If you were a kid at anytime in the last 30 years, you probably know the name Scooby-Doo. From the original cartoon, and the dozens of cartoon show spin offs, all the way to the two live action movies, the great dane and his mystery solving team have been a pop culture staple for the past few decades.
The newest series goes back to the beginning, show how Mystery inc. got started, and those meddling kids ended up working together.
Though they'd never developed a more sophisticated story-based game game before, Australian independent developer Torus Games took on the challenge of working with Warner Bros. on Scooby-Doo! First Frights -- and in this postmortem, outlines how the small team delivered a Wii game that lives up to the ideas and ideals it started with.
This is a game definitely aimed at the lower end of the age bracket. If it's the case that Scooby Doo himself is the drawing point of the title then by all means give it a go; it's a playable game that does nothing to strongly offend. But there are better, smarter and more fun titles out there that look down on First Frights and laugh. Oh, how they laugh.
Scooby-Doo! First Frights is a surprisingly well made little game. It's always nice to see a licenced kids title with actual effort put into in. While the game doesn't try anything fancy and borrows heavily from the LEGO formula, it's still very fun for what it is. Younger fans will have a blast, especially in co-op.
