Schnappi - 3 Fun Games

Schnappi - 3 Fun Games
When the game itself says to be "fun" or "great", it's often a red flag...
Genre(s): Party Platform(s): Microsoft Windows PlayStation Release Date: March 1, 2005 Developer(s): Sproing Interactive Publisher(s): Phenomedia Country: Austria Series: Die Sendung mit der Maus

Schnappi - 3 Fun Games is a party game developed by Sproing Interactive and published by Phenomedia. It was released exclusively in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in 2005 for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation.

It is a game that features the titular German cartoon crocodile of the same name, that was featured in the song "Schnappi - Das kleine Krokodil" (ENG: "Schnappi - The Little Crocodile") by Joy in 2005 that was topped charts across several parts of the world.

It is believed to be the very last PS1 game ever released in Europe.

Overview

As seen on Die Sendung mit der Maus (the TV show where the song came from), Schnappi is a crocodile from the egyptian part of the Nile river. In both the TV show and the self-featured song, he describes his life and personality.

Why It Has No Fun Games

1. This game is based on a song which, just like Baby Shark and Johnny Johnny Yes Papa, is a massively successful between young children replayed over and over again non-stop, at the point of being annoying, repetitive and rage-inducing. This game was made... only to cash-in on a single song. This is a stupid idea in the first place, because a song is not enough to make anything but remixes out of it, and not a franchise whatsoever.
2. Despite being a physical console game, which companies charge money for, it literally acts like a typical Flash game you would find at any official website of a children TV channel. But whoever developed or published the game decided to make it a full physical retail release.
3. As the title states, there are only three mini-games, and all of them are boring, easy and have little-to-no originality.
   • Schnappi Schnapp!: You must eat wasps in the sky by moving from left to right ad adjusting your jump height to reach wasps that fly higher, a pretty simple control layout reminiscent of platform games. Of course, this can bore players within just a few minutes of gameplay, especially because there is only one screen in the entire minigame, and not to mention, even though there are multiple types of wasps in the game, they only vary in points and speed.
   • Schnappi Denk!: To get the elephant out of the room, it's an obvious rip-off of Simon Says, which is also a portable electronic game that does not require a video game console to play on it. Therefore, making a Simon Says video game has no point whatsoever, like most of the rest of electronic games. Only the layout is changed, from a circular set of buttons to a honrizontal one.
   • Schnappi Tanz!: Another minigame that rips off a well-known rhythm game, that is Dance Dance Revolution. There is also only one track available for this minigame, which is the song the game is based on itself. Not much to describe about the game, as it plays exactly like the game it plagiarizes.
4. Only one soundtrack (actually two: full and instrumental versions of the same), which is the song itself that the game is solely based on. If you didn't like the song, then get ready to get very frustrated.
5. The graphics are really crude, to the point of looking like a Game Boy Advance game, because the colors are watered down from the PC port. There are also inconsistent white outlines on Schnappi's sprites, and ugly anti-aliasing on practically all of the game's sprites, especially those for the text font.
6. When booting the PC version of the game, an "empty command prompt"-esque screen will appear. This is actually the loading screen, but it may trick those playing on the PC, thinking it's a DOS-based game.
7. Releasing its console version only for the PlayStation 1 was a very bad idea, since it was already partially obsolete and almost on its way to get discontinued. There were so much better options like the already relevant Game Boy Advance, the "brand new" Nintendo DS, or even the PlayStation 2. In fact, it is apparently the very last PlayStation 1 game made for the system.

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