- Platform: Game Boy Advance
- ESRB Rating:
Everyone - Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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Pinobee: Wings of Adventure's cute-as-a-button story line, in which a famous honeybee inventor creates a Pinocchio-like robot bee but gets kidnapped before he can install the heart, makes it stand out among other 2-D side-scrolling adventure games, but its gameplay never feels particularly innovative or surprising.
As mentioned, the heartless Pinobee must rescue his doddering inventor, Grampa Bee, through several stages of insect mayhem. He can jump, cling to walls, and has a "dash" ability that lets him briefly shoot forward through the air. The gameplay involves killing enemies, collecting power-ups and flowers for energy, dashing about, and navigating puzzles and traps. Pinobee has an energy meter that counts down as he moves around. Flowers replenish the meter, but if it reaches zero he becomes sluggish. Occasionally he'll run into a fairy that grants him new dash powers and a cricket that advances the story. There's also a diary you can read between levels that gives you a synopsis of Pinobee's search for his Grampa.
While the game itself features a lot of inventive takes on the 2-D adventure genre, they are, at best, merely recycled from other games. The diary is mostly useless, due to limp writing, which is probably itself the fault of a poor translation from the original Japanese text. But Pinobee's cute and inoffensive nature makes it perfect for kids. Also, Pinobee has the advantage of being one of the only nonsequel launch games for the Game Boy Advance. Out of all the 2-D side scrollers you'll find at launch time--and there are quite a few of them--this is the only one you haven't played before. --Andrew S. Bub
Pros:
- Interesting new ideas for the genre
- Great for kids
- Nice graphics
- Bad writing
- Somewhat tired gameplay
Product Description
Pinobee: Wings of Adventure takes full advantage of Game Boy Advance's 32-bit color graphics. From Pinobee's fluid animation to the detailed environments he explores, it's obvious that a lot of spit and polish has been applied to this Pak. Pinobee screenshots may lead you to believe that this is a standard action platform game, but that is far from an accurate description. Pinobee can walk along the ground or shimmy up walls, but his main means of locomotion is dashing through the air. As he makes it deeper in his quest, Pinobee gains the ability to dash farther and farther through the air. Soon enough, he's spending more time hovering and dashing through the sky than on the ground. This unique play control system gives Pinobee a fresh feel.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
An interesting platformer with great graphics.,
By Carlos A Garcia II (Plymouth, MN United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pinobee: Wings of Adventure (Video Game)
First off, let me state for the record that Pinobee is definitely aimed at children. When I say interesting, I use this term very loosely. Pinobee stars a bee who must journey through bug land in his many adventures. You start out as a little bee whose only ability is to jump on opponents, which is the typical method of attack in most platformers. As Pinobee progresses through the levels, he meets a fairy butterfly that gives him the ability to mid-air dash. Each dash is a short lived burst of speed. You can hover in the air shortly between dashes. The more dash power the fairy gives you, the more times you can dash, but you seemingly never achieve real flight. Learning to dash allows you to charge some enemies as another viable form of attacking. Pinobee was graphically impressive. I'm having difficulty deciphering , but it looks like they used polygons for the game. There are just some characters that seem sprite based. For Pinobee himself, I am very impressed at the level of detail used. For the majority of the enemies, they seem to fall to a grainier resolution. This inconsistency can make it difficult to determine what you are really attacking. The backgrounds are well constructed, giving the feeling of being in a flowerbed as well as the caves in Phase 2. I do find it annoying that Pinobee looks at the screen with a balloon head effect every time you use his last Dash and when he gets hurt. Pinobee seems to fall victim to the mindless, childish action game trap. Progression through levels is very linear, and levels do not seem to differ from the previous. It seems as if there was a predetermined template for levels and minor alterations were made to each. This enforces a strong sense of monotony. At the end of every level, you find Pinobee reading passages from a book. Though I have tried to make sense of them, they just do not seem to put together any real form of a story. Every time you encounter another non-hostile bug, Pinobee takes time to chat with them, using "Blah Blah Blah" as his choice of words. It would be so much nicer if Pinobee would obtain some new weapons or abilities from these seemingly pointless encounters...
2.0 out of 5 stars
Do not buy this game.,
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This review is from: Pinobee: Wings of Adventure (Video Game)
This game is plagued with bad controls and boring levels which all look the same. The plot is weak to begin with and the story progresses slowly. Maybe it's because I bought it used without the instruction manual but I really did not enjoy this game one bit. The only reason I gave it two stars is because it's possible I'm a little too old for the game.It's only for little kids who are used to Mario-type sidescrollers.
4.0 out of 5 stars
An 'A' for effort,
By A Customer
This review is from: Pinobee: Wings of Adventure (Video Game)
Believe me when I tell you that this bee is worth it. Pinobee has the basic storyline of Pinocchio, except the puppet is a robot bee who wants a heart so he can be a real boy...err...I mean, insect. This game is a platformer, but the people at Activision have messed with the genre a bit. Rather than going up floors, you fly. You can't fly forever, so you only "run in air" for a short stretch. You use Dash Power to fly, and you must use it effectively to get through the sky to secret areas containing power-ups that will give you better abilities. This is not your run-of-the-mill platformer. This brings more takes to the platform genre, with meaningful collectibles like a Golden Bug that you defeat to make enemies easier in future levels. But the Golden Bug is quite hard to find. The diary entries at the end of each level are nice, progressing the story well and adding charm to the game. Good music, good sound, nice graphics and levels that you must return to when you have new power-ups. These aspects add to a game that was obviously worked hard, and the hard work came through. It is very fun and cool.
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