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  • Scooby-Doo: Unmasked!

    Posted on November 12th, 2008 Dan Hughes No comments

    November 11th began watching my roommates cool little son.  He’s a huge video game freak, and so fits right into the family.  It’s pretty awesome.

    So there I am on the couch, fighting relentlessly with 1and1’s servers to put this blog up.  In between the long delays between connections and on hold with 1and1’s customer support, I get to look up at what game the boy is playing.  It is Scooby-Doo: Unmasked for the Nintendo GameCube.

    Now, before you laugh at me, let me tell you something.  I love Scooby-Doo.  Those cartoons were awesome, and I still watch them from time to time, either online, or on good ol’ Boomerang.

    This game does an AWESOME job of letting the player be in episodes of the show!  The player controls Scoob, as he battles fake animatronic monsters.  The gang is all there, and as you walk by different characters, you get to hear their conversations with the various townsfolk.  Then, you go looking for clues, and bring them back to Velma, who helps you by describing them and together, everyone pieces together the mystery.

    The cast is almost 100% voiced over, and the voices are totally close sounding.  (With, disappointingly, the exception of Scooby-Doo, who doesn’t sound quite right.)  As you find clues and move on, the cutscenes add voiced conversation between all the characters, doing all the things they did in the cartoons: Shaggy and Scooby joking around, Velma being all smart, Fred being the leader, and Daphne… doing whatever it was that Daphne did.  The cutscenes themselves, are an episode to watch by themselves, and you guide it along based on the action you do, and what clues you pull together.

    One thing I was laughing over, was there is a power-up you can earn in the game, which makes Scooby a Kung-Fu Master.  (Sounds totally old-school Hanna Barbera to me :P ).  He stands on his hind legs, and with his front paws, he’ll bend over with his hands and charge up a powerful attack.  It looks just like the Kamehameha wave, except he says “Scooby-Dooby-Dooo!” instead.  LOL!!

    Anyways, there’s the topic for today.  I can’t guarantee I can keep these all light-hearted, but I’m going to do what I can.

    ~Dan

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