SPIRITS AND SPELLS

by Nintendo

Product Details

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• ASIN: B0000A1OFP
• Item Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 15, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,138 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Take on the role of Alicia, a little girl disguised as a witch, or Greg, a young boy disguised as a devil. Alternate between the two characters as you discover their unique abilities and play through exciting game levels and terrifying environments, with beautifully detailed graphics, that include: a haunted house, a dark scary cemetery, eerie forests and an abandoned laboratory.

Product Description

Spirits and Spells takes place in a gloomy and frightening setting where Werewolves prowl Devils dance in the flames Witches cast spells and Skeletons rattle their bones. A pinch of horror a dash of surprise a touch of fantasy. 24 huge levels.Take on the role of Alicia a little girl disguised as a witch or Greg a young boy disguised as a devil. Alternate between the two characters as you discover their unique abilities and play through exciting game levels and terrifying environments with beautifully detailed graphics that include: a haunted house a dark scary cemetery eerie forests and an abandoned laboratory.Format: GAMECUBE Genre: MISCELLANEOUS/OTHER Rating: E - Everyone UPC: 625904340955 Manufacturer No: 34905

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Speachless ... so bad, March 7, 2005

By 

Nowork - See all my reviews

= Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: SPIRITS AND SPELLS (Video Game)

If you planning on buying this game, it's unsuitable for any audience, especially kids, details shortly. If you own this game, like me, you've likely been ripped off your hard earned money, even it was just 10 bucks in my case. Why:

- Behind the cover of an, admittedly very nice, 3D rendered environment there really is only a 2D side scrolling game with platform jumping and some form of diamond collection, the occasional 'scary skeleton' that needs to be cleaned out of the way. Characters are following a tight path with no freedom other than to move forward

- absolutely no camera control, you will sometimes need to guess where to jump next and unless you are into this kind of 'death jumping' you will find this plain frustrating quickly.

- platform jumping suffers from moving camera angles, while you are jumping, or between platforms, sometimes requiring 'mid-air' corrections.

- the lives of your character are eaten up quicker than you can count to three, simply by slipping of a platform due to a bad control scheme. And in many cases you will have to restart the level. I cannot see this beeing of any enjoyment to a child or adult.

- along with some of the above, there are to few save points in the game, and the checkpoints don't make up for it because once you are done with your lives the game (or level) is over

- the game suffers under severe frame rate issues, while clearly not using the capabilities of the cube.

Bottom line to me: a kids game that was likely developed quickly with a tight budget, like so many thinking it would be good enough for children anyway. Not worth the money, let alone the time wasted trying to play it. Unless someone posts a cheat for unlimited lives I will not finish this game. And even then only because I feel obligated ...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Total crap, February 20, 2005

By 

GameFreak (Kansas) - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: SPIRITS AND SPELLS (Video Game)

I bought this thinking it would be a cute weekend diversion, and boy was I disappointed. The whole premise behind the game is bad. When I tried to change between characters it was maddening at times. Also, they got stuck in the walls, inevitably meaning reboot. I gave up about 3/4 of the way through and took it back!

I think even a small child's intelligence would be insulted by this one.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not all that bad, February 23, 2006

By 

Luis A. Hernandez (Miami, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: SPIRITS AND SPELLS (Video Game)

After reading all the bad reviews this game had gotten, and even gamepro magazine rated it a 2 out of 10, I decided I had to defend the game. It's true that it's just a simple "side scroller" (or up scroller or down scroller, depending on the level), but the game is very challenging. However, there is a feature that let's you continue on whatever level you left off on, and you get to replay the levels over and over. In some levels there are two or three free men, so you could grab both, and die on purpose, and in this way have as many lives as you need.

I think the best part was that there were two characters, the devil and the witch, each with his and her special abilities. You have to switch between them to accomplish certain tasks. There is one level of the game where you go through alternating corridors of ice and lava. Ice kills the devil, and lava kills the witch, so you have to switch characters in mid jump in order to survive

I personally finished the game after several tries. It will be very frustrating at times where you want to throw the controller and scream at the TV, but then you come back and try again. The game can actually be kind of relaxing once you get good at it, like figure skating or cooking.