Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday (1995 Video Game)
4/10
This game is really 'meh', not sure why so many videos recommended it.
3 October 2023
I was looking at videos suggesting scary games to play on older systems since it is the season. I know this was not going to be scary, but a lot of videos recommended this thing saying it was a good platform game. Well, I played it and won it and it was rather blah. Strange inclusions as far as bosses for a 'haunted' holiday and the music is kind of bad for most levels...

The story, apparently, Porky wants to go on a holiday. He is flipping through brochures and then proceeds to fall asleep. He ends up having a nightmare and you must help him have this nightmarish holiday or I guess it is bad?

The game play has you mainly jumping on enemies like Mario. However, during the first stage you also get a basket of fruit; however, I literally only found the one. It is okay though as the fruit flies in such a way you miss most of the time anyway. You get to go through various levels like a haunted forest, a desert that features the moose head with a gun that I actually remember being in a Porky and Sylvester cartoon and Yosemite Sam, who I do not remember ever being near Porky in a cartoon nor being scary. Then you have an Atlantis stage, a dreadful mine stage where you are kind of winging it as far as where to go and fight tweety in his monster mode, then the Alps which are just weird and you fight that snowman that always wanted to cuddle and finally a castle where you face Daffy Duck? What? I mean where is that vampire? That witch? That giant red hairy monster? I know Porky did not ever fight them or appear with them, but this is supposed to be a horror themed game...

So no, not a very good game and I would not recommend it. The music in a couple of stages is alright, but will grate on your nerves most of the time, the graphics are pretty good, but there are very few enemy types and the whole things seems pointless. Disney definitely did a better job making video games for their characters back in the day. The poor Loony Toon gang just appeared mainly in mediocre to bad video games.
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