Piglet's Big Game

Piglet's Big Game

PAL region cover art for PS2
Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
Platform(s) Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance
Release date(s)

GameCube

PS2

  • NA March 19, 2003
  • PAL July 11, 2003

GBA

  • NA March 11, 2003[2]
  • PAL December 3, 2003
Genre(s) Action-Adventure
Mode(s) Single-player

Disney's Piglet's Big Game (also titled Piglet's Big Game) is a 2003 action-adventure video game by Gotham Games, Disney Interactive Studios and Doki Denki Studio. The game centers around Piglet and how he tries to show how he can help. The game is based on Piglet's Big Movie.

Playable characters

Winnie The Pooh: Pooh can walk slightly slow and must dodge Heffalumps and Woozles that he accidentally attracted with his rumbly tumbly. Only playable in Owl's and Tigger's dreams.

Piglet: The star of the game. Piglet can move much faster, and is able to intimidate a monster by making scary faces. If he gets scared by a Heffalump or Woozle, he can find a Christopher Robin balloon to comfort him.

Tigger: Tigger can sneak around to avoid detection by monsters, and must stay out of their flashlight beams, he can also bounce to go faster. Only playable in Roo's and Rabbit's dreams.

Plot

This game primarily features Piglet going into his friends' dreams and scaring "Heffalumps" & "Woozles" to help his friends collect valuable items.

The game starts with Piglet observing Pooh reaching for a bee hive, Roo reaching for a ball that is caught in a tree, Owl trying to remember where his memory book is, Rabbit planting his carrots, Eeyore having his usual gloomy days, and Tigger painting his house to look like him.

Piglet sees a shadowy monster called the Granosorus and is scared of it, but it disappears before his friends can see it. Even Christopher Robin does not believe him. Christopher tells Piglet to overcome his fears, but Piglet says that heroes are supposed to be big and brave, and since he is the opposite, he realizes that he will never be a hero. Piglet leaves the Hundred-Acre-Wood as his friends start to fall asleep doing what Piglet saw them doing. Piglet magically enters their dreams and begins to help them find their missing items. After helping them all, the Hundred Acre Wood get flooded and Piglet attempts to save his friends, who are trapped on islands with Heffalumps and Woozles. Once Piglet rescues everybody the Granosorus appears, but Piglet was able to scare it off. Christopher Robin comes and after learning about their adventures he gives everyone a picnic to celebrate Piglet's bravery.

Levels

Enemies

Final Level

After Piglet completes all the Dreams he can head to the final level A Blustery Day. In the final level, all of Piglet's friends are stranded on different islands with one (or two) Heffalumps or Woozles. Piglet must Scare the Heffalumps and Woozles and rescue his friends using items from their dreams. If the player is too slow or if he makes a mistake, one of Piglet's friends might get scared by a Heffalump, or a Woozle and the player will have to start over.

At the end, Piglet must face the Granosorus and scare it off before it tries to scare his friends.

Voice actors and their characters

Reception

Like the movie, the game received positive reviews as well. Ryan Davis, in a review for GameSpot, deemed the game very much superior to most children’s games and movie tie-ins, and praised the voice acting, sound and art design (which features "surreal" imagery of the character’s dream worlds). Davis also noted the game’s gentle pace.[6] IGN's Chadd Chambers gave the GameCube version 7.0/10,[7] finding the gameplay simple but well-executed and easy to control and the battle system well-suited for the young target audience due to its lack of violence.[1] He compared the graphics positively to the look of the cartoon and praised the "quite enjoyable" art direction,[1] the real-time shadows, and the quality of the cut-scenes.[7]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Chambers, Chadd (2003-03-14). "Piglet's Big Game Review (page 1)". IGN. Archived from the original on 2004-06-03. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  2. 1 2 3 "Piglet's Big Game (GBA)". IGN. Archived from the original on 2004-12-17.
  3. Bramwell, Tom (2003-02-14). "Piglet's BIG News Story". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on 2015-09-04. Retrieved 2015-09-03.
  4. "THQ and Disney Pair Up". IGN. 2003-09-10. Archived from the original on 2004-12-09.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Piglet's Big Game PS2 Manual
  6. Davis, Ryan (2003-05-02). "Piglet's Big Game Review". GameSpot. CBS Interactive, Inc. Retrieved 2009-06-03.
  7. 1 2 Chambers, Chadd (2003-03-14). "Piglet's Big Game Review (page 2)". IGN. Archived from the original on 2004-06-03.
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