Movies to Video Games Review — Beetlejuice (NES)

Movies To Video Games Reviews
Review #59

A FAN REQUESTED REVIEW

Please Note: The movie, Bettlejuice came out in 1988, not 1998 as I say in the vocals. I have the right date for the intro screen for the Background and Plot intro but say the wrong date during the synopsis of the movie part of the review. To clear this up. Beetlejuice came out in 1988.

Beetlejuice for the Nintendo Entertainment System (in High Definition), is fully reviewed and analyzed as compared to the actual movie itself.

Please note: The movie came out in 1988 not 1998 as I mistakenly said. A note to show that has been added to the video.

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Final score and break down of score can be found below:

They are on a 0-10 scale with 10 being the best score possible:

Story Accuracy to the Movie 4.5 out of 10
(It relates in that it has some locations and the main house from the film. Even characters within said house. Even items that relate and even scares that relate to forms found on the ghots in the film. But there is no story at all. You do stages that don’t relate to anything like a sewer and fight a wizard and if you didn’t know it was a Beetlejuice game you would have no way of recognizing that this is supposed to be something out of the film. Very loosely based on it.)

Music Soundtrack Accuracy to the Movie’s 1.5 out of 10
(The game has differing songs on each stage which was the only cool aspect to me of the music. None of it matched up to Danny Elfman’s epic soundtrack. Too much of the music sounds like something out of generic action games and not the horror / comedic film that this was. Music deserved better than what we got.)

Game Difficulty 4.0 out of 10
(Its actually a very hard game. Mostly due to jumping and hit detection against enemies sending you flying or to your quick doom. Even fighting bosses are either very difficult or overly easy depending on how things go at the given time. And dealing with the overly long Stage 3 offshoot just slows this game down to a crawl as you have to try to avoid enemies that are hard to avoid and navigate through parts of the stage by doing tasks. A lot harder than I expected and way too hard to be fun for such a short game. )

Overall Fun 3.5 out of 10
(Low frills and rushed feeling. You are playing as Beetlejuice but you can’t kill anyone, you die easily and the controls need a lot of tweaking to be properly used. I just didn’t have fun playing it. Results may vary but for me it was definitely not an enjoyable experience dying often, working through weird worlds not related to the movie and constantly getting hit by enemies that are near impossible to avoid. I wanted to like this but I just didn’t. )

Final Score: 4.25

BELOW AVERAGE

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