Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights (GameCube)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 3.5 stars Very good
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 7.3 (3.5 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Frank Provo
• Reviewed on: 09/25/2002
• Released on: 09/16/2002
• Originally published on GameSpot: Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights (GameCube) Review

It's rare when an adventure game based on a cartoon license turns out to be decent, let alone enjoyable. Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights is one of those exceptions. Even though it's certainly not the next Super Mario Sunshine, the gameplay is at least on par with that of other third-party platformers for the GameCube, and the dialogue totally captures the spirit of the Scooby-Doo cartoon characters.

Throughout the game, you control Mystery Inc.'s canine mascot, Scooby-Doo, who is best known for such timeless phrases as "Ree hee hee," "Ruh-roe," and "Scooby dooby doo!" All these phrases are present as speech samples in the game, and you'll hear them repeatedly, since Scooby is the only character onscreen during the actual gameplay. Conveniently, the rest of the gang disappears at the beginning of the game, abducted by a new villain known only as the Mastermind. This leaves it up to Scooby-Doo to explore the 14 different areas and more than 84 levels of the mansion in order to rescue his friends.

Scooby's basic actions are fairly standard, in that he can run, jump, and bash monsters. It's the inventions scattered throughout the mansion that give this game some depth. Some of the better items include a shovel for digging up treasure, galoshes for trudging through tar, and an umbrella that enables Scooby to float through the air. In order to solve the case, you need to track down these inventions and gather the required number of Scooby Snacks in order to gain access to all 14 areas of the mansion.

The gameplay feels generic at times, but never to the extent that the Scooby-Doo license seems pasted on. The majority of the areas in the mansion are the typical sorts of situations you've come to expect from 3D platformers--namely, switch puzzles, platform jumping, slippery surfaces, rope swings, and the occasional battle against a boss character. The game does its best to keep things interesting by varying the presentation of these situations, so sometimes you'll navigate an area that is fully 3D and allows for unlimited exploration, while at other times your movement is limited to the horizontal or vertical axis and involves leaping over pits or avoiding a rampaging flood.

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