The Smurfs: Dreams Review (erc493)
The Smurfs Dreams is a soild 3D jump and run platformer with a small exploration focused on it too (collect mushrooms and spindles). If you like 3D jump and runs then this game is defently worth a try and you can complete the game in 6-9 hours:
Pros:
+ overall level design is fun and creative (loved the mirror machanics and its levels the most, the stealth levels were also a nice change
+ graphics are great and its style
+ very good gameplay animation but barely any cutscenes alteast they are all well animated (i dont mean the comic style cutscenes but they are ok)
+ good soundtrack
+ cute HUD world
+ the 3 different mechanics you get thought the game are great: gun, hammer and lamp
+ boss fights are fun specially Dark Smurfette with epic soundtrack
+ plot is still good for what it is even it isnt much the game really focused more on gameplay than any other stuff
+ the themes of Gargamel and Cooking Smurf are well done
+ you see a lot of smurfs in the levels and they do different things to make the levels not feel lifeless, same for HUD world
+ some of the sand/space levels have different camera views which is actually a nice short change
Cons:
- the game is soild as an video game but as a smurf game its pretty weak in its lore for example you dont play any of the main character only a boring OC and no voice acting in this game (you only play kinda normal smurf without a name)
- need a little bit more enemy deversity, each world needs their own enemy types
- the side levels are good meant and also have fun level design the only downgrade on them are they all have the same boring sand/space style look (the personality of the smurfs you enter and you dont see the same style like with Stormy for example i would excpet something with a Forest with bows theme or Farm Smurfs something with a Farmhouse syle map but no its all only sand/space, i think the budget was to low to do all of that)
- kinda weird we didnt see anything from karate in the Smurfette dream also her model have missing high heels
Atleast for me it isnt as good as Smurfs Misson Vielaf and 2 Green Stone because the smurf feel and story pretty much was like you play an episode of the smurfs with the main cast and a lot voice acting packed with neat gameplay mechanics but here its not the same. Kinda funny in a way that every single of the 5 Smurf games play different and feel a little bit different which is kinda interesting atleast in deversity. This game just feels like you come back in a few years and play it again because its fun as a video game even its more on the very easy side.