Who here remember The Fairly OddParents: Breaking Da Rules!

I was in a weird mood this week and wanted to re-play a PS2 game. I haven’t felt in the mood to replay Breaking Da Rules since I made a video about it 9ish years ago (according to YouTube).

For those of you who either weren’t born yet when this came out, or were too old to play these kinds of license games. This is your generic Platformer with [INSERT FRANCHISE HERE] slapped on it. Akin to a Spongebob Squarepants, or DuckTales.

This time it was The Fairly OddParents, based on their first Season of episodes. Where the levels are based off of various settings shown in the episodes or at times, ripping of the plot completely. While at times the story is a bit weak, I feel most of my complaints are nick picking compared to the quality which other license games had at the time.

Especially since the graphics are, at time, some of the better ages graphics I can remember from the time. It’s nothing remarkable, but aesthetically the game feels like it was ripped right from the episode. Or at least it is for small characters, larger models are PS1 Hargrid levels of bad and funny.

The gameplay has also held up well. It’s not anything special, nor anything I haven’t seen before. Outside of Vertical Camera controls there’s a good variety and no two levels feel the same.

Now it’s defiantly not worth going out to get a PS2 or a GameCube out to play this game. It’s good but not that Good. However it’s a fun game to emulate, especially the PS2 port in PCSX2. Wide screen is fantastic, increase in the resolution makes the games aesthetics looks even better… and the jank even more noticeable.

For a game over 20 years old, it’s held up well all things considered.