DISNEY'S PIGLET'S BIG GAME

A Very Large Soup Party needs a Very Large Soup, and who better than Piglet to help Rabbit collect all the necessary ingredients. Travel through the Hundred Acre Wood with Piglet, visiting all your favourite friends and finding what Rabbit needs to make the Biggest, Largest, Best-est Soup EVER!

• Solve brain-teasing puzzles plus tricky problems through 22 activity scenes.
• 4 mini-games add to the fun and laughs.
• Hundreds of hot spots to discover along the road in this hilarious adventure game.
• Difficulty levels increase as activities are replayed.

~ from the back of the box

Has there ever been a more ironic title than Disney's Piglet's Big Game? I say that because compared to what the name promises, it is tiny. The educational adventure lasts about half an hour - an hour maybe for the under-fives - and there isn't actually much content to dig your teeth into.

Disney Interactive have made a few educational titles based on Winnie the Pooh. Perhaps due to being aimed at those on the youngest side of the age range, they tended to be well produced and visually appealing. Even the Activity Centre - a series more about the mini-games than presentation - was more like an Animated Storybook with cute cut scenes and environments alive with interactivity. Despite very much looking the part, Piglet's Big Game doesn't quite play it.

The ingredients list makes it sound like one disgusting soup (left).

"Haycorns" are found laying about the forest. You can collect way more than the needed 10 (right).

Rabbit is making a Very Large Soup turning the day into a very special one indeed. All the toys of the Hundred Acre Wood were tasked with getting their own ingredient to him, but it seems they've forgotten. So, it's up to Piglet to do it. It plays more like a traditional point-and-click adventure as opposed to a storybook, but you can count the number of puzzles inside of it on one hand. There is one inventory puzzle, which I won't spoil as it is the only one. Everything else is a mini-game that needs to be completed to get an ingredient. Eeyore doesn't even have that, instead hosting an entirely optional paint activity that has become obligatory for an educational title. At least he shows up, unlike the conspicuously absent Kanga and Roo.

The mini-games are insultingly simple, propped up by the winning dialogue voiced by the original actors. When alphabetising Owl's spice rack to procure some pepper, he'll whistle out some factoids for each one. And Piglet tends to voice his inner monologue out loud whenever he can. 

There is literally no way to fail this river-crossing mini-game so I don't know why Piglet is so satisfied when he succeeds (left).

There are no difficulty options, so puzzles like this broken honey pot are stupidly easy (right).

Although it's a tie-in to Piglet's Big Movie, it has absolutely nothing to do with it beyond an almost-shared title. The story is completely different as is should be, as a movie about making soup sounds excruciating! In game form, it just about works to link together some nice scenes and barely-interactive mini-games. They way some screens are laid out, I suspect a lot has been cut out. Croaking frogs, singing birds, digging moles and other otherwise empty screens take up a good chunk of the game making me think each one once hosted an activity or two. Even collecting the jug of milk from Kanga and Roo is strangely off because those two characters aren't actually in it. All we see of them is their abandoned picnic on the other side of a stream. What happened to them? Why aren't they there at the end of the game when the gang get together to eat that soup? Why doesn't anyone acknowledge their absence? Are they DEAD?!?!?!?

They can't be. This is a kids game, and they're fictional talking toys. With its pleasing art style, simple gameplay and a storyline just as much stakes as the soup (i.e. none), it should occupy the toddler in the house. For Disneyphiles, the visuals alone would make it worth a go (even they occasionally go off-model) but it's so slight and inconsequential that it barely exists.

To download the PC game, follow the link below. This custom installer exclusive to The Collection Chamber uses dgVoodoo to run on modern systems with with IMGDrive Portable, for CD ISO mounting. eManual included. Read the ChamberNotes.txt for more detailed information. Tested on Windows 10.

File Size: 54.7 Mb.  Install Size: 100 Mb.  Need help? Consult the Collection Chamber FAQ

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Disney's Piglet's Big Game is © Disney Interactive
Review, Cover Design and Installer created by me

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