A playthrough of Electro Brain's 1990 license-based action game for the NES, Puss 'n Boots: Pero's Great Adventure.
Based on Toei Animation’s 1976 anime film Puss ‘n Boots: Around the World in 80 Days, which was in turn based on the novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, Puss ‘n Boots: Pero’s Great Adventure sets Pero on a platforming adventure across the world and time.
In this North American-exclusive sequel to the 1986 Famicom game Nagagutu wo haita Neko Sekaiishuu 80 Nichi Daibouken (長靴をはいた猫 世界一周80日大冒険, lit. The Cat in Boots: The 80 Day Adventure Around the World), Count Gruemon, a humanoid pig, orders the puss to kill a mouse that he finds in his castle. Pero, being friendly with said mouse, refuses and sets the critter free. The Count becomes so consumed with rage that, with help of the wolf-scientist Dr. Gari-gari, exiles Pero to the past, and because Pero broke the law of the Cat Kingdom, assassins are after him. Pero now has to search the world for Gruemon and Gari-gari, defeat them, and use their time machine to find his way back home.
Pero’s Great Adventure takes place across seven stages in which Pero must fend off cats in period costumes, mechanized sea life, hopping pirate ships, and more. Stages periodically offer changes to the core gameplay to keep play fresh over the course of the adventure - he takes a ride in a submarine, crosses a desert in a car, flies over the mountains in a biplane - and all of this leads up to the final battle set in a maze in New York City.
The game targets the same young crowd as the movie. The graphics, though a bit stiff and badly dated for a 1990 release, are colorful and full of cute little touches, and the difficulty level is kept extremely low, the tricky last boss fight aside. Anyone with fully developed motor skills will probably be able to blow through the game in an afternoon without much trouble.
One interesting thing to note: the music was composed by Mitsuyasu Tomohisa of J-Walk, a group that became a one-hit wonder group on the Japanese charts with their single "Nanimo ienakute...natsu" (lit. I Can’t Say Anything… Summer) in 1991.
Puss ‘n Boots: Pero’s Great Adventure is a breezy, short, and thoughly forgettable kids' game. It's not a bad choice if you're looking to stress-free way to burn a half-hour, but you could do much better.
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