Home Alone is NOT fun!
Home Alone, the 1990 holiday comedy starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. When I was growing up, this movie was a great treat to watch during the holiday season. There has been many game adaptions of the movie. Gameboy, NES, Sega Master System. But the game I remember playing was on the Super Nintendo. The game really was a Nightmare before Christmas. I'm telling you that this game is really horrible! And I'll tell you why.
The point of the game is to collect all of the fortune and drop it down a laundry chute that leads to a vault in the basement... Wait. A Vault in the basement? I don't remember there being a vault in the movie. Wasn't there a furnace instead? And when it came to video games based on movies, a lot of them are not movie accurate. It game gets bad as soon as you get into the 2nd Floor hallway. Harry Lyme (Joe Pesci's character) looks nothing like the character. He looks likes a short guy with a fu manchu and a bowler hat. The only weapons you get in the game are a water pistol and a slingshot that does absolutely no damage to the robbers. All it does is stun them, but it takes about 3 hits and you run out of ammo almost immediately. What were they thinking? The water pistol only stuns the robbers for a short time, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. There are also some objects that can be used that are in the background, but most of the time the robbers stay still most of the time and makes them completely pointless.
The treasure are sometimes in really unexpected places. For instance, I found money in a toilet. A toilet? Who hides their money in the toilet? I can understand a dresser, drawers, and a shelf. But a toilet? What if one of the robbers decided to take a dump? When you collect all of the treasure on the first floor, you go down to the second floor. And finally you see a familar character. Marv. And he looks like him. What the hell? Harry doesn't look like himself, but Marv looks exactually like he did in the movie.
Finally, when you collect all of the fortune and it's all in the vault, you have to go lock it up. Apparently the owners were not to worried about all of their money stolen right under their noses, or maybe it just slipped their minds. You go to the door to the basement with the key that is so conviently placed right by it, and you have to avoid bats, rats, and ghosts. Wait, what? Is this Home Alone or Haunted House? You go through different many levels and you keep collecting treasure, but if you die and use up all your lives, you have to start at the beginning. But the thing says Continue or End Game. That's misleading. And when you die you get this screen when Kevin puts on the after shave and it screams. This scared the hell out of me when I was little. Overall, the graphics look promising, the gameplay is good, but when you reach the other levels it gets very hard. At the end of the game, you face the final boss and the final boss is a giant spider. This game has absolutely nothing to do with Home Alone. Giant spiders, bats, rats, and ghosts? I'm surprised they didn't add skeletons or Frankenstein monsters.
I finally understand why I wasn't able to like this. It's because it's an ungodly, annoying, frustrating, incoherent pile of steaming crap.
Graphics
7 Sound
7 Addictive
6 Depth
5 Story
4 Difficulty
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