Namco Bandai Games Europe recently offered the one and only lasagna-loving lord of laziness a comeback with the launch of Garfield’s Wild Ride on smartphones and tablets. Following that success, Garfield has finally found a way to run off some of those calories with the help of gamers on Windows PC and Mac, as Garfield’s Wild Ride is set to launch on PC systems soon.
You know when you’ve been playing a game of an evening, and you can still see it in your mind’s eye when you go to sleep? Match-three puzzlers have a habit of doing it to me. Well, Garfield isn’t an obvious choice for an endless runner, so Namco-Bandai have had to set Wild Ride in his dreams. And he’s evidently been playing Jetpack Joyride.
"The problem with licensed games is prescience. If I sit down to play a ninja turtles game, I expect martial arts fighting, pizza jokes, and some excellent compadre-style cooperation, and if the experience is altered even a little, I’ll be taken aback. Garfield’s Wild Ride, iOS and Android game based on the lovable oaf of a cat, does nothing remotely similar to a Garfield comic strip. The once lasagna-loving tabby cat is transported into a Jetpack Joyride-like, side-scrolling runner, where the goal is survival and the collection of coins, and nothing feels Garfield-esque. I’d be willing to forgive the developers if the game had the addictive ingenuity of Joyride, but Garfield’s Wild Ride is nothing more than a misplaced use of a license on an obvious market cash-in." (DarkZero)
How does this even exist? Garfield isn't exactly known for running he's a lazy sarcastic cat maybe if there was a lasagna somewhere he would run to it but it just seems strange to me.
ZOMGPlay's Review of Garfield's Wild Ride for the iOS Platform:
"Garfield’s Wild Ride is Namco Bandai Games attempt at bringing an ‘endless runner’ game to the iOS and Android platforms, but how does it compare to the fan favourite Temple Run or the highly popular Sonic Dash? Well we find out in our quick review of the game."
"...lasagna-loving lord of laziness..."
That sounds exactly like the development quality of this kind of game.
"...single-finger gameplay..."
It's a runner, okay? It's a runner. He runs.