Is it just me, or are video games made from movies and books usually not very good? I don’t know, maybe I just pick bad games, but I have learned over the years to never play a game based off of something else, and I have since placed nearly every game I own from this category into my to-sell pile. (I’m pretty much waiting for another Play & Trade to open up near me because Game Stop won’t take old games. There was one, and then it closed…. Frowny-faces.)
You see, what happened is, many years ago, when I was still naïve, I would sometimes buy games from movie series I enjoyed, and I was rarely ever happy with what I ended up with. I bought “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” quite some time ago (which I sold to Play & Trade when they were still around), and I was not a fan. It was just ridiculously hard, and all I could really do was button mash all over the place and watch as my character got beaten to a pulp by all manner of orcs and trolls and other freaky things. Not my idea of a good time, even if the orcs likely found my pain to be entertaining. And then I played “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” on the GameCube, which was largely frustrating and involved a bunch of challenges that didn’t actually relate to the game at all. And exploring Hogwarts was not nearly as cool as I thought it would be. I also didn’t have many happy thoughts on “The Hobbit” video game, which seemed to be well-liked, but it was just too difficult and, once again, involved a lot of unrelated challenges, so we hates it forever, precious. And “Jurassic Park” on the SNES was rather horrible, as well. And not just because there were no save points.
