“Why review the children’s arcade?”-asks the corrosive reader-commentator. Indeed – why? There are several “adult” reasons for.
Firstly, the game, we are not afraid of this word, is consecrated by the brand of Disney studio. Moreover, unlike a ton of one -day, gathered in a quick hand, this project was initially manifested precisely on the playing field.
Secondly, the destructive griff “Children’s” in the case of Disney Universe is quite formal in nature. Who seriously considers Disney films and cartoons products exclusively for peanuts? Okay, who really thinks so – do not play, do not look, don’t read. Persuaded.
The cube of the under -fire
Remember the cube from Portal? He performed plastic surgery, lifting, peeling and speaking. Now he himself is almost equal to Glados and lives in the world of Disney. Joke.
In fact, in the local universe, cubes really play important roles. Initially, we are welcomed by a cute blue computer geometric guide;He claims that we will now plunge into the wonderful world, which we saw in cartoons and just films of the Studio of the Great Walt Disney (Walt Disney). And the blue little men who are actually robots, they are actors, will help us better feel the depth of the fairy tale.
IN Portal weighted cargo cube-companion, he is a cube with pink hearts, is actually given to the player as a defense. Only with a cube in your hands can you be saved from energy balls. And so that we do not slip past this possibility and do not get stuck without anyway, the developers allocated the “hero” from the gray mass of other cubes with color, concept and warning Glados, recommending to take care of their geometric friend. Until a certain point.
Talking cubes in Disney Universe have nothing to do with Cuba-Companion. Although we, of course, do not know what the developers were inspired by when the artificial intelligence in such a recognizable form was fired.
But not everything is so simple! After all, there is also a red-black “viral” cube with uneven edges and a hooligan disposition. This enemy captures the system, declares itself the main one and scatters around aggressive robots everywhere (also red-black, stump is clear). So, if someone hoped to get out of another salvation of the next universe, know that the military registration and enlistment office is against. Will have to fulfill your duty to one at all your homeland!
In order for us to serve the animated fatherland, under our command they give out a blue man dressed in one of the heroic costumes. Jack Sparrow, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Vall-I, Cheshire Cat and Queen Cherve-in a word, all conceivable and inconceivable characters from Disney creations will jump, run, fight and perform small mini-stories surrounded by various scenery. We will have to visit pirate ships, in the crazy world Alice and Hatter, on foreign planets and many more where.
The main thing is that the suit
Funny videos are completely compensated by funny videos that lies in wait for us in the process of passage everywhere, but in many sections of the path. Specifically – before the start of each level. Masterfully played pantomime performed by two enemy thugs and one parrot-head, perhaps, will not cause laughter, but the smiles are certainly worth.
And in the breaks between the videos, that is, directly during the game, in the role of Mima, our blue character, dressed according to the last masquerade-adventure fashion. They really like robots to show off in costumes of Disney heroes. Ultimately, it is for the sake of costumes that we lay the opponents with the help of a pink broom or a giant mushroom, jump over the abysses, shoot from guns and drag everywhere with bulky objects necessary to solve the next mini-head.
The fact is that at each level the evil red-black cube captured a certain character from Disney creations. His liberation is our main goal and a very useful thing for collectors. After all, just for this, they will give us another heroic suit, in which it will be possible to show off on the next task. Speaking quite honestly, the outfit swent takes away from the very rescued one who had just recently made grateful sounds and made grateful gestures addressed to us. Well, right – “thank you”, you know, you can’t put it in your pocket!
How to release a prisoner? Just get to him by going through all the trials. Speaking of trials-in addition to the main gameplay, mini-games are thrown from time to time. If we, on the way to a bright blue future, stumble upon a red slot machine, this means that we can immediately interrupt all our current affairs and get into the regime of tough manifold: all tasks – for a while. For example, save four princess -like dolls in twenty seconds, withstand meteorite rain or kill a certain number of red men. It is sometimes more difficult to do this than it seems at first glance. They don’t give more than one attempt. It didn’t work out? So, you will either have to forget about your winning ambitions, or restart the entire level entirely, which is very expensive, since slot machines are thrown to us in the middle or closer to the end of each stage in the way.
