Total Game Boy


Sabrina The Animated Series: Zapped!

Categories: Review: Software
Publisher: Nintendo
Machine: Game Boy Color

 
Published in Total Game Boy Issue 15

Mmm... teenage witch. Hocus Pocus, and all that.

Sabrina: The Animated Series: Zapped!

Eurgh! It's a girl's game! You can tell by the large amount of pink used in the packaging and title screen, the female main character, and the ease with which you can complete it! This is in no way a sexist rant, but videogame companies always make games targeted towards girls extremely easy!

Hubble Bubble

Everyone knows about the live-action adventures of Sabrina, that most teenage of witches, watched through a haze on a Saturday morning, but the Archie Comics character is now in her very own cartoon along with black cat Salem. Surprisingly, the extremely easy nature of this new game version aside, it's not half bad!

Toil And That

As Sabrina has accidentally cast a spell turning her school chums into animals, she now has to run around banging them on the head, before zapping them back to normal. To return the manifold snakes, pandas, and crocodiles back into smiling children, there are four small worlds to explore. Salem helps on the way, as do the five spells you can pick up now and then. Of course, it's all about as original as eating an egg at Easter, but it looks and sounds pretty good, and is definitely an enjoyable way of passing an hour or two. But then again, do you really want to spend twenty quid on two hour's entertainment?

Verdict

Sabrina The Animated Series: Zapped!

Graphics 80%
Lovely and colourful.

Sound 80%
Nice tunes. Can get annoying.

Playability 60%
Controls are a bit poo-ish.

Lastability 20%
Short game with no extras.

Overall 60%
A fun cartoon-style time waster.