Addams Family Values (SNES) Playthrough
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- A playthrough of Ocean's 1995 license-based action-adventure game for the Super Nintendo, Addams Family Values.
Like the NES, the Super Nintendo had three Addams Family games. The first one ( • The Addams Family (SNE... ), based on the 1991 film, is what I consider to be the best console game Ocean ever made. The second ( • The Addams Family: Pug... ), based on the animated TV series, was as terrible to play as it was beautiful to look at. Addams Family Values, the third, falls somewhere between those two extremes, leaning heavily toward the latter.
On the surface, Addams Family Values bears an even greater resemblance to the traditional Zelda games than Sunsoft's Fester's Quest did ( • Fester's Quest (NES) P... ). Baby Pubert has been kidnapped by Debbie Jelinsky, a money grubbing hussy that seeks to extort wealth and power from the Addams, and when creating the world for this to all take place in, someone clearly took notes when playing A Link to the Past ( • The Legend of Zelda: A... ).
Beginning near a graveyard, Fester's second quest will take him across a large overworld broken up into several distinctly themed areas, including a shadowy forest, a sunlit forest, a swamp, a desolate mountain region, an icy desolate mountain region, and an area covered in ruined ancient structures and statues. These areas are all linked by networks of caves, teleportation portals, and crumbling bridges, and most ultimately lead to underground dungeons filled with traps and puzzles.
But as eerily similar as this all sounds, Addams Family Values doesn’t live up to the billing of a Zelda clone. If A Link to the Past had been a painting, Addams Family Values would be the mimeographed reproduction that you'd have seen on a worksheet in elementary school. It vaguely captures the form of the work, but the minutiae - the technique, the care, and the nuance - that elevated the original masterwork is completely lost in translation. It misses the forest for the trees.
The world lacks any sense of cohesion. There's little rhyme or reason to how it's all structured - the massive labrynthine overworld is largely empty and has no sense of flow, you're rarely given any clues as to where you need to go or what your next objective might be, and there's no sense of progression beyond the occasional upgrades made to your life gauge. The maps are simple to the point of being useless, you spend hours upon hours lost wandering in circles, and the countless times you're forced to backtrack halfway across the world to just to give someone an item makes for a game that is as boring as is it infuriatingly obtuse. Making matters worse is the game's visual design: the graphics are gorgeous, especially for an SNES game, and the game is drenched in atmosphere, but it wields its perspective against you in ways that really hurt the gameplay. Enemies that you can't see constantly ambush you from behind walls, and important pathways are often completely obscured by tree canopies.
Much of the game's challenge is wrought from dirty tricks that force you to memorize large swathes of the vast, barren world and from the useless password system. To save, you have to talk to Cousin It who is hidden deep in the eastern swamps, and more often than not you'll get killed in a vain attempt to find him, undoing all of the hard won progress that has been made since your last visit.
Addams Family Values' incredible graphics and music nail the gothic horror vibe that the designers were so clearly aiming for, but the gameplay is the same half-baked, player-hostile garbage that we had all come to expect from Ocean.
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My obligatory comment about how great and genuinely underrated the soundtrack is.
I can't help but think Ocean might've lasted longer had they played to their strengths. They sucked at designing games, but if they'd turned themselves in a studio that other developers could outsource art and music production to, who knows what kind of success they might've had.
Addams Family Values gets an A for its presentation and an F for its gameplay. Par for the course when it comes to Ocean's work.
Idk. As a kid I really enjoyed it even though I really sucked at it... now I think about it yeah they really needed to work on the gameplay but its still a classic and a much beloved game of mine.. just wish they had done a better save system..
we can fix that 🎉@@brokehandstudiosgaming7161
Whoever came up with the idea of having your attack power get weaker as your life force depletes needs to suffer by playing this game every day.
Yeah, I think they were going for the same idea as the master sword, but you're as good as dead when your weapon is powered down.
Holy heck, and here I thought I'd hallucinated this game... I have like, the vaguest memories of playing it when I was a kid, but until now I thought it was just a weird dream I'd had about Fester's Quest!
I got lost figuring out what to do at that greenhouse.
Shoulda just ported Fester's Quest to the SNES instead.
Nice game 👍😐
Playing the Adams family games 2 videos in a row for the Halloween 🎃 Season I see you
Its a flawed game no doubt but I had so much fun with it, what got me the most was how the game is cryptic at times for reason, I ended up running in circles more times than I can count.
This game is like Legends of Zelda of an RPG game
That plant boss combat was thrilling
I remember asking my dad to rent this for me at the video store. What was I thinking 😞
The game should’ve been called Super Fester's Quest,
because it looks and sounds nothing like Addams Family Values.
