Story time. This is recent as of 2023, July 17 to be exact. I was considering whether or not to either play this game or Manhunt (An M rated game) but after some thinking I thought I would be doing justice to play this game in particular. Why? No reason, stray away from the mindless playtime I’ve spent with violent games and Tetris and actually try to learn about some important aspects of life. By that I mean letters, and such I bring to you this review, on emulation, Sesame Street : Elmo’s Letter Adventure. 

Story : 0 (N/A)????

The game rarely has a story and it’s just collecting specific letters that a character wants. I mean it’s Sesame Street, you want a rock n roll story then I am not sure what to tell you. 

Story is N/A at the moment. 

Graphics : 9

The graphics look pretty good actually for a kid’s game. They actually look like the characters from the game, the backgrounds look clean, the animations doesn’t look bad and the area does look like Sesame Street at least. Animation is pretty good but the movement feels a bit too heavy, a little tanky.

The intro of the game is pretty good. Little it of a fuzzy look but it looks pretty good. The “menu” of Sesame Street looks like pretty good with some 2D objects like the balloons and houses. 

The characters, though limited, do look like the characters from their respective properties. Elmo looks like an anorexic red slender man baby whose head looks like a weird looking lollipop. Cookie Monster looks like Cookie Monster, Grover looks like himself but malnourished, Big Bird looks more or so like himself and Ernie, his hair looks like there’s some white pixelated areas that are appeared to be missing colored black. Overall, the characters do resemble their puppet counterparts from the tv show. 

The stages are well done to be honest, from being up in space to collecting items from a farm. Pffft even going underwater they did a decent job, except for the mermaids that looks ugly and horrible. 

The space level has some decent star sprites and the planets and asteroids are decent to look at. The spaceship and rover, or well six wheeled buggy, that Elmo drives doesn’t look too blocky. The planet or asteroid themselves don’t look bad when roaming with the rover. 

The farm is just a bunch of orchards and a few chickens around, sometimes has a feel of repetition of the background. Though when starting there is a bit of frame drop when Elmo is jumping on a pogo stick. 

The underwater level is well made for a children’s game with the bubbles and seaweed. Only issue is Ernie and the mermaids looking iffy.

The graphics are a surprisingly 9 out of 10

Sound : 10

The sound is pretty good. It’s a more mellow tune and happy campy music to have that Sesame Street feel. The voices are similar if not the same as the characters of the show during that time. Not much else to say about this. 

Sound is a 10 out of 10. Music is pretty good for the game and characters sound on par by the cast, if not but the cast. 

Depth : 2

It’s a learning game. There’s not much to do other than collecting the letters on the same levels but different designs. It’s basically a collect-a-thon and nothing else. I it’s just a fairly quick game and nothing else. 

The levels had a sense of freedom but I was lied to. It felt more like a rail shooter type trail where you can only go forward and a little bit of back space if you miss a letter. Felt very restricting not gonna lie. 

What throws me off is the bonus stages. You’re in outer space, at a farm collecting a letter. How is there a farm in outer space?!?!?!? Someone make sense to this please. I’m so confused. 

Depth is a 2. It’s an easy game, no variations of levels, but fun for the kids under 5!

Difficulty : 1

The game is fairly easy for a people over the age of 5. It’s a collect a thon. I don’t know what else to say. The difficulties only increase the number of letters to collect and less mistakes to make, nothing else. The controls are tad heavy like moving left or right is clunky, sometimes picking up a letter the game grabs the one after the initial letter you’re grabbing. It only happened to me twice but I’m just pointing it out. The controls are very loose on terms of collecting letters. You can be like 4 feet away or something and still grab the letter even if you don’t touch it. Probably to make it easier for the kids. 

It’s a 1. Too easy for people who know the alphabet. 

Addictive : 2 … 7 for kids

The game for kids might give them hours of fun but for me… I wanted to quit. It bored me, I wasn’t interested, I was only playing this game as a joke to review but I didn’t expect it to be a boredom. I don’t know what I got into but I did it. 

It’s a 2 for me. Probably a 7 for kids 

I didn’t expect to play this game but I wanted to make a joke about it after seeing it from Vizzed website. I was like “hey let me do this review it might be funny” and it wasn’t. It was either this or Manhunt and I doubt I’ll do a review on that anytime soon. Either way I enjoyed the game, not gonna lie. It outgrew me so quickly though and wanted to put it down but I did it. Here’s the ratings

My rating : 6.5 out of 10. (8 out of 10 for kids) 

Review rating : 4.8 out of 10 for adults.