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This is actually a game, but that doesn't change that it is one of the worst things you can watch or play. The Story is that a man carves a puppet that he knows somehow will be alive, but it immediately behaves badly stealing and running away without the man "Geppetto" going after him, but Pinocchio comes back after randomly feeling guilty without an explanation and according to the narrator "like a good son came back home" except a good son wouldn't have left in the first place, later Pinocchio goes to the theatre instead of school after he enjoys the music and uses the book Geppetto sold his only coat for as an entry fee, "I'm not complaining about that, as that did happen in the original novel", but the puppets in the show recognize him, "Despite the fact that this version doesn't establish that he knew these puppets from before he was carved into a puppet" and the director give Pinocchio 5 GOLDEN pennies to give to Geppetto after he felt sorry for them, but on Pinocchio's way home, he ran into 2 criminals "Despite the narrator saying their are 3" telling him to grow more money by burying it, and the criminals disguise themselves and take it "one says give us our money back despite the fact they were never theirs in the first place" and leave him dangling off a branch, but a fairy saves him, and shrinks his nose back down to size after it grew from him lying to her about how he ended up on the tree, and then they rush the rest of the story so fast that they must have never of heard of the word "Pacing" where Pinocchio is going to school, when a random boy convinces him to play instead, until Pinocchio turns into a donkey, randomly pulls a kart for someone, until he escapes "with the Pinocchio saying how taking it easy is the way after that which is contradictory to what's happening on screen" then Pinocchio ends up inside a shark where he finds Geppetto, and they both just walk out like it was nothing, "Why didn't Geppetto leave earlier when he didn't know Pinocchio was going to be there?" and Geppetto calls him Brave, despite the fact they don't show or say what he did to earn that, and then Pinocchio and the narrator say that Pinocchio is always going to be a puppet "with Pinocchio suddenly saying that puppets are just the most" and cutting back to the bedroom with the narrator asking if the kids watching will be good, or be bad like Pinocchio despite the fact they at the end of the story he sometimes narrates, it shows Pinocchio turning into a real boy which is shown as a great thing, "it's like they were trying to take Show, don't tell to the next level of bad by forcing them to show exactly opposite things at the same time", also when Geppetto tells him to stop being a naughty puppet toy, it shows him turning into a boy by the fairy "which is out of sync for the scene", and Pinocchio also turns into a boy, despite the fact they never show Pinocchio doing anything to deserve it, the story is as bad as I said it is. The Characters are stock characters of what they are supposed to do for the plot, expect for Pinocchio and the director, who do show signs of complexity with the director letting Pinocchio go after feeling upset for him, and Pinocchio for his change in behavior, but I don't praise either of them, as it is default due to the story not existing without it, and is an inferior and basic version of the one from the novel, and the Voice Acting ranges from generic to annoyingly bad, and the narrator's voices for Pinocchio and the fairy, sound nothing like a woman or a child. The Graphics are groundbreakingly bad, they actually look like they were drawn or computer generated on free software that children use for fun, with uneven drawings, and CG models that stand out from the 2D models being even more distracting than normal, and below that, and the movement of the models is so bland their robotic, they also didn't bother to translate the words on screen from Polish to English. The Gameplay has you do a matching tiles game with the characters faces, a match the image below game, and a section where you can paint the fairy, and that's it, the main focus is on the movie meaning this should if anything be a DVD with these being DVD games at least, but I guess the creators never heard of DVD games, considering they sometimes work with a company "Dingo Pictures" for their films, and the games themselves are as minimal and basic as they can get, not helped by the elementary school art style, making them not attractive to even look at, let alone play. The Music is the worst, anyone could create better music and lyrics without putting in any effort, they are exactly the same as intentionally bad music and lyrics. The Sound effects are so basic, that they are annoying to hear. Pinocchio by Phoenix Games has the same quality as every other Phoenix game, Dingo Picture, and Midas Entertainment product, as in they have no quality what so ever (please remember that I didn't give it any stars).

Reviewed on Apr 07, 2023


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