Inside the temple, an action based minigame tasks you with defeating Medusa herself by decapitation. The wannabe hero has only got himself caught in a giant stone snake that only the collection of certain magical items can help. The third chapter sees you joining forces with Perseus in order to defeat Medusa. There's even a brief musical number which makes it an automatic win in my eyes. The setting is nicely realised with a lot of people to interact with. Even so, I found this to be the most entertaining section. Anyone with any experience with adventure games will have no problems with it anyway. I won't give it away as discovering what happens is pretty fun. There's no real mini-game like the labyrinth, but there's still a need to think outside the box. You are tasked with delivering a message from Odysseus to Helen of Troy while in the middle of the war. The thinking that this game is aimed more towards a slightly older audience continues with the second section. While still incredibly easy, it's by no means the kind of cakewalk found that earlier title. For example, this first puzzle sees you trapping the Minotaur in the maze by twisting tiles so that each wall is of a certain strength.
As you'll find in each chapter, these puzzles are more in line with what can be seen in those Animated Storybooks, except here they're a bit more involved. There's some tradition point-n-clickery going on before you get to the first major puzzle which tends to be the game's main focus. And learn some stuff along the way.įirst up you have to help Daedalus build the labyrinth on Crete. Namely, help other heroes do what the legends say they did. And what better person to fill that spot than you? In order to get your name in stars, you first have to complete a series of challenges. While Hercules is off battling some giant or other beast, our resident satyr Phil has an opening for a hero-in-training. It still offers some nice movie-quality visuals with an educational slant but the one big difference is that this game is first and foremost an adventure game. Hades' Challenge shares some similarities with the Animated Storybook series of children's games that came before it but it does skew a little older. Well, he's not quite the game's protagonist but at least his name is front and centre. I'm not the only one to think so either as in 1998, Disney Interactive gave him his very own game. In this reviewer's opinion, he is one of the most memorable bad guys in the studio's entire back catalogue. He's a bumbling buffoon yet happens to be the all-powerful god of the underworld. His menacing appearance belies his positioning in the movie as the comic relief. Out of the entire pantheon of Disney Villains, Hades tends to get the short shrift.
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