Willy Wonka and the চকোলেট Factory was one of my পছন্দ 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 চকোলেট Factory, which felt আরো drab but at least the visuals were nice… also not what we’re talking about, technically. The video game, Charlie and the চকোলেট Factory for PS2, published দ্বারা Warner Bros. Interactive, who now own the Mortal Kombat license. Weird, mentioning Mortal Kombat in each প্রবন্ধ thus far. The game was developed দ্বারা 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 চকোলেট 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 শিরোনাম 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 অথবা be it a part of all copies of the game, the game just dumps আপনি into the world with no opening story অথবা nothing. I assumed that it was my disc just skipping it, but after the first level, আপনি get a cutscene that shows Chapter 1 and then it goes to Chapter 2 in the পরবর্তি 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 আপনি into a long line and makes আপনি 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 দ্বারা a reasonably enjoyable section where আপনি 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 আপনি 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 আপনি 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, আপনি are tasked with collecting Oompa-Loompas to do tasks for আপনি while আপনি lead them. Think Pikmin but far আরো tedious. The Oompa-Loompas always take their sweet time to do the task আপনি order the too and sometimes just run around for মিনিট before finally finishing the task. And just আপনি wait until আপনি gotta make them collect fast running creatures that don’t make any sense existing in the factory, because that’s a real mess. আপনি can stun the creatures দ্বারা hitting them with Gobstoppers, yes, the ক্যান্ডি চকোলেট আপনি 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 পরবর্তি level. I walked around the first area of the factory for thirty মিনিট and ended up collecting all the collectables দ্বারা accident before I realized what to do. But the সেকেন্ড level is where I just gave up on this game. আপনি gotta get Agustus out of the চকোলেট pipe, which looks আরো like he’s being grinded to a literal gooey mush with the bad animations and colors. To save him, আপনি gotta close three vents, to do that, আপনি gotta trap robots using জেলি beans (Please don’t ask). But the ball will never always hit the vents and আপনি have to roll it at the vents because the vents are surrounded দ্বারা sharp thorns. If আপনি walk into them, আপনি get hurt and knocked back out. But if the ball is already too far into the vines, আপনি either gotta wait for the robot to leave the ball অথবা just kill yourself and reset the room. And Once আপনি finally close the vents, আপনি get to do it several আরো 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 চকোলেট Factory got this game only to get what feels like আরো of a chore than a game. I will give credit, the সঙ্গীত 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 হ্যালোইন Town in the Nightmare Before বড়দিন game অথবা Bikini Bottom in any of the Spongebob games. Too bad the ঘাস 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 আপনি still spent money on this trash and despite giving the company your money for it, আপনি get nothing! আপনি lose! Good day, sir!
The শিরোনাম 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 অথবা be it a part of all copies of the game, the game just dumps আপনি into the world with no opening story অথবা nothing. I assumed that it was my disc just skipping it, but after the first level, আপনি get a cutscene that shows Chapter 1 and then it goes to Chapter 2 in the পরবর্তি 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 আপনি into a long line and makes আপনি 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 দ্বারা a reasonably enjoyable section where আপনি 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 আপনি 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 আপনি 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, আপনি are tasked with collecting Oompa-Loompas to do tasks for আপনি while আপনি lead them. Think Pikmin but far আরো tedious. The Oompa-Loompas always take their sweet time to do the task আপনি order the too and sometimes just run around for মিনিট before finally finishing the task. And just আপনি wait until আপনি gotta make them collect fast running creatures that don’t make any sense existing in the factory, because that’s a real mess. আপনি can stun the creatures দ্বারা hitting them with Gobstoppers, yes, the ক্যান্ডি চকোলেট আপনি 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 পরবর্তি level. I walked around the first area of the factory for thirty মিনিট and ended up collecting all the collectables দ্বারা accident before I realized what to do. But the সেকেন্ড level is where I just gave up on this game. আপনি gotta get Agustus out of the চকোলেট pipe, which looks আরো like he’s being grinded to a literal gooey mush with the bad animations and colors. To save him, আপনি gotta close three vents, to do that, আপনি gotta trap robots using জেলি beans (Please don’t ask). But the ball will never always hit the vents and আপনি have to roll it at the vents because the vents are surrounded দ্বারা sharp thorns. If আপনি walk into them, আপনি get hurt and knocked back out. But if the ball is already too far into the vines, আপনি either gotta wait for the robot to leave the ball অথবা just kill yourself and reset the room. And Once আপনি finally close the vents, আপনি get to do it several আরো 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 চকোলেট Factory got this game only to get what feels like আরো of a chore than a game. I will give credit, the সঙ্গীত 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 হ্যালোইন Town in the Nightmare Before বড়দিন game অথবা Bikini Bottom in any of the Spongebob games. Too bad the ঘাস 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 আপনি still spent money on this trash and despite giving the company your money for it, আপনি get nothing! আপনি 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 নিশ্চিত this. With The Last Of Us and other new সঙ্গীত releasing this year. It could be a good turn around for Jones as he prepares for a possible new album.