Customer Reviews

Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg

5 star:		(17)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

The colorful graphics, catchy background music, and funny theme of this game make it thoroughly enjoyable for everyone. You basically maneuver Billy around a beautiful and lush 3D world, looking for and pushing/rolling giant eggs. It is hysterical when you jump on the egg and start rolling with it like a downhill "snowball". As you are either rolling or pushing the giant egg, you can destroy you enemy (sharks), jump over abysses, and crash through baracades. My 3 year old was laughing the the whole time at the funny visuals this game provided. As you roll over your enemies, this "feeds" the egg (or at least it's inhabitant), and the egg gets bigger. The egg contains an "elder" that must be fed and ultimately hatched. OK, its not "Grand Theft Auto" or "Splinter Cell", but its a great arcade game that is challenging and won't give your kids nightmares!

This is one of the most original games in ages. Play Billy Hatcher in a chicken suit rolling eggs through mazes and hatching eggs to free the Elder Chickens or morning will never return to the world. It sounds incredibly corny but it's amazingly cute and the music is very catchy.

One mode of play (described above) is Story Mode and there is also a multi-player battle mode. The only thing I wish it had was a cooperative multi-player mode and this is the only reason I did not give it 5-stars overall.

This is not a "button masher" and is good even for small children that don't read yet. If they can't read someone will need to help them out until they learn the controls but after that it's just non-stop fun!

I think the thing that attracted me the most was the creativity of the story. I mean, how many kids in chicken suits rolling eggs to save the world from evil crows have you seen lately?? SEGA and Sonicteam have been noted for this kind of creativity with Sonic. Before Sonic I had no clue what the heck an echidna was. And how many blue, loved by a pink hedgehog, high speed, save the world from an egg shaped man, hedgehogs have you seen?? Definately awesome and more for the puzzle fans then the fans of high-speed games like Sonic 2 and Sonic 1. How fast can you go rolling an egg twice you size?? But as always, for the Sonic fans enjoyment, they've put in some cameos ^^ Why don't you buy the game and find out where those cameos are? Go forth young or old game lover and buy this egg rolling disk of happiness ^^

Ah, a new Sonic Team game. After a year in the multiplatform business, gaming mastermind Yuji Naka of Sonic the Hedgehog fame decides to create a new game. Since Sonic Adventure 2 Battle a year ago was a success, why not? So he made an original game after 7 years, and I must say, he did a fine job. Sonic Team fans who don't own it, slap yourselves; this one's for you! Here's the review

This game's got a dang freaky story. The evil Dark Raven has turned the Chicken Elders into eggs, so the chicken god Menie-Funie calls Billy Hatcher to bring morning to the land. To hatch the elders you are given a rooster suit. And there's the story.

The game play is unique- using that rooster suit of yours, you get an egg, roll it around. Find some enemies, and then use the egg to beat them up. They drop fruit, and that's how they hatch and stuff. Hatch them- you could get a monster or an item. These things can seriously help you out on Billy's quest.

Graphics are pretty nice. They support a cartoony feel for younger gamers, and the characters show comical expressions on their faces to light up the face of a little kid. It's a nice touch to such a great game.

Sound is neat- it has simple guitar tunes, and then some odd little jingles. It's not a butt-rock collection, just a kid-friendly soundtrack.

Extras are basically if you collect enough chick coins you can unlock Sonic Team character eggs, like Sonic, Nights, the works. And if you hatch the right eggs, you can unlock GBA downloadable mini-games.

The bottom line is that Sonic Team made a good game when the last original game they made was 7 years ago. I'm just glad it made me SOO happy to own. I recommend it to platformer fans or Sonic Team fans or just some gamer that needs an original game.

Have the waters parted? Is it the end of the world? Has...has Sonic Team made a non-Sonic game?! Yes, it has-and while it's not the hard-working, dedicated world-beater it appeared to be at last spring's E3 show, Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg is an inspired platformer in an age when inspiration in platformers has fallen into the "yeah, let's deal with that later" category.
Young Mr. Hatcher, a bouncy kid in a chicken suit, has been whisked away to a poultry wonderland where crows have encased the world in darkness. His mission is normal enough-take back the light-but his methodology would probably make Sonic sick. Billy's only weapons in this game are eggs-very large eggs, in fact, that are found willy-nilly in each stage. Besides throwing them at (or rolling them over) enemies, Billy can hatch eggs after he's "fed" them with enough of the food that evildoers leave behind. Depending on the egg you've got in hand (there are 72 in all), you can hatch helper creatures, power-up items, energy-granting butterflies, GBA mini-games, and even a certain blue spiky animal...assuming you can find enough coins to unlock that extra. Despite the sheer novelty of rolling eggs over enemies instead of hopping on them, Billy Hatcher is just another mission-based platformer at heart. Basic game structure (not to mention a mission or two) is right from Super Mario 64-you'll know each stage like the back of your hand by the time you complete the five missions in each one. Luckily, most objectives are novel and avoid the "collect X of these" cliché like the plague-shame the controls make everything seem much harder than it actually is. The problem comes down to this, basically: Although the GameCube's got an analog stick, Billy cannot roll eggs unless he's full-on running. This forces you to run in circles, miss jumps repeatedly, and pull your hair out upon every game over. It's like the 16-bit days all over again-you'll die at one jump repeatedly, but everything after that will be so much easier. Still, this is a Sonic Team production, and as such, the platform action is addictive when it clicks. The graphics are lovely, of course, and while the multiplayer modes aren't much, everything (except the controls) is finely polished. It's nice to see Sega's studio try something new...and, even better, to see it mostly succeed. Besides...it's not just another Sonic! Yippee!

...But overall this game is fun! It's not for everyone, but not every game is. People who have no time for imaginitive fun, for example, may not enjoy this game.

I love the cartoon-ish expressions. I love the lilting, goofy music. The controls are... difficult, at times. But the originality and light-heartedness of the game make up for it. Oh, and the cameos of course. ;)

I loved it. However, I do not usually like to play too hard or violent a game. When ever I get tired of rolling baddies over, I just play multimode and hatch eggs. It's not just that though. For you blood-thirsty types, you can destroy baddies or play survival with your friends.

This game is awesome! You wouldn't know 'cuz I'm billy's #1 fan! Sonic is in it, it's a two-player, and my sister and I play it all the time. Cute characters. This game is the best!

this game is great the only thing i dont like about is that kidnergarden singing on the start menue and on the world select screen this games challege level is difficult it looks like a very little kiddy game this game is hard not as it seems on the front cover of the game wait until you play it it is worth every dime.

This game is one of the best games for Game Cube. You play as a kid named Billy who goes on an exciting adventure to save a happy world from evil crows who are led by The Dark Raven who is led by The KING CROW. And if that doesn't sound fun enough this game also comes with a really fun two player battle mode where you hatch cute animals from eggs! This fun game is for all ages!