Yeah, but they had a movie to promote.
@@dustinrolstad752
Simple: Just slap Christopher Lloyd on the Super Fester's Quest box-art cover and call it a day.
Why does the game drop you right into the action with so little context? I’m a fan of the movie it’s based on, but I still would’ve preferred a real introduction. This just comes off as lazy and rushed.
Best Ocean game on the SNES. I have not played all of Ocean's SNES games but I thought that Jurassic Park 2 The Chaos Continues was a decent little game similar to LJN's Alien 3.
exelente juegos de halloween espectacular amigo 🇨🇴🤜😉
I distinctly remember renting this one back in the day, having it bore me to death after a few minutes and then not touching it for the remainder of the weekend. Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt is a better Addams Family game even though it's hard as all hell.
I would have preferred if Sunsoft had gotten to do a 16-Bit follow up to Fester’s Quest over this.
I just shut my eyes and forget that this is an Addams Family based game. A Nighmare on Elm Street is the first thing that comes to mind while listening.
I love how they didn't even try to hide that they were ripping off the theme from Phantasm. It's pretty much a straight cover @2:29:23 🤣
As a child I had snes but we were cheap so I got this game instead of the popular titles. It was so hard I never beat it but I must have played it a million times and it has stuck with me ever since. Since then I been playing thru this game every couple months. I notice they ripped off alot of Zelda lttp sprites and stuff but I will always have a thing for this game. The game is so bad that it's good lol
I *_really_* wish I could say that this is better than _"Fester's Quest."_ The graphics are very good and they do a much better job at trying to capture the Addams Family's dreary aesthetic. The soundtrack is equally impressive (The boss theme didn't have to go this hard lol (3:33). They even managed to fit in the bizarre humor from the show/movies - something that FQ didn't even *_try_* to attempt. But this style is accompanied by a lack of substance... and busy level designs. Ocean really seemed to love that philosophy.
As for the film this is loosely based on, it's great. But I like the first one just a little more.
This is a very hard game and I remember when I completed it after defeating the last boss, starting at 3:17:47 I wondered why my energy didn't fill back up and I walked around the room thinking there was something I had to grab before walking through the door and when seeing there was nothing to grab, I then walked through the door and thought I had to fight Debbie Jelinsky next with only one piece of energy which I had.
2:29:23 You play a good game, boy...
Amazing game, far better than Fester's Quest.
2:29:24 Phantasm movie theme. Weird how they could get away with this back then. Just came from an IG post from Phantasm about this. Had to find out for myself…lol
well it's an indie film so I'd bet it's soundtrack has rather lax copyright. Many studio songs sampled the Phantasm theme. Also it's just 8 notes so they'd probably get away with it
Ocean seems to be far worse than LJN. The difference? The latter had cash to blow on top-notch developers.
Yeah some of LJN games are not that bad. Most of the time, they have competent developers such as Rareware or Software Creations.
Ocean games are just poisoned gifts, just like Infogrames' games. Beautiful presentation, atrocious everything else.
@@supmattboy I actually liked some of Infogrames' titles - Spirou, the Smurfs and the Tintin games, in particular, are some of their best efforts.
@@Dorian_Scott Spirou and Tintin are beautiful and faithful to the source material, but with terrible game design ideas and "fake" difficulty: unpredictable obstacles, bad hitboxes, tight and useless timer in the Tintin games since you got nothing by beating the level quickly... In my opinion The Smufs is better concerning that though. Just too hard for young children.
Also I think the GameBoy Infogrames ports by Bit Managers are more enjoyable, with an awesome soundtrack. You should try it to compare with the SNES versions.
For my opinion is it released only in Europe
Yo tuve este juego y jamás lo entendí, apenas tenía 3 o 4 años, era muy complicado ya que no sabía en qué dirección ir, no creí verlo hasta ahora, avance hasta cierto lugar
Interesting.
What happens if you give the rose to the weird plant-like monster who asked for it in the first place?
S thanks loser and leaves, but you dont get the buff that morticia gives you when you give it to her.
Yeah one less skull in the end
Somewhere I hear Gavin Free screaming about Pubert.
Joan Cusack as Debbie
What is this game?
A miserable pile of secrets.
@@NintendoComplete But enough talk! Have at you!
Si hubieras utilizado contra las gárgolas la galleta azul y el amuleto lo matas en un dos por tres
This almost looks like the same artists who did the goof troop game. I think maybe that was ocean too?
No, that was Capcom.
Cheryl Chase as the voice of pubert Addams
minuto 12:13 falla el juego buscare otro emulador
2:29:23 Phantasm, anyone? Lol
Just bought a copy for SNES 🎮