The Problem with Licensed Games: Difference between revisions

** Finally, there was ''[[Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge]]'', which was kind of a ''Dexter's Laboratory'' themed version of ''[[Battle Chess]]''. Why they would try to market a chess game to kids - with [[Nintendo Hard| very unfair AI]], even [[Fake Difficulty| on Easy mode]] - is a mystery. The animated cutscenes are slow, looking like they were made with Microsoft Paint, the music was just as bad, and the dialogue between the characters - who never shut up - got annoying quickly. Even if you do play chess, this gets boring fast, and it even seems like it was [[Obvious Beta| unfinished]] and [[Christmas Rushed| rushed.]]

 

* ''[[Alice in Wonderland (2010 video game)|Alice in Wonderland]]'', the video game adaptation of [[Tim Burton]]'s [[Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)|2010 film]], was a decided letdown to fans of the movie. Many of the battles are unintuitive, and the player doesn't even play ''as'' Alice—rather, as five residents of Underland (though they do fortunately consist of fan-favorites such as the Mad Hatter), who have to make their way through the entire map while preventing [[The Load|Alice]] from being captured. It's not horrible, but it's extremely disappointing.

* Two of the games from the ''[[American Girls Collection]]'' for the Nintendo DS, namely ''Julie Finds a Way'' and ''Kit Mystery Challenge'' were given scathing reviews, mainly due to piss-poor gameplay and controls. The ''American Girls Premiere'' game for the PC and Mac was [[So Bad It's Good/Video Games|a different story, though]].

* Usually, the ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' franchise is a great crossover adapting many [[Humongous Mecha]] series. But the ball was dropped '''hard''' for ''[[Super Robot Wars K]]''. Between flaws like the [[Scrappy Mechanic|malfunctioning]] Partner Battle system, [[Plot Hole|poor story]][[Cosmic Deadline|writing]] and a main character that [[The Scrappy|fans hardly like]], it's no wonder that this game is considered the worst entry.

* ''[[Napoleon Dynamite|Napoleon Dynamite: The Game]]''. With most of the games on this page, you can at least understand ''why'' they were made, most of them being developed to cash in on some movie or TV show that was popular at the time. In this case, it’s hard to imagine such logic being behind this game’s creation. This is just a bunch of mini-games with characters from the famous [[Cult Classic]], and has very little of the humor of the source material. One review, from GameSpot, called it "irrelevant", "a poor effort", and not "even halfway amusing" giving it a score of 4.0/10.

 

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