The Smurfs: Dreams Reviews
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The Smurfs — Dreams was a downright magical experience; although I did encounter a few things I wish had been different, they are instantly forgotten thanks to everything I loved about the game.
The Smurfs – Dreams is a nice, family-friendly platformer that can also be appealing to fans of the genre and co-op enthusiasts. Despite being short and having some optimization issues, its creative challenges and engaging mechanics make it an enjoyable adventure.
I absolutely love The Smurfs video games and with The Smurfs - Dreams, we have the best that the franchise has to offer yet.
Smurfs Dreams deserve respect for favouring approach-ability over punishment, and should be a worthwhile present to any child who loves upbeat platformers. Any adult should give this a shot as well because it's a wonderfully designed game that really deserves attention. So with all that said, go blue because these Smurfs dreams have come true.
The Smurfs - Dreams is a delightful platformer and a fantastic pickup for anyone who loves Mario 3D Land or 3D World. This is very much inspired by it on a surface level, but with more rhythm to its platforming action. It's a trickier game than one might expect given the license, which has usually been used in simpler, less-challenging games. It plays nicely across the board and doesn't have a lot of flaws in its gameplay beyond having a set formula that changes up based on the weapons you have access to in the stage itself and a soundtrack that's hit or miss.
Gargamel has tainted the Smurfs' communal dinner, causing them all to fall asleep. Papa Smurf figures out what's going on and tasks your character with infiltrating their dreams to wake them all up. And honestly? It's a dream worth having.Read More
Prepare to embark on an epic 3D platformer adventure that will transport you beyond the Smurfs' wildest imaginations!
After many years reviewing all kinds of games for this website, I thought I had seen everything, and would rarely be surprised by something that would otherwise go against the norm, or even the laws of nature. If you had told me I’d review a Smurfs game someday, and actually really like it, I’d have said you’re a lunatic. Ease off on the booze. But nope, it’s actually true. After a handful of mediocre, but otherwise arguably competent releases, the third Smurfs game published by Micro...
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Consistently and positively urprising with its level of quality and innovative ways of using the property, The Smurfs – Dreams is an unexpected treat for all platformer enthusiasts.
As a 3D platformer, The Smurfs: Dreams is simply a fun adventure that evokes smiles from the player. It's simple, with many of its puzzles not requiring much effort to solve, and even boss battles are pretty quick to master in comparison to many games on the market today. Anyone looking for a challenge, therefore, may want to move along to something else. However, the lightness of the game made it one that I enjoyed picking up at the end of the day when I just needed something to unwind with, and leave the worries of the world behind before entering my own dreams.
In the end, this game clearly has an audience, which I don’t think is most of the people reading this review. It’s not even a super quick and enjoyable 1000 gamerscore for those who may be so inclined. But for its intended audience I can see this game being a whole lot of fun and arguably more challenging in segments than one might expect. As I alluded to earlier, it’s definitely a game that I feel the developers very intentionally wanted to create a modern-day throwback to the licensed platformers of the 6th generation of consoles. They even make some welcome choices like not requiring you to recollect collectibles if you die prior to a checkpoint. Once you collect something, that’s it, it’s collected no matter what. I quite liked that. But then it’ll make other baffling choices like one towards the end of the game where you have a gauntlet sequence that combines all three of the power-ups/weapons/mechanics you’ve used throughout the game and asks you to switch between them to complete the gauntlet. But you don’t just switch between them. These power-ups are found in levels on little highlighted platforms and with this gauntlet they decided to put the three platforms a mile away from where the gauntlet takes place. This means that once you’ve completed one wave, you have to walk a mile away to grab the other power up to complete the next wave. Why not just put them right nearby? It makes the whole thing frustrating and takes way longer than it needs to.Which ultimately calls back to my biggest issue with this game as an older gamer. This game just feels way longer than it needs to be, in all the wrong ways. So much so, that even after you beat Gargamel and in turn the game, you notice there are still sleeping Smurfs in the Village that need to be woken up. The game gives you the option to then go back into the dream space and wake up even more Smurfs!! It really just never ends. But it is a really solid platformer with a tonne of variety and stuff to do. But I want to be very clear, I don’t think this game is for the gamer who actually grew up on the Smurfs. It’s for their children, who probably don’t even know who the Smurfs are. So take that advice as you will when deciding on whether to take the plunge here or not.
The Smurfs: Dreams is a functioning platformer, but never quite taps into enough of that magic to bring us an interesting experience to the namesake. They may be pretty, but these lands feel a bit vacant of charm and personality.