Customer Reviews

Ratatouille

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The Ratatouille PC game is really fun. There are six levels and plenty of interesting mini-games. The game doesn't follow the storyline of the movie, but it is still fun to play. Many of the actors from the film voice their characters, including Patton Oswalt as Remy, and Lou Ramono as Linguini.The only downside is that the game is sort of difficult, considering it's meant for kids to play, and the instructions are vague. For Example: For most of the activities in the game, you need to use the Context Move button, but they don't mention in the game itself or the booklet exactly what button on the keyboard that is. After much expirimentation, i discovered it was the G Button. Aside from that, it's a very cute game.

I agree with the other reviewers that it takes some experimentation to find the "Context Move" and other command buttons. It's as if someone took their original programming terminology directly to the user manual. It's not your typical mouse (no pun intended) and directional arrows computer game such as those found on Nick Jr and Noggin, so I improvised to help my daughter get used to the new controls. I used cut-up blank address labels to label main keys used in the game. After a short learning curve, she caught on and was on her way through the streets of Paris. Once you get used to using the keys and understanding the "language" used in the on-screen instructions, it becomes a fun and clever game that complements the movie well. Depending on your child's age, there is some game play that's challenging and requires grown-up assistance or four hands (eg, running, jumping, action buttons).

Just remember:

Context Move = "G" key - used for ANY action such as a tail swing, pick up an item, drop item, swing an object, grab onto netting, landing on narrow objects that are twinkling in blue such as a post, shutter handle, or high wire.

The mouse can also be used for camera angles.

You can reprogram the keys as you see fit when you first launch the program. If you want to make things really easy, buy a compatible PC/Mac game controller so that "Anyone Can Cook!"

I thought this game was going to be perfect. It is not perfect. You have to figure out some controls in this game. Here are the list of the controls you need to know:

Context Move Button- "G"
Minigame Action left button- "U"
Minigame Action right button- "I"

i figured out all of these controls quicky. The graphics,the gameplay,and the dreamworlds were great.The gameplay can be a little difficult. The dreamworlds were so unique because some of them were based on foods like fruit and meats. They are also based on dishes and other kitchen products. BUY THIS GAME!!

This game is fun once you figure out what the Context move button is. I did thanks to another reviewer, but before then their was nothing about a context move button in the controls. Now I am having a great time. I would recomend this if you like adventure games because this is a good one!

Mouse tracking is horrible.
Controls don't work smoothly.
Even the menu interface is bad.
How can you get this wrong? Some menus are missing a 'return', and Esc does not take you back. Instead, you need to use the delete key above the arrows (not documented, and certainly counterintuitive). Even clicking on the menu items is awkward, with the cheesy pointer and poorly laid out hot spots.
Feels more like a something someone had hacked together in their spare time.
I hope it's just the result of a poorly executed port from PC to Mac.
This was a xmas gift, which after a few minutes of frustration, was thrown in the trash.

My 5 year old loves this game and has been playing it since she was 4. She's a pro at the game and never gets sick of it.

Loved the movie "Ratatouille," but the PC game from THQ, while featuring decent graphics, a great orchestral score, and many clever and fun elements, suffers from awkward gameplay leading to unnecessary frustrations. The system for controlling Remy, for example, is clumsy and awkward, largely because the camera angle, which adjusts automatically, will never look through walls or solid objects that obstruct the player's view. If you back Remy into a corner or other tight space, you can't face the way he is facing, even with manual camera adjustment, until he moves out into the open. This is especially annoying when Remy has to navigate tight spaces with hazards lying immediately in the direction you can't look.

Another frustration is that the same rules do not always apply, even in the same environment (e.g., sometimes lobsters jump out of buckets, other times they don't). Granted, it is a story driven game, and to have all challenges present at once would be too difficult. But the seemingly arbitrary changes in the same environment detracts from the sense of really being in another world. Some world-governing rules make no sense, even in a cartoon world (e.g., Remy cannot jump while in the middle of a sugar spill. He does not even struggle and fail; the jump button is simply unresponsive at that time).

Finally, there are elements of gameplay that are strikingly absurd, such as dogs and cats not pursuing a rat after it disappears from their immediate view, but rather forgetting it is there. Or the camera cutting from Remy being spotted from a distance, to dangling by his tail from someone's boxy hand. The cats throwing projectiles from their towers instead of pouncing was a little odd, and the lobster version of that routine, in which the lobsters "punch" Remy from a great distance without physically touching him, is not only graphically ugly, but introduces an element of unfairness.

This game had so much potential. I really wanted to like it. Perhaps the versions for other game systems are better.

It's really fun but it crashes a lot and then you lose your place and have to start over. This is when playing on a Mac; don't know if it works better on Windows. It's sometimes really frustrating because the buttons just don't respond, and the documentation is terrible. Good thing it has fun situations and characters and decent (if repetitive) music from the movie. The script is fine, but not really in keeping with the movie.

I installed this on my new Intel iMac (aluminum and glass) and it won't display the cut scenes or intro artwork. However actual game play works fine. It was just a black screen with sound. Overall Game play is decent. When I installed this on my PC it worked much better. All video played well. I could see the missing graphics that didn't work on the Mac. Pixar was founded by Steve Jobs of Apple and I would have thought that it would have worked flawlessly. Mildly entertaining for adults or older children, good for children who are fans of the movie that are old enough to handle and memorize the keyboard movement keys.

My son's a bit young for this game (6) but we have fun playing together. You cannot play this game without knowing the "G" key for Context. As other reviewers said you have to use it to grab, climb etc.. They really need a key map as part of help. Crazy that you'd have to research it on the internet to simply play the first "mission." I'd pass on the game unless you're really into the story. There are much better games out there.