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If you're looking for an accurate
representation of the book or the film, you got it. The Game Boy Advance
adventure picks up when Harry Potter enters his first year at Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, following almost every important
detail of the story's exploits. The troll "invasion", the
Quiddich match, the earning of House Points...it's all here. The Game
Boy Advance version is distinctly different from the Game Boy Color
version also released, as this edition is more of a adventure/puzzle
game than the GBC's RPG design. And while the Game Boy Advance has more
potential in bringing the Potter story to life in a fun game, the
development team sort of stumble around with redundant "shove items
around" gameplay that gets old pretty quickly...and it's
unfortunately a majority of the game's design.
See, every time Harry goes to class, he learns a skill...and that skill is put to the task in a puzzle environment where he must locate a set number of a specific item. The first spell you learn is "Filipendo" (which sounds like "Nintendo!" through Harry's digitized English accent), and this spell shoots a magic ball and pushes items away from where you shot it. These levels are very similar to the Golden Sun "log shoving" puzzles or the "block shoving" puzzles in nearly every existing Zelda game...but where they're few and far between in these games, in Harry Potter, it's all over the place. To add variety to these challenges, the developers included a Metal Gear type series of levels when Harry needs to escape his dormitory at night. These rounds are clever but a bit wonky as well, since it's tough to tell where each of the characters' line-of-sight begin and end...you can be standing two pixels away from one teacher without being seen, but another teacher might see you from a good half screen distance. And this glitchiness doesn't stop at these night-time levels, as the collision detection is really strange when falling off a ledge or getting hit by a creature or thorn. When battling the huge Troll, the game showed the big guy falling into a well, but he was a good step or two away from plummeting. These weird hiccups seem to show that the development team didn't have enough time to give the game its needed polish before release. Overall: 5/10 "A great film needs a great game- but this game has let the Harry Potter standards down!" |
Game: Harry Potter Publisher: EA Developer: Griptonite Format: GBA
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