Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was one of my favorite films as a kid. A classic film starring Gene Wilder filled with adventure and whimsy… We’re not talking about that one. The Tim Burton remake, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which felt more drab but at least the visuals were nice… also not what we’re talking about, technically. The video game, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for PS2, published by Warner Bros. Interactive, who now own the Mortal Kombat license. Weird, mentioning Mortal Kombat in each article thus far. The game was developed by High Voltage Software, who are still around today and worked on a portion of the Saints Row series, the modern Mortal Kombat games, and Zombieland: Double Tap as of recently. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory advertises itself as being able to explore the factory at your own leisure, so enjoying the factory myself as a kid, maybe it will be fun…. Yeah, I wish.
The title screen looks promising, has a nice whimsical tone to it and the factory looks nice, but sadly, this is where the pleasantries come to a halt. Be it my scratched disc or be it a part of all copies of the game, the game just dumps you into the world with no opening story or nothing. I assumed that it was my disc just skipping it, but after the first level, you get a cutscene that shows Chapter 1 and then it goes to Chapter 2 in the next cutscene, so I don’t know. The camera controls are hard inverted and go at an alarmingly fast rate, and they just make me feel ill. Speaking of ill, Charlie looks a little… malnourished. I know he’s poor and stuff, but he legit looks like he crawled out of Hiroshima after the bombs dropped. The game puts you into a long line and makes you walk down it trying to collect a single dollar, doing all sorts of wonky platforming on boxes and taking notice of collision glitches like giant snowballs clipping into the boxes. This is then followed up by a reasonably enjoyable section where you control Charlie as he slides down the road on a trash can lid, avoiding trucks and garbage cans. It’s short, basic, but enjoyable for what it is. But trust me, once you get to the factory, it’s all over. This is where the game shows just how boring it truly is.
The cutscenes have these characters looking really… deformed. Charlie looks fine, even if he has the black soulless eyes of a demon, but everyone else is so oddly detailed and they look kinda gross. Agustus looks like a whitewashed Fat Albert, Veruca’s big eyes piss me off, and you got Mike Teavee out here looking like fucking Johnny Test. But the most disgusting thing here are the Oompa-Loompas. They did this actor dirty. Their introduction is honestly horrifying. They run around at high speed all around Charlie with this distorted sound. It’s like something out of Predator. Once the game starts, you are tasked with collecting Oompa-Loompas to do tasks for you while you lead them. Think Pikmin but far more tedious. The Oompa-Loompas always take their sweet time to do the task you order the too and sometimes just run around for minutes before finally finishing the task. And just you wait until you gotta make them collect fast running creatures that don’t make any sense existing in the factory, because that’s a real mess. You can stun the creatures by hitting them with Gobstoppers, yes, the candy you eat, but the lock on is so wonky that it will go all over the place before finally landing on the creature, and even then, it’s not a guarantee you’ll hit them. I didn’t realize I had to hit these things several times before I could advance to the next level. I walked around the first area of the factory for thirty minutes and ended up collecting all the collectables by accident before I realized what to do. But the second level is where I just gave up on this game. You gotta get Agustus out of the chocolate pipe, which looks more like he’s being grinded to a literal gooey mush with the bad animations and colors. To save him, you gotta close three vents, to do that, you gotta trap robots using jelly beans (Please don’t ask). But the ball will never always hit the vents and you have to roll it at the vents because the vents are surrounded by sharp thorns. If you walk into them, you get hurt and knocked back out. But if the ball is already too far into the vines, you either gotta wait for the robot to leave the ball or just kill yourself and reset the room. And Once you finally close the vents, you get to do it several more times. At that point, I had enough of this tedious mess and just quit.
I can only imagine how many children who enjoyed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory got this game only to get what feels like more of a chore than a game. I will give credit, the music is really well orchestrated and the idea of exploring the factory is a decent idea. I always loved exploring the worlds of characters from TV shows and movies, like the town of Halloween Town in the Nightmare Before Christmas game or Bikini Bottom in any of the Spongebob games. Too bad the grass hurts my eyes in the factory. Those compliments don’t outway the mountain of tedium. So no matter what, the game is still a boring mess and you still spent money on this trash and despite giving the company your money for it, you get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!
