✅75%
Toy Story 3 is one of my all-time favorite movies, and this adaptation was honestly a surprise. I remember when I was younger I couldn't get past the train section at the beginning. Oh how my skills have grown. The train section was the perfect way for this game to start off not only because that's how the movie opens, but because it has "high stakes" action for a kids/family game and introduces the mechanics really well. After that, it sends you in two directions: the story mode and toy box mode. Story mode was the toys retelling the events of Toy Story 3 and the before and after in bits and pieces, and I'd say it has a lot of memorable things. You get to play through the opening of Toy Story 2 which is a heck of a lot of fun and there's also the junkyard portion which brings all the mechanics and characters into a great penultimate mission. Sometimes it can feel like it's steering off track of the main movie mission with an extended portion of playing in Bonnie's room, but all of the missions are really fun and provide something unique. There isn't anything super notable in the gameplay, but what it does to respect the IP and provide a story mode that doesn't actually suck gives it points.
Then we get to Toy Box mode which made the inner Disney Infinity geek want to scream. I didn't know how much Infinity borrowed from Toy Box mode before I played this, and I truly see the inspiration. The music, sound effects, mechanics, set pieces, controls, and gameplay are all transferred from Toy Box mode to Disney Infinity. The race beacon is even the same! I'm not discrediting Infinity for borrowing too much, but it made me find more stuff in the Toy Box mode to do. The Toy Box mode is basically a Disney Infinity playset but if it was in Infinity I'd consider it one of the better ones. You get to hang out in Woody's Roundup's western town with a big mine, but there's so much else to do. You go through a haunted Sid's house, Lotso's enchated garden, and Zurg's space station. All of these use unique mechanics that are so fun. Woody with a laser gun? Ok! Woody riding a dragon? Awesome! The Toy Box has a lot of repetitive missions of just dressing up townspeople and buildings, but there are so many standouts in the Toy Box. The final main mission can feel a little underwhelming, but it gives you a fun cutscene to end it all off.
Toy Story 3 The Video Game isn't special by any means, but for inspiring Disney Infinity, respecting the Toy Story IP so well and giving great missions like the Buzz Lightyear video game and the Toy Box mode as a whole, it gives an incredible experience for Toy Story fans. Easily one of the better movie to game adaptations!
Toy Story 3 is one of my all-time favorite movies, and this adaptation was honestly a surprise. I remember when I was younger I couldn't get past the train section at the beginning. Oh how my skills have grown. The train section was the perfect way for this game to start off not only because that's how the movie opens, but because it has "high stakes" action for a kids/family game and introduces the mechanics really well. After that, it sends you in two directions: the story mode and toy box mode. Story mode was the toys retelling the events of Toy Story 3 and the before and after in bits and pieces, and I'd say it has a lot of memorable things. You get to play through the opening of Toy Story 2 which is a heck of a lot of fun and there's also the junkyard portion which brings all the mechanics and characters into a great penultimate mission. Sometimes it can feel like it's steering off track of the main movie mission with an extended portion of playing in Bonnie's room, but all of the missions are really fun and provide something unique. There isn't anything super notable in the gameplay, but what it does to respect the IP and provide a story mode that doesn't actually suck gives it points.
Then we get to Toy Box mode which made the inner Disney Infinity geek want to scream. I didn't know how much Infinity borrowed from Toy Box mode before I played this, and I truly see the inspiration. The music, sound effects, mechanics, set pieces, controls, and gameplay are all transferred from Toy Box mode to Disney Infinity. The race beacon is even the same! I'm not discrediting Infinity for borrowing too much, but it made me find more stuff in the Toy Box mode to do. The Toy Box mode is basically a Disney Infinity playset but if it was in Infinity I'd consider it one of the better ones. You get to hang out in Woody's Roundup's western town with a big mine, but there's so much else to do. You go through a haunted Sid's house, Lotso's enchated garden, and Zurg's space station. All of these use unique mechanics that are so fun. Woody with a laser gun? Ok! Woody riding a dragon? Awesome! The Toy Box has a lot of repetitive missions of just dressing up townspeople and buildings, but there are so many standouts in the Toy Box. The final main mission can feel a little underwhelming, but it gives you a fun cutscene to end it all off.
Toy Story 3 The Video Game isn't special by any means, but for inspiring Disney Infinity, respecting the Toy Story IP so well and giving great missions like the Buzz Lightyear video game and the Toy Box mode as a whole, it gives an incredible experience for Toy Story fans. Easily one of the better movie to game adaptations!