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Disney's latest masterpiece

on Saturday, June, 14, 2008 1:50 AM
Lol, found this review for "High School Musical 2: Work This Out!" for the DS on GameShark. A lengthy but very entertaining read. Enjoy!

According to GameShark:
As the father of two elementary-school aged children, I’ll be the first to admit I probably watch a little too much Disney Channel. The problem is that you eventually end up getting as excited for a new Hannah Montana show as your kids do. Remembering last August when High School Musical 2 debuted, we made it quite the family night. Of course, at the time there was no thought that the movie would be on at least three guhzillion times subsequent to that initial showing, and for some reason you stop what you’re doing and watch it each and every time. Your kids have that effect on you.

Having that background sure does help you appreciate the latest Nintendo DS game, High School Musical 2: Work This Out. If you haven’t seen the movie, you’ll be left with a really bad mini-game adventure. If you have seen the movie, you’ll appreciate the fact that this game is just as redundant as the movie. In fact, it’s easily the worst game I’ve played to date on the Nintendo DS. It’s that bad.

The game follows the events of the second movie to a point; you’re at the Lava Springs resort and you take on the role of many of the different characters in the movie. This is done through a process called: checking the events board, seeing a photo of the new character you’ll be playing with some text description and then morphing into that character. Yes, it’s that stupid.

But wait, it gets even worse: the events board rarely has any events on it; instead it has things like “someone found music sheets in the dining room,” and of course one person cannot handle such an enormous task of picking up three sheets of music, so you’ll have to go help them. The mini games almost all follow the same routine: “find Sharpay’s golf balls scattered throughout the resort,” or “make a sandwich but only pick up the food with the beat of the music,” and “grab the basketballs but only to the beat of the music.” It’s basically two or three minigames with different variations on the same concept.

What’s even worse is that it’s painfully easy and takes a long time to complete. In the early levels you’ll have to get a target score of 800 and while you’re already at 2000 points, you are still only halfway to finishing the minigame. It is patently stupid. In later levels, the score challenge may go up and you’ll have different ways to achieve your goal, but it’s still the same boring game.

Each “day” you play a few minigames, have to attend to a crisis “Help, I lost my clothes in the pool,” and then have to “practice” a dance routine for the big show. At the end of the day you do the whole routine, which is one of the songs from the movie. To dance, you play a game similar to Elite Beat Agents. Sounds okay but it’s implemented very poorly; sometimes taps aren’t even registered and the dancer doesn’t even dance to the music or your tapping. Once you “beat” (using that term loosely since it is insanely easy), the song, it becomes unlocked for your listening pleasure.

The programmers made a poor decision when deciding on the audio: on the plus side, the entire HSM 2 soundtrack is in the game. You don’t need to buy the album, aren’t you excited? Making the songs unlockable doesn’t seem like a bad thing, but having the background music comprised of only songs you’ve unlocked is terrible. On day one, you get to hear “You Are The Music In Me,” the Troy & Gabriella way, and then the SAME song by Sharpay. After those two play you hear them AGAIN. And AGAIN. And AGAIN. You will be driven completely insane and it’s only day one! It takes a very long time to unlock all the songs, and by then you’ll probably have no use to see this game ever in your Nintendo DS.

The graphics are horrible, even by DS standards. While the backgrounds are nice, the game is shown in a ¾ view perspective from t



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on Saturday, June, 14, 2008 8:39 AM
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on Saturday, June, 14, 2008 11:12 AM

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on Saturday, June, 14, 2008 6:29 PM
Avi Wrote:In the General Section for Tron related stuff?

Oops, I thought I was in Off Topic...

Ummmmm, you could, uh, compare it to TRON 2.0 PC reviews?

Sorry, my bad.

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on Saturday, June, 14, 2008 9:03 PM
TRON.dll Wrote:
Avi Wrote:In the General Section for Tron related stuff?

Oops, I thought I was in Off Topic...

Ummmmm, you could, uh, compare it to TRON 2.0 PC reviews?

Sorry, my bad.

BTW, 600th post! W00t!

Congrats on entering the 600 Club!

Try to watch which forum you post non-TRON things to in the future. We all make mistakes though. At least the reviewer thought the High School Musical game sucked. It sounds really bad, but then again, so do the films it's modeled after.

I know these High School Musical films are oriented toward a young crowd and all, but it still... I just don't get the popularity of them. Then again, most people say that about TRON - only TRON never was very popular among the masses. Just with us geeks, nerds, and sci-fi lovers. I wonder if TRON might have done better at the box office in 1982 if Disney gave it a fraction of the promotion that they gave their High School Musical films. Hmmm.






 
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on Sunday, June, 15, 2008 1:00 AM
TheReelTodd wrote:
Congrats on entering the 600 Club!

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on Sunday, June, 15, 2008 11:10 AM
I actually watched the movies. They were not too bad... but, yeah, it's very squeaky clean cut movies for young teens. Which is probably a good thing.

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on Sunday, June, 15, 2008 4:38 PM
You know, I saw this thread and thought it was gonna be about Wall:E.

High School Musical game?

I tried watching that first movie...and I fell asleep...

but maybe it's just because I'm not young enough/don't have kids.

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on Sunday, June, 15, 2008 5:49 PM
KiaPurity Wrote:But it does seem that games based on movies tend to do rather poorly. Of course, there are exceptions, right, guys?


Well, there's......

Goldeneye
TRON 2.0
TRON
Disks of TRON
Lego Star Wars (all of them)
Lego Indiana Jones

Oh, and don't forget E.T!


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on Monday, June, 16, 2008 2:59 PM
How is ET an exception?

It's *the* worst movie game. o_o

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Re: Disney's latest masterpiece

on Monday, June, 16, 2008 4:23 PM
KiaPurity Wrote:How is ET an exception?

It's *the* worst movie game. o_o

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on Monday, June, 16, 2008 5:37 PM
*blank stare*

This is the internet; sarcasm does not translate well to text.

But how do you know if it's sarcasm and not what the OP feels?

One man's worst game is another man's best game.

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on Monday, June, 16, 2008 5:57 PM

It's E.T... the game. Need I say more?
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on Monday, June, 16, 2008 10:01 PM
Cam_the_Man Wrote:
It's E.T... the game. Need I say more?

Well, pretty much = sarcasm. Oh well.

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on Monday, June, 16, 2008 11:42 PM
TRON.dll Wrote:
Cam_the_Man Wrote:
It's E.T... the game. Need I say more?

Well, pretty much = sarcasm. Oh well.

Oh god, there's a Miley Cirus ad on the bottom of the screen.

Atleast we know you've been looking at something... wink. HAHAHA

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on Tuesday, June, 17, 2008 1:06 AM
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