dementedhut's Snoopy's Magic Show review

Y'know, I think it was brave of you to take on an obscure game from an IP that has a disparate history of releases. I know of only one other, and that was on the SNES. The soundtrack is quite something, and I was hoping to hear a little bit about that in your review. Otherwise, it seems like an experience that you'd have to be stuck in the back of a car or on a camping trip to endure. Suitable to the intended use case of the Gameboy.

Thanks for sharing!

I came into the game with the assumption that it was going to be more on the easygoing side, based on what little gameplay I've seen of it. Then after 30 minutes, I was like "... oh."

Now that I think about, it was odd of me to completely omit any mention of the soundtrack; this may come off as an insult, but as I was playing the game, the soundtrack felt like the equivalent of elevator music. It was only after "post-production" when I was gathering image assets for the review that the music actually grew on me with its simple approach.

I've never played any other Snoopy video game, though I came pretty close a few times. Awhile back I almost got the Snoopy Tennis gbc game because I was on a tennis kick after completing Mario Tennis (Color), but that fell through.

Thanks for reading!

My pleasure. In my experience, if I'm writing and the music doesn't automatically come to the surface, then there's a good reason. I may stop to look at it, but I've overlooked soundtracks, too. I'm pretty sure in my NinjWarriors Again review I completely forgot to call out its bangin' soundtrack.

Oops. That's probably the key element that makes it so much fun to play outside of the actual combat physics.

There have been lots of games with Snoopy and the Peanuts gang, but it seems to be more popular in Japan than in the US, as far as game franchises go. The main ones I've played are the Red Baron game on the PS2, and the Peanuts tie-in for the more recent film on the Wii U.