- Release Date: 1993
- Genre: Adventure
- Style: Third-Person Graphic Adventure
Game Description
Peter's Magic Adventure is a Myst-like adventure game for small children. As Peter, they get to explore other planets, build a dinosaur, roam the ocean, shrink down and take a tour through the grass, and participate in many more activities. The game is open-ended and the options on each screen are so many that the game is different virtually every time.Using a simple point-and-click interface, children guide Peter from screen to screen, where they can uncover animations, sounds, and links to other places. Peter talks to the user and encourages him or her to explore every option as fully as possible. Best of all, no one wins or loses in this game, and no one keeps score.
~ Brad Cook, All Game Guide
Review: Overall
"Eh."That's about the sum of the reactions this game produced in my junior reviewer, Cooper, and me. Peter's Magic Adventure should have been perfect for his six-year-old sensibilities, but he grew tired of it quickly. Perhaps it was because of the annoying screeching noise which kept coming out of the speakers in place of certain sounds.
At any rate, there wasn't much adventuring going on with Peter in this game. In fact, it doesn't really give the player a world to explore; instead, you journey through a series of static screens on which there are different things to click. One item might make some sounds or another might produce an animation, but there's no sense that everything ties together into a cohesive whole. That's a shame because a similar game we checked out, Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel, had the same point-and-click exploration format but with lots of places to explore which were part of a larger whole. Even though Cosmic Osmo doesn't have any sort of puzzle for you to solve, at least it has consistency and makes you feel like you've stepped into another place. Peter's Magic Adventure has some screens which remind me of electronic Color-forms at best.
There is almost no documentation with this game, other than some set-up instructions contained in the CD-ROM jewel case. You're left on your own to look around, but I think this game will only appeal to real little kids who are having their first experiences with a computer and need to practice pointing and clicking. They'll enjoy doing that for a while, unless their copy has the same sound bug mine had. As for me and my Junior Reviewer, well, we've got other stuff to do.
~ Brad Cook, All Game Guide
Review: Enjoyment
gets old real quickly~ Brad Cook, All Game Guide
Review: Graphics
neither really bad nor really good~ Brad Cook, All Game Guide
Review: Sound
has a very annoying bug~ Brad Cook, All Game Guide
Review: Replay Value
no thanks~ Brad Cook, All Game Guide
Review: Documentation
what documentation?~ Brad Cook, All Game Guide
Production Credits
Project conception: Jean-Yves Corre; Story: Jean-Yves Corre, Pascal Valdes; Technical Director: Patrice Bruel; Graphics and special effects: Patrice Bruel, Jean-Yves Corre, Florence Joly, Michel Prudhomme, Pascal Valdes
~ Brad Cook, All Game Guide
