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- Reviewed on: 07/01/2005
- Released on: 04/24/2005
- Originally published on GameSpot: Hugo: The Evil Mirror (Game Boy Advance) Review
Hugo: The Evil Mirror is a platform-style puzzler that's clearly aimed toward a young audience. Older players will laugh (at least, they ought to) at the game's simplistic controls, straightforward puzzles, and rudimentary graphics--but those same traits are exactly what make Hugo so appropriate for young players.
Massive monsters can be hatched out of large ice formations.
The story concerns the game's namesake, Hugo, who has been imprisoned inside a magical mirror by an evil witch named Scylla. She has broken the mirror into three individual pieces and has stocked away each piece in a different area of Tricky Troll Forest. Now it's up to Hugo's children, which are the real stars of the game, to locate and retrieve each piece.
Each individual piece of the mirror is guarded by a different boss creature, but before you can do battle with the baddie in question, you have to make it through the roughly 20 levels leading up to the boss' chamber. Those levels are set up as large "rooms" populated with platforms, monsters, and a number of monster generators. Little Hugo's main weapon is a freeze ray, which can shut down monster generators and transform monsters into ice cubes for brief periods of time. Once you've put the freeze on all of the generators and monsters within the level, you're whisked away to the next one to do it all over again.
Some monsters and generators can't be reached by jumping alone. That's where those monster cubes come in. Cubes can be picked up, pushed, and used as stepping-stones, allowing the player to climb up to areas that would otherwise be off-limits. Another neat twist here is that cubes can also be mixed together and shattered to reveal score crystals and power-up items, respectively. Many times, shattering a giant ice block will unleash a powerful megamonster, which you can then refreeze for an even better bonus.
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