The title screen looks promising, has a nice whimsical tone to it and the factory looks nice, but sadly, this is where the pleasantries come to a halt. Be it my scratched disc or be it a part of all copies of the game, the game just dumps you into the world with no opening story or nothing. I assumed that it was my disc just skipping it, but after the first level, you get a cutscene that shows Chapter 1 and then it goes to Chapter 2 in the next cutscene, so I don’t know. The camera controls are hard inverted and go at an alarmingly fast rate, and they just make me feel ill. Speaking of ill, Charlie looks a little… malnourished. I know he’s poor and stuff, but he legit looks like he crawled out of Hiroshima after the bombs dropped. The game puts you into a long line and makes you walk down it trying to collect a single dollar, doing all sorts of wonky platforming on boxes and taking notice of collision glitches like giant snowballs clipping into the boxes. This is then followed up by a reasonably enjoyable section where you control Charlie as he slides down the road on a trash can lid, avoiding trucks and garbage cans. It’s short, basic, but enjoyable for what it is. But trust me, once you get to the factory, it’s all over. This is where the game shows just how boring it truly is.
The cutscenes have these characters looking really… deformed. Charlie looks fine, even if he has the black soulless eyes of a demon, but everyone else is so oddly detailed and they look kinda gross. Agustus looks like a whitewashed Fat Albert, Veruca’s big eyes piss me off, and you got Mike Teavee out here looking like fucking Johnny Test. But the most disgusting thing here are the Oompa-Loompas. They did this actor dirty. Their introduction is honestly horrifying. They run around at high speed all around Charlie with this distorted sound. It’s like something out of Predator. Once the game starts, you are tasked with collecting Oompa-Loompas to do tasks for you while you lead them. Think Pikmin but far more tedious. The Oompa-Loompas always take their sweet time to do the task you order the too and sometimes just run around for minutes before finally finishing the task. And just you wait until you gotta make them collect fast running creatures that don’t make any sense existing in the factory, because that’s a real mess. You can stun the creatures by hitting them with Gobstoppers, yes, the candy you eat, but the lock on is so wonky that it will go all over the place before finally landing on the creature, and even then, it’s not a guarantee you’ll hit them. I didn’t realize I had to hit these things several times before I could advance to the next level. I walked around the first area of the factory for thirty minutes and ended up collecting all the collectables by accident before I realized what to do. But the second level is where I just gave up on this game. You gotta get Agustus out of the chocolate pipe, which looks more like he’s being grinded to a literal gooey mush with the bad animations and colors. To save him, you gotta close three vents, to do that, you gotta trap robots using jelly beans (Please don’t ask). But the ball will never always hit the vents and you have to roll it at the vents because the vents are surrounded by sharp thorns. If you walk into them, you get hurt and knocked back out. But if the ball is already too far into the vines, you either gotta wait for the robot to leave the ball or just kill yourself and reset the room. And Once you finally close the vents, you get to do it several more times. At that point, I had enough of this tedious mess and just quit.
I can only imagine how many children who enjoyed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory got this game only to get what feels like more of a chore than a game. I will give credit, the music is really well orchestrated and the idea of exploring the factory is a decent idea. I always loved exploring the worlds of characters from TV shows and movies, like the town of Halloween Town in the Nightmare Before Christmas game or Bikini Bottom in any of the Spongebob games. Too bad the grass hurts my eyes in the factory. Those compliments don’t outway the mountain of tedium. So no matter what, the game is still a boring mess and you still spent money on this trash and despite giving the company your money for it, you get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!
Pretend powers-
1.) get some thin string that looks invisible.
2.) tie it to some thing like paper, a piece of cardboard or a card stock door sign.
3.) lightly tie other end of string to ur finger. Hold ur hand like zac from mako mermaids does when he's using his powers.
4.) when people are looking, start to pull lightly while using ur "powers" to pull the object.
You can amaze people with this. I've wanted to do this stuff for a long time.
Moon pool-
1.) get a kiddie pool ( plastic or inflatable ).
2.) put rocks about 5 in. big around the side of the pool. ( if it's inflatable u don't have to do this. )
3.) fill pool with water and pack sand around the sides of the pool if u put rocks on the sides.
4.) put on ur tail and sit in the pool. Enjoy!!!
Thank u everyone for reading this article and I hope it works for everyone that read it.
1.) get some thin string that looks invisible.
2.) tie it to some thing like paper, a piece of cardboard or a card stock door sign.
3.) lightly tie other end of string to ur finger. Hold ur hand like zac from mako mermaids does when he's using his powers.
4.) when people are looking, start to pull lightly while using ur "powers" to pull the object.
You can amaze people with this. I've wanted to do this stuff for a long time.
Moon pool-
1.) get a kiddie pool ( plastic or inflatable ).
