Little Britain: The Video Game

This game, co-developed by Gamerholix and Gamesauce and published by Blast! Entertainment, is based on the British sketch comedy series, Little Britain, which was originally created by David Walliams and Matt Lucas. For starters, an idea of a game based on Little Britain is not a good one and it doesn't like a interesting idea at all, as there aren't that many clever game concepts that you could over the show, as it never relied on overarching stories, since the show itself was just a sketch comedy series that mostly relied exaggerated lives of random characters who are all one-dimensional and have different stereotypes from each other, what more could you get out of a video game about that? The boxart is very simple and lazily made, as it shows nothing but a plain white background with Vicky Pollard, Lou and Andy, even the logo slapped on it. In addition the back of the box falsely says that there are eight mini-games. In fact it has only seven mini-games and most of them are extremely easy to beat, even on the hardest difficulty. Though the PSP port of the game does exclusively have that one additional eighth mini-game and it's just as bad as the rest, since it mocks people with mental disabilities. The mini-games are also poor, with some ripping off arcade games. One mini-game (most specifically the mini-game at Pox involving Maggie and Judy) involves you having to play a rip-off of Columns until you fill out a bar (or as the game says: Maggie's gullet), before controlling her to vomit on people to earn points. Another one (the mini-game at Llandewi Breffi involving Dafydd Thomas) has you collecting gay magazines while running over the villagers on the streets, who could be homosexuals (as evident by the voice lines of Thomas every time he runs over a villager). This led to accusations that the game was homophobic, resulting into the game being banned in Germany. It was refused classification due to homophobia related to incentives and rewards, therefore banning the sale and promotion in the country, although the game was initially released with an unauthorized USK KJ rating, which was later pulled when the game went on the index roughly a few weeks after it was released, therefore banning the game entirely. The gameplay for lots of the levels are very repetitive, not even super-patient players can master it without feeling unhappy. Most the gameplay involve you pressing buttons or/and combos of buttons to do wearisome tasks. And speaking of which, the controls for some of the levels are absolutely frustrating and are hard to get used to. For instance, the Vicky Pollard level involves you spamming the X button to skate along and the Square button to jump over obstacles, what makes it worse is that the jump button incredibly delayed, as it takes about one second before Vicky Pollard can actually jump when you press the button. Even though the original cast from Little Britain reprise their roles for their characters, the voice acting and notable one-liners are quite annoying to listen to, such as the infamous "I. Love. Cake. GO!" in the Sessex/Marjorie Dawes mini-game, which is a Pac-Man ripoff. Also, most of the soundtrack in game sound rather boring and repetitive. Even for PS2 and PSP standards, the graphics and animations along with the character designs look absolutely terrible and fugly and almost looks like a game that was made for Nintendo 64 a decade earlier. There's also a mobile version, but it's, if anything, even worse, with horrible and ear-bleeding MIDI music, low-quality digitised sound effects (due to hardware limitations), and only four mini-games (once again, due to hardware limitations). The skating, cycling and diving mini-games are nothing but quick-time events. This is simply the worst game ever made for Sony. I despise it. I want it to be destroyed with fire.