PHL Collective have jumped into the licensed video game world in recent years, most notably making the Patrick Star Game. Goosebumps Terror in Little Creek is an attempt to revamp the Goosebumps series with a video game adaptation. In this review, I will detail what went right…and what went wrong.
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Goosebumps Terror in Little Creek Review
- Title: Goosebumps: Terror in Little Creek
- Developer: PHL Collective
- Publisher: GameMill Entertainment
- Primary Genre: Puzzle, Stealth, Horror
Gameplay
The gameplay loop is usually entering a room level, having massive parts blocked off, and solving puzzles until you can progress. All the while, enemies maraud around the place for stealth sections. I don’t necessarily hate it, especially the puzzle aspect, nothing is ever too insane or out of reach.
Where the game really gets let down is the stealth and enemies. Some enemies are so blind I could walk right by them and they’d do nothing, or I could trigger their attention and just leave the room, that usually stalled most of them in their tracks. Other enemies, have 20-20 vision and can see me when I’m not even aware of their presence, it’s a frustrating inconsistency.
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This makes some of the game an absolute chore to play through because I’m trying to solve puzzles and deal with the erratic enemy vision, which quickly became more hassle than it was worth as simply running away became a more useful method of solving the puzzles without worrying about the bigger enemies.
There’s also not much done to build on this very simple premise, by the third different section of puzzles and stealth it really began to drag. There’s just not much done to really spice up the gameplay sections.
Visuals
I played a LOT of licensed games back on the PS2 in my childhood so I know a thing or two about video game adaptations. I think this is the bit that Goosebumps did perfectly, the visual style has this unexplainable cartoonishness to it that makes me feel like an actual Goosebumps story came to life. If I was a kid still, then this would have absolutely blown me away.
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Goosebumps Terror in Little Creek Review – The Last Word on Gaming Viewpoint
This is a fine game, the puzzles and animation are strong but the repetitive gameplay loop and poor stealth sections made it hard to stick with. As a game aimed at younger fans of the Goosebumps series it will serve its purpose but as an actual game, the lack of exciting spins or good stealth really hurts it.
