Excerpt from the Interview:
5: Can you describe to me a little about how the game plays, controls, the story?
"The game is a platformer with action and puzzle solving elements. You'll run through levels collecting clues and fighting monsters and henchmen along the way. Eventually, about half way through each mystery, you will enter a chase sequence where that mystery's villain chases you through a level and you have to run away. At the end of each mystery there is a boss fight where you fight the villain from that episode and try to guess who is behind the crime before you unmask them.
There is a lot of content to unlock along the way, such as new character costumes (each with their own abilities) and trophies for accomplishing certain tasks."
Though they'd never developed a more sophisticated story-based game game before, Australian independent developer Torus Games took on the challenge of working with Warner Bros. on Scooby-Doo! First Frights -- and in this postmortem, outlines how the small team delivered a Wii game that lives up to the ideas and ideals it started with.
This is a game definitely aimed at the lower end of the age bracket. If it's the case that Scooby Doo himself is the drawing point of the title then by all means give it a go; it's a playable game that does nothing to strongly offend. But there are better, smarter and more fun titles out there that look down on First Frights and laugh. Oh, how they laugh.
Scooby-Doo! First Frights is a surprisingly well made little game. It's always nice to see a licenced kids title with actual effort put into in. While the game doesn't try anything fancy and borrows heavily from the LEGO formula, it's still very fun for what it is. Younger fans will have a blast, especially in co-op.
