Andrew Fisher (697) on 10/9/2023 9:00 PM · Permalink · Report

Actually Infogrames made North and South in 1989, based on Les Tuniques Bleues, very fun and amusing game. But I played Tintin in Tibet a couple of years after it came out and it looked great, very true to the comics, but a lot of ridiculous ways of turning comic plot into gameplay. The Smurfs looks very nice, especially the map view in between stages, but play is pretty average, gets old and boring, including the boss fights, the fight with Gargamel at the end had a kind of stupid idea, the only way to damage him is by tricking his bird into dropping an acorn on the end of a see-saw then launching it at Gargamel's head and you have to do this as continuously as possible to knock Gargamel off the roof of his lair, get his key and rescue Smurfette. So yeah, like Infogrames' Tintin in Tibet and probably also Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun, nice looking, true to the artists' drawings, but lame to play and you'd rather be reading the comic or watching an animated adapt.