Oh, how he hits a mushroom, our Vasya!
In addition to high fashion, we are interested in money, secret objects and stars that increase the level … costume. The character is the same-the blue bot. And the clothes are different. Moreover, our main combat skills depend on the vestments.
You probably ask: why is such an amount of clothing you need if it “pumps” in the process anyway only the current outfit? The fact is that Disney Universe originally designed primarily for multiplayer. The advice that the cubes before each level, and the control features of management are supplied with such positioning.
The game is almost a classic “boot”. “Almost” – because in the classic “boards” the player usually does not have to solve entertaining, although completely simple tasks for quick wits and combinatorics. And here – it is. If at first we are talking about the simplest single -flowers, then the farther to the forest, the more confusing combinations from thick partisans become. Scroll through the valve to lower the platform on which there is a receiver for a magic sword, insert a sword, wait for the rope stairs to fall up, go up and with the help of another valve lift the elevator, so that you can insert the sword in another receiver, upstairs, is quite ordinaryThe sequence of actions, starting the level from the second.
With all this, the arcade elements also nobody canceled. Traditional jumping from the platform on the platform is diluted not quite standard pokatushki on parrot cells, running “against wool” on a peculiar escalator and fuss with the movement of a mass of objects – there are guns, and a white rabbit clock, and which is not not there.
Quite often you have to fade from a variety of guns over moving targets, extinguish fires and fight off enemies alone from giant crowds. Which, however, is completely simple – our hero is cool and is almost invincible by definition. He scatters all one left, even though the opponents do not disdain to use a terrible weapon without five minutes of mass defeat. Toy cubs, bottles, brushes, brooms, candies and other oblong objects of an incomprehensible purpose are used (silent, gentlemen officers;!).
In fact, Disney Universe – A great example of how to make arcades to play them is not boring. Constant change of types of actions, new tasks at each level save the game process from formidable ghosts of monotony. Meanwhile, it is precisely the same type of actions performed – the scourge of most platformers. The developers managed to get around this trap.
In addition to costumes, we are also vividly interested in the worlds – the worlds of Disney, entourage locations dedicated to various films and cartoons. With them, too, everything is not easy. Initially, we are allowed only to the Universe inhabited by the Pirates of the Caribbean Sea. To get into the country of miracles, a monsters corporation, on a sad, littered planet Vall or somewhere else, you need to pay two thousand eared gold in the form of Mickey Maus. Money can be found during the game literally under your feet. But they are also falling out of the character’s pockets with the same ease with which they get there. Each death inside the level is an occasion to miss a decent amount in your virtual account. As a result, if all three stages have been passed, the world is already “closed”, and there is still no desired amount of money, you have to go in the second round. And with surprise to discover in the process new mini-games and new “prisoners” heroes waiting for liberation.
On the other hand, the process of passage is lightly at the same. Each action is explained in detail in the formulation of the task. And if someone is not enough for someone, you can turn on (more precisely, do not turn it off) the display of huge blue arrows indicating the object with which you just need to do something now. So it turns out a funny picture-even the child can simply go through the level from beginning to end, but in order to go through it with the fulfillment of special conditions like winning in a mini-game or a significant monetary “profit”, you will have to sweat a little.
The picture in the game is good as good cartoons are good. Wonderful animation, bright, colorful locations – in general, what is needed for such a project. No more and no less.
The situation with music is a little worse. Significantly worse. Too active and intrusive, it begins to annoy during the installation process, and after the fifth repetition – forces to climb into the settings and look for a switch. On the other hand, given that this is almost the only drawback of the game, we will forgive Eurocom Entertainment Such a trifle.
If the arcade, originally developed for children, delays both parents and older sisters-brothers, then the product is a successful. Disney Universe This is exactly what makes us immerse with your head for at least a couple of evenings. By
the way, Disney cartoons work in about the same way, so the continuity of generations is evident.
Pros: fascinating and diverse gameplay;worthy graphics;optimal balance of simple and complex;soft and good humor.
Cons: obsessive music.