You've seen the crappy Pixar-fueled games. You've played (or avoided) all kinds of crappy licensed merchandise that was only created to rake in cash from unsuspecting parents and children who may not know a good game if it bit them in the joystick. There are exceptions, but most games made from movies, as a rule, suck.
You know what wouldn't suck? How about games made from these three movies:
1. Labyrinth
Part platformer, part action-RPG, part dancing game. You play as Sarah Williams, who is soon joined by Huggle as her sidekick. After skipping the first ten minutes of the movie in a thirty-second clip (mostly to avoid five minutes of baby Toby crying), you are plunged into the labyrinth. You must fight your way through, dodging and navigating with a map that constantly fills out as you advance. After meeting Huggle, you can use his abilities to reach new areas of the maze. Logic puzzles would have to be solved in order to advance to certain rooms, and there would be secret passages and alternate routes depending on your answers and what abilities you chose to upgrade along the way. After you meat Ludo and gain the ability to call boulders forth, the labyrinth opens up and you have the remainder o the thirteen hour time limit to explore and try to find the Goblin King (played by David Bowie in a fantastic codpiece, by the way) and save your screaming brat of a little brother. The showdown at the end would be a dance off, for sure. Pure video gaming gold.
2. Little Miss Sunshine
As crazy a driving sim as you are ever going to get. You must navigate the roadways between Albuquerque and California's Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant in time for the performance of a life! Along the way you can make stops to fuel up at roadside eateries, making sure to keep all the family members happy and (most importantly) in the van by picking up powerups along the way such as heroin (for grandpa),
porn (for Uncle Frank), philosophy books (for Dwayne), etc. Along the way, the van continues to deteriorate and you must avoid the cops that try to stop you for your moving vilations and unsafe vehicle (if you're caught, they discover grandpa's body in the back). And it could end with one of the best dance offs in the history of video gaming.
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas
Yes, yes. I know. They made Oogie's Revenge for Ps2, Xbox, and GBA. That doesn't count. This would be an old school platformer, the kind that hasn't been seen since the glory days of the Super Nintendo. You would play as various characters, collecting the proper accoutrements for a Christmas celebration all your own. Levels would inclide the holiday forest grove as Jack and Zero, Christmas Town, the graveyard, Sally's tower as and escaping Sally, Christmas Town again as Lock, Shock, and Barrel, the real world as Jack (which would be a flying level in the sleigh dodging missles and delivering presents), and a final showdown with Oogie Boogie himself. Oh, yes...and...just for good measure, it would end with the best dance off in video gaming history.
Okay, so maybe they wouldn't be the best games ever, but you've got to agree that they would be far more entertaining than any Disney schlock that's out there!
What other movies would you love to see made into video games?
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I play those games. Nightmare Before Christmas was also in the Kingdom Hearts series, good times.