Shrek: Dragon's Tale

Shrek: Dragon's Tale
That one time a Shrek game stole music from Nintendo.
Genre(s): Edutainment Platform(s): V.Smile Release Date: 2006 Developer(s): Unknown (Possibly Vtech) Publisher(s): Vtech

Shrek: Dragon's Tale is an edutainment adventure game that was released by Vtech on the V.Smile in 2006.

Why This Game Tells a Bad Tale

1. For starters, this game is infamous for stealing music from Nintendo's games, which makes it an asset thief. There are also a few incidents that the game steals stuff from other games as well.
   • Two songs in the game are stolen from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The Haunted Woods theme is the Lost Woods theme, and the potion-mixing minigame uses the house theme from the said game as well. How did Nintendo not sue Vtech for allowing this game on the market?!
   • When you start a level, the music for the storybook is stolen from Super Mario All Stars' underwater theme.
   • When you collect an item inside of a bubble, the sound effect is stolen from Banjo-Kazooie.
   • When you cure the Dragon. It plays the carnival theme from Dark Seed 2.
   • The Gingerbread trivia is stolen from Ocarina Of Time's Kokiri Forest.
2. As expected from the V.Smile hardware, the graphics look like they came from an SNES game at best.
3. Extremely choppy animations, as many of the character animations look like they are missing frames.
4. A majority of the music is very bad, and a few of them sound completely awful. Even the stolen tracks sound awful, thanks to the bad hardware which results in the music being of lower quality.
5. The game is very short as it can be beaten in just an hour or less.
6. There's even a typo on the game cover shown in the image as well. It says, "LEARNING STSTEM", when it's supposed to say, "LEARNING SYSTEM", instead.

The Only Redeeming Quality

1. The voice actors from the films reprise their roles in the game.

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