and distracting enemies, but I was disappointed that there was no Wiimote pointer support for the Wii U version.
Overall, despite a few technical issues and the fact the game is rather short (and feels like an extra world was removed, since the game ends rather abruptly), it's a solid effort. Younger players would probably enjoy cutting their platforming teeth on this mellow game, and older players can help out using Woodstock. Otherwise, you may find more satisfaction with the likes of Yoshi's Woolly World or Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze.
My Best Buy number: 0236905599
I would recommend this to a friend!
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![Pokemon Movies 1-3 [SteelBook] [Blu-ray]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/4832/4832702_sa.jpg)
Three great Pokemon movies in one limited edition collection on Blu-ray. In Pokemon: The First Movie, the lab-created Pokemon Mewtwo wreaks havoc among the "pocket monsters". In Pokemon: The Movie 2000, Ash, Misty and Tracey venture to Shamouti Island, only to encounter rare new Pokemon friends. And in Pokemon 3 The Movie, Ash and his Pokemon buddies must liberate his mother from a crystallized prison. In English and Japanese with English subtitles.
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Great widescreen presentation... but not much else
on February 8, 2016
Posted by: ilikeshorts1998
Having grown up with the Pokemon franchise, it had been disappointing that the earlier movies in the series were never released to home video in widescreen, always in a cropped fullscreen. With this release, we finally get the first three movies presented in widescreen, but sadly, at a cost of virtually everything else.
The movies themselves look good, at least as well as animated movies nearly twenty years old can look. They have been cleaned up a bit for the blu-ray release, but don't expect restoration on the level of Disney here. They were movies made on a budget, and it still shows, with some fuzzy lines and a bit of artifacting, though admittedly looking better than previous DVD releases.
The first feature, Mewtwo Strikes Back, is still difficult to sit through, with a lot of strange editing on the part of the dubbing team and the confusing and ever changing goal Mewtwo is working towards, not to mention some cringe inducing lines. The second feature, The Power of One, fares quite a bit better, with some good jokes and clever moments, but still feels like a leftover plot from a video game, with Ash having to collect three trinkets to stop a catastrophe. And you'll be hard pressed to find a Pokemon fan who won't agree that the third feature, Spell of the Unown, is by far one of the best movies in the franchise, with a great, interesting plot, fun dialogue, and some sincerely touching moments.
While that takes care of the movies themselves, what about the extras? Sad to say, there are none. The commentaries and bonus features from previous DVD releases have been removed entirely, but by far the most egregious omission is the removal of the Pikachu mini-movies that would play before the feature. It's bizarre that they would be removed, considering they were considered part of the film itself, and it's not like there was space lacking on a BLU-RAY. To add insult to injury, the credits for the mini-movies still roll at the end of the feature film. Not cool, TPC, not cool.
In the end, you get a cleaned up widescreen presentation for the main feature films, but in exchange you lose the extras and mini-movies of previous DVD releases. You'll have to decide for yourself if it's worth the trade-off.
My Best Buy number: 0236905599
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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