2.) put rocks about 5 in. big around the side of the pool. ( if it's inflatable u don't have to do this. )
3.) fill pool with water and pack sand around the sides of the pool if u put rocks on the sides.
4.) put on ur tail and sit in the pool. Enjoy!!!
Thank u everyone for reading this article and I hope it works for everyone that read it.
I made a new friend yesterday at my high school.His name is Anthony and we have some things in common which is great!
I'm so glad we met each other.Tomorrow I'll hang out with him again and maybe go to his place.He actually lives right across the street from me.So that means we get to walk to school together!!
Friendship is a great thing in life,and I'm glad I have a new friend to be with and chat with.My mom and dad always knew I could do it and I also thought that I would meet someone.
You could also make a friend and maybe you have something in common with that person.And who knows maybe your new friend lives right by you,if not at least you still see them or talk to them. :)
I'm so glad we met each other.Tomorrow I'll hang out with him again and maybe go to his place.He actually lives right across the street from me.So that means we get to walk to school together!!
Friendship is a great thing in life,and I'm glad I have a new friend to be with and chat with.My mom and dad always knew I could do it and I also thought that I would meet someone.
You could also make a friend and maybe you have something in common with that person.And who knows maybe your new friend lives right by you,if not at least you still see them or talk to them. :)
Okay..
So. I saw this movie once.
I can agree much of the acting is hard to take seriously.
But it's a lot better then people give it credit for..
The one thing that reached my attention when reading the reviews of this movie.
Is that someone stated that using a "blonde" girl wasn't a good choice..
But here's why that upsets me so much.
A girl I knew, Dean. Was one of the most popular girls in my school (yes, she was blonde). Was struck by cyber bullying.
And you know what happened?
She killed herself!
Yeah.
My best friend, KILLED HERSELF!
So.
Yeah..
Now you know why I was effected so strongly by this movie..
And fuck cyber bullies!
Fuck them all!!
So. I saw this movie once.
I can agree much of the acting is hard to take seriously.
But it's a lot better then people give it credit for..
The one thing that reached my attention when reading the reviews of this movie.
Is that someone stated that using a "blonde" girl wasn't a good choice..
But here's why that upsets me so much.
A girl I knew, Dean. Was one of the most popular girls in my school (yes, she was blonde). Was struck by cyber bullying.
And you know what happened?
She killed herself!
Yeah.
My best friend, KILLED HERSELF!
So.
Yeah..
Now you know why I was effected so strongly by this movie..
And fuck cyber bullies!
Fuck them all!!
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I'm hear to tell u the truth about utubers like jerry travone Ryan higa and takeshotaction
I hear that They are all ducebags they do stuff like cheat there subs by tricking them
And they also are racist saying stuff against asians likens saying fuck Asians they r the worst of the world who need to die which is bullshit
Asians are awesome
And they also love to be haters and they also hacked my Facebook
Fuck them all and takeshotaction cheats on his girlfriend
Jerry travone abuses Hiskids and ryanhiga is succussful
"Break Your Heart"
Whoa whoa
Now listen to me baby
Before I love and leave you
They call me heart breaker
I don't wanna deceive you
[Chorus:]
If you fall for me
I'm not easy to please
I might tear you apart
Told you from the start,
Baby from the start.
I'm only gonna break, break your, break, break your heart. [4x]
Whoa whoa
There's no point trying to hide it
No point trying to evade it
I know I got a problem
Problem with misbehaving
[Chorus]
I'm only gonna break, break your, break, break your heart. [4x]
Whoa whoa [2x]
And I know karma's gonna get me back for being so cold
Like a big bad wolf I'm born to be bad and bad to the bone
If you fall for me I'm only gonna tear you apart
Told ya from the start.
I'm only gonna break, break your, break, break your heart. [4x]
Whoa whoa whoa.... [4x]
Whoa whoa
Now listen to me baby
Before I love and leave you
They call me heart breaker
I don't wanna deceive you
[Chorus:]
If you fall for me
I'm not easy to please
I might tear you apart
Told you from the start,
Baby from the start.
I'm only gonna break, break your, break, break your heart. [4x]
Whoa whoa
There's no point trying to hide it
No point trying to evade it
I know I got a problem
Problem with misbehaving
[Chorus]
I'm only gonna break, break your, break, break your heart. [4x]
Whoa whoa [2x]
And I know karma's gonna get me back for being so cold
Like a big bad wolf I'm born to be bad and bad to the bone
If you fall for me I'm only gonna tear you apart
Told ya from the start.
I'm only gonna break, break your, break, break your heart. [4x]
Whoa whoa whoa.... [4x]