Willy Wonka and the Sô cô la Factory was one of my yêu thích films as a kid. A classic film starring Gene Wilder filled with adventure and whimsy… We’re not talking about that one. The Tim burton remake, Charlie and the Sô cô la Factory, which felt thêm drab but at least the visuals were nice… also not what we’re talking about, technically. The video game, Charlie and the Sô cô la Factory for PS2, published bởi Warner Bros. Interactive, who now own the Mortal Kombat license. Weird, mentioning Mortal Kombat in each bài viết thus far. The game was developed bởi High Voltage Software, who are still around today and worked on a portion of the Saints Row series, the modern Mortal Kombat games, and Zombieland: Double Tap as of recently. Charlie and the Sô cô la Factory advertises itself as being able to explore the factory at your own leisure, so enjoying the factory myself as a kid, maybe it will be fun…. Yeah, I wish.
The tiêu đề screen looks promising, has a nice whimsical tone to it and the factory looks nice, but sadly, this is where the pleasantries come to a halt. Be it my scratched disc hoặc be it a part of all copies of the game, the game just dumps bạn into the world with no opening story hoặc nothing. I assumed that it was my disc just skipping it, but after the first level, bạn get a cutscene that shows Chapter 1 and then it goes to Chapter 2 in the tiếp theo cutscene, so I don’t know. The camera controls are hard inverted and go at an alarmingly fast rate, and they just make me feel ill. Speaking of ill, Charlie looks a little… malnourished. I know he’s poor and stuff, but he legit looks like he crawled out of Hiroshima after the bombs dropped. The game puts bạn into a long line and makes bạn walk down it trying to collect a single dollar, doing all sorts of wonky platforming on boxes and taking notice of collision glitches like giant snowballs clipping into the boxes. This is then followed up bởi a reasonably enjoyable section where bạn control Charlie as he slides down the road on a trash can lid, avoiding trucks and garbage cans. It’s short, basic, but enjoyable for what it is. But trust me, once bạn get to the factory, it’s all over. This is where the game shows just how boring it truly is.
The cutscenes have these characters looking really… deformed. Charlie looks fine, even if he has the black soulless eyes of a demon, but everyone else is so oddly detailed and they look kinda gross. Agustus looks like a whitewashed Fat Albert, Veruca’s big eyes piss me off, and bạn got Mike Teavee out here looking like fucking Johnny Test. But the most disgusting thing here are the Oompa-Loompas. They did this actor dirty. Their introduction is honestly horrifying. They run around at high speed all around Charlie with this distorted sound. It’s like something out of Predator. Once the game starts, bạn are tasked with collecting Oompa-Loompas to do tasks for bạn while bạn lead them. Think Pikmin but far thêm tedious. The Oompa-Loompas always take their sweet time to do the task bạn order the too and sometimes just run around for phút before finally finishing the task. And just bạn wait until bạn gotta make them collect fast running creatures that don’t make any sense existing in the factory, because that’s a real mess. bạn can stun the creatures bởi hitting them with Gobstoppers, yes, the kẹo bạn eat, but the lock on is so wonky that it will go all over the place before finally landing on the creature, and even then, it’s not a guarantee you’ll hit them. I didn’t realize I had to hit these things several times before I could advance to the tiếp theo level. I walked around the first area of the factory for thirty phút and ended up collecting all the collectables bởi accident before I realized what to do. But the một giây level is where I just gave up on this game. bạn gotta get Agustus out of the Sô cô la pipe, which looks thêm like he’s being grinded to a literal gooey mush with the bad animations and colors. To save him, bạn gotta close three vents, to do that, bạn gotta trap robots using thạch, sữa ong chúa beans (Please don’t ask). But the ball will never always hit the vents and bạn have to roll it at the vents because the vents are surrounded bởi sharp thorns. If bạn walk into them, bạn get hurt and knocked back out. But if the ball is already too far into the vines, bạn either gotta wait for the robot to leave the ball hoặc just kill yourself and reset the room. And Once bạn finally close the vents, bạn get to do it several thêm times. At that point, I had enough of this tedious mess and just quit.
I can only imagine how many children who enjoyed Charlie and the Sô cô la Factory got this game only to get what feels like thêm of a chore than a game. I will give credit, the âm nhạc is really well orchestrated and the idea of exploring the factory is a decent idea. I always loved exploring the worlds of characters from TV shows and movies, like the town of Halloween Town in the Nightmare Before giáng sinh game hoặc Bikini Bottom in any of the Spongebob games. Too bad the cỏ hurts my eyes in the factory. Those compliments don’t outway the mountain of tedium. So no matter what, the game is still a boring mess and bạn still spent money on this trash and despite giving the company your money for it, bạn get nothing! bạn lose! Good day, sir!
