Shrek Treasure Hunt
released on Nov 18, 2002
Players control Shrek on a quest to find ten missing picnic items stolen by the Three Blind Mice. The result is an adventure through ten different locales linked together by the swamp. Players guide Shrek from a third-person perspective as they avoid mischievous swamp critters trying to stun them. Each area contains a mini-game that will reveal one of the lost picnic items once completed. The catch? Shrek must first collect a specific number of items to gain access to the mini-game.
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This is the only Shrek game that was ever made for the PS1, and with that special distinction, it actually possesses some good and cute design elements.
I love the Very Playstation slime lettering and the loading screen visuals that are genuinely really fun renders of stuff like: snails. The Playstation aesthetic fits beautifully onto Shrek in a way the Gamecube simply could not quite match. But whatever, I was a PS1 child. Of course I'm gonna say that. But listen... it's good. It's giving a little bit of Abe's Oddysee. Do you think Abe and Shrek would team up?
The gameplay is very simple, you run around and collect ten pieces of cheese to unlock a mini game, you play that mini game (a very easy button recognition game), and then you go to a different area and collect thirty horseshoes to unlock another mini game, and so on and so on.
The mini games themselves are varied. The button pressing one in the first area ("The Swamp", no surprise here) is super easy, but the platforming one where you must not allow Shrek to get dunked in lava is more of a challenge.
It's a neat, if clunky, platformer and it's probably one of the most fun to play Shrek games of them all. Collectathon platforming is what's good in this accursed life, and Shrek is welcome in this space.
The funniest thing about the game is possibly the fact that there are no real enemies, just animals that shove you to the ground in a way that doesn't hurt you, because you simply do not have depletable health.
Good. Shrek should be impermeable.
Edit: Here's my full look at ALL of Shrek's games: https://youtu.be/uOPKpZAI2wc
I love the Very Playstation slime lettering and the loading screen visuals that are genuinely really fun renders of stuff like: snails. The Playstation aesthetic fits beautifully onto Shrek in a way the Gamecube simply could not quite match. But whatever, I was a PS1 child. Of course I'm gonna say that. But listen... it's good. It's giving a little bit of Abe's Oddysee. Do you think Abe and Shrek would team up?
The gameplay is very simple, you run around and collect ten pieces of cheese to unlock a mini game, you play that mini game (a very easy button recognition game), and then you go to a different area and collect thirty horseshoes to unlock another mini game, and so on and so on.
The mini games themselves are varied. The button pressing one in the first area ("The Swamp", no surprise here) is super easy, but the platforming one where you must not allow Shrek to get dunked in lava is more of a challenge.
It's a neat, if clunky, platformer and it's probably one of the most fun to play Shrek games of them all. Collectathon platforming is what's good in this accursed life, and Shrek is welcome in this space.
The funniest thing about the game is possibly the fact that there are no real enemies, just animals that shove you to the ground in a way that doesn't hurt you, because you simply do not have depletable health.
Good. Shrek should be impermeable.
Edit: Here's my full look at ALL of Shrek's games: https://youtu.be/uOPKpZAI2wc
Are you too happy with life? Do you find yourself experiencing too much joy in your day-to-day? Do you want a little bit of misery? Well, from the hands of some clearly very troubled individuals comes Shrek Treasure Hunt, a reminder that, no matter how much good humanity can do, we can do just as much, if not more, bad.