3/5 ★ – jdraco's review of Disney's Pooh and Tigger's Hunny Safari.

Winnie the Pooh is a franchise that’s near and dear to my heart As a kid I had stuffed animals of all the main characters; I would watch the show and that movie where they search for Christopher Robin all the damn time And I had a Winnie the Pooh View-Master, so needless to say, I was getting all the bitches on the playground Regardless, though, I just love Winnie the Pooh, so that’s why I’ve been making it a goal of mine to slowly chip away at playing every Winnie the Pooh game there is And I've already played masterpieces like Tigger’s Honey Hunt, as well as rage-inducing ones like Winnie the Pooh’s Home Run Derby So, how does this one stack up to those games? Well… It’s not as good, but still not bad, though Yeah, this is actually a pretty good game Essentially this is a platformer designed kind of like a Metroidvania, where you have to navigate these maze-like levels to find and collect a certain amount of honey pots, and then once you get them all, you have to find Eeyore or Pooh in order to end the level That’s most levels, though; there actually are some more straightforward levels thrown in there where you just have to get to the end, but for the most part it is those Metroidvania-like levels And yeah, these levels are actually pretty good, not great, though, and that’s almost entirely because of the enemies and projectiles scattered throughout them Now the enemies actually on their own aren’t that bad; they’ve got pretty predictable patterns and can be pretty easily beaten. The only problem with them is that some of their hitboxes are stupid As for the projectiles, though, this is where the fuck of the game starts to kick in Because in almost every level there are these projectiles that fall randomly from the ceiling in any place at any time, which is just, what the fuck I hate these things; the fact that they’re so random and can literally fall from anywhere just makes them so annoying and can cause you to just take useless damage that you most likely had no way of avoiding It’s dumb as hell Other than that, though, the levels are pretty good The honey is hidden pretty well throughout each level; there are keys that you have to find as well to open doors, and health pickups and extra lives are hidden throughout This is just a solid little platformer And I truly do mean little, because this is like an hour-long game at most. I mean, I beat it in like 45 minutes But it was a pretty fun 45 minutes And I didn’t even mention the story yet, either, which is a masterpiece Basically Tigger and Pooh want to throw a party for all of their friends, but they don’t have enough honey, so Tigger goes out to collect all of the honey and gather their friends so that they can throw the party… This is Shakespeare-like storytelling alright, trust me Actually, me explaining the story kind of reminds me of another shitty part of the gameplay, which is the Pooh sections Yeah, after every few levels you play as Pooh in this little minigame where you have to kill some bees before they steal your honey, so to do this you fly around on a balloon and throw acorns at them Now this sounds fine in theory, right? Well, no, because in practice these parts are dick The flying doesn’t control that well; you have to be somewhat precise with your acorn throwing, and these bees are assholes and pop your balloon a lot of the time, causing you to have to slowly walk to another one, just to have another shot at killing one of these assholes It’s annoying as hell. At first they weren’t that bad, but as the game progressed and they got harder, I tolerated them less and less Luckily, though, they aren’t a huge part of the game and don’t last that long, so that’s pretty good What’s also pretty good as well are some of these level designs Yeah, the spritework and designs of MOST of these levels are pretty good, barring the autumn level, which is kind of a mess color- and sprite-wise But besides that level, there are definitely some standouts, like the cave level… Umm... The cave level, yeah, that’s really the only great one that I can remember, but the rest are still good, don’t get me wrong The last thing that I want to say for this game, though, is that the music is unfortunately pretty ass Now I think it’s the Game Boy’s fault for it sounding this choppy and loud, but either way this music was fucking piercing; I had to turn it down like 30 notches because my ears physically could not handle what I was listening to Shitty music aside, though, again, this was overall a pretty good game Overall I don’t regret my time with it; it was a decently fun 45 minutes, and, uhh, yeah, I legitimately can’t think of anything else to say So, 3/5