The tiêu đề screen looks promising, has a nice whimsical tone to it and the factory looks nice, but sadly, this is where the pleasantries come to a halt. Be it my scratched disc hoặc be it a part of all copies of the game, the game just dumps bạn into the world with no opening story hoặc nothing. I assumed that it was my disc just skipping it, but after the first level, bạn get a cutscene that shows Chapter 1 and then it goes to Chapter 2 in the tiếp theo cutscene, so I don’t know. The camera controls are hard inverted and go at an alarmingly fast rate, and they just make me feel ill. Speaking of ill, Charlie looks a little… malnourished. I know he’s poor and stuff, but he legit looks like he crawled out of Hiroshima after the bombs dropped. The game puts bạn into a long line and makes bạn walk down it trying to collect a single dollar, doing all sorts of wonky platforming on boxes and taking notice of collision glitches like giant snowballs clipping into the boxes. This is then followed up bởi a reasonably enjoyable section where bạn control Charlie as he slides down the road on a trash can lid, avoiding trucks and garbage cans. It’s short, basic, but enjoyable for what it is. But trust me, once bạn get to the factory, it’s all over. This is where the game shows just how boring it truly is.
The cutscenes have these characters looking really… deformed. Charlie looks fine, even if he has the black soulless eyes of a demon, but everyone else is so oddly detailed and they look kinda gross. Agustus looks like a whitewashed Fat Albert, Veruca’s big eyes piss me off, and bạn got Mike Teavee out here looking like fucking Johnny Test. But the most disgusting thing here are the Oompa-Loompas. They did this actor dirty. Their introduction is honestly horrifying. They run around at high speed all around Charlie with this distorted sound. It’s like something out of Predator. Once the game starts, bạn are tasked with collecting Oompa-Loompas to do tasks for bạn while bạn lead them. Think Pikmin but far thêm tedious. The Oompa-Loompas always take their sweet time to do the task bạn order the too and sometimes just run around for phút before finally finishing the task. And just bạn wait until bạn gotta make them collect fast running creatures that don’t make any sense existing in the factory, because that’s a real mess. bạn can stun the creatures bởi hitting them with Gobstoppers, yes, the kẹo bạn eat, but the lock on is so wonky that it will go all over the place before finally landing on the creature, and even then, it’s not a guarantee you’ll hit them. I didn’t realize I had to hit these things several times before I could advance to the tiếp theo level. I walked around the first area of the factory for thirty phút and ended up collecting all the collectables bởi accident before I realized what to do. But the một giây level is where I just gave up on this game. bạn gotta get Agustus out of the Sô cô la pipe, which looks thêm like he’s being grinded to a literal gooey mush with the bad animations and colors. To save him, bạn gotta close three vents, to do that, bạn gotta trap robots using thạch, sữa ong chúa beans (Please don’t ask). But the ball will never always hit the vents and bạn have to roll it at the vents because the vents are surrounded bởi sharp thorns. If bạn walk into them, bạn get hurt and knocked back out. But if the ball is already too far into the vines, bạn either gotta wait for the robot to leave the ball hoặc just kill yourself and reset the room. And Once bạn finally close the vents, bạn get to do it several thêm times. At that point, I had enough of this tedious mess and just quit.
I can only imagine how many children who enjoyed Charlie and the Sô cô la Factory got this game only to get what feels like thêm of a chore than a game. I will give credit, the âm nhạc is really well orchestrated and the idea of exploring the factory is a decent idea. I always loved exploring the worlds of characters from TV shows and movies, like the town of Halloween Town in the Nightmare Before giáng sinh game hoặc Bikini Bottom in any of the Spongebob games. Too bad the cỏ hurts my eyes in the factory. Those compliments don’t outway the mountain of tedium. So no matter what, the game is still a boring mess and bạn still spent money on this trash and despite giving the company your money for it, bạn get nothing! bạn lose! Good day, sir!
Back at PSX 2016 Jones announced promotions for The Last Of Us Part ll. At E3 2018 he announced promotions for The Last Of Us Part ll. Currently IGN rumors that The Last Of Us Part ll will release within 2019 however Naughty Dog has yet to xác nhận this. With The Last Of Us and other new âm nhạc releasing this year. It could be a good turn around for Jones as he prepares for a possible new album.