I will never forgive this game for tricking me into thinking it was going to be good. The first level of game gives off real potent 90's point-and-click adventure vibes with Belle walking around in town and interacting with the townsfolk with all these fun dialogue trees as Belle solves the mystery of the town's sudden drought (which, by the way, is actually a fun departure from the film to have Belle be the town hero that solves problems), and then the game progresses past that and you just get these really boring levels where Belle slowly walks around in a maze and keeps getting hit in the face with bats because she has no means of defending herself beyond a slow duck.

To this game's credit, at least it's funny bad rather than bad bad and the spritework is actually nice to look at when you're not marveling at the fact that Belle has a short platforming section where she vaults over turtles in a river or wondering why the Be Our Guest segment of this game is Belle dodging murderous forks and knives flying in her direction. The game is so short (there's only four levels and none of them last very long) that I actually kind of low-key recommend this for people looking to comb the Sega Genesis library for hidden gems, if only for the hilarious West Wing section of the game where Belle has to parkour on castle balconies in high heels while every bat in the forest tries to end her life.

Also, if I owned this game as a kid, I would've just kept playing that book collecting minigame over and over rather than playing past the town level. That's where the real action is.