REVIEW: Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 3 1999 Game Boy Color
By: Kemco
Type: Platform
Players: 1
Difficulty: Hard
NINTENDO LAND GREAT GRAPHICS AWARD

LONG TERM INTEREST:

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NINTENDO LAND'S SCORE:

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93%

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83%

    Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 3 is a different and challenging game. It will take a long time to beat. It has 4 worlds with 15 stages each. That is a total of 60 stages! In each stage of the four worlds Crazy Castle 3, you play as Bugs Bunny and have to collect eight keys in order to go through the locked so you can beat the level. You can collect keys by going through doors. Bugs can pick up items like bombs and carrots. A big problem is that if Bugs gets hit by an enemy, poof! He is dead. This can be annoying. It is not like Mario where you shrink or like in Zelda where you loose a heart. Instead, Bugs can throw anvils or leave bombs to kill an enemy. Another disadvantage is that Bugs Bunny cannot jump. He has to avoid his enemies by killing them or running away from them. The only way he can jump is if he lands on a spring or "Jump Floor." This is what makes Crazy Castle 3 challenging. When I was playing stage 3, I knew what I had to do yet I couldn't do it because I kept having to run away from Daffy Duck.

    One good thing about Crazy Castle 3 is that when you press pause, you can look around the whole level, which isn't that large. Like in Mario games, you go through pipes to go to different parts of the level. Unlike most games, you do not necessarily move to the right as you progress through a stage, but you can move up, down, right, or left to beat the level. Also, there is a password for every stage that you beat.
Cool!

Graphics
Kemco did a nice job on looney tunes characters. Bugs Bunny and the other characters look sharp and colorful. However, the backgrounds are the same for all the stages in each world. It looks boring after a while. Crazy Castle 3 is pretty colorful though.
 
Sound
The sounds in Crazy Castle 3 are louder than usual for Game Boy Color. It is hard to hear the sounds in Link Awakening Dx without headphones. The midis are all right. Although, there are not too many sounds in Crazy Castle 3.
 
Playability
The game play is good, except for the fact that you cannot jump on your own. The A and B buttons are used to activate items or switches. Unusually, Select is not used in the game at all. The control pad moves Bugs Bunny around and is also used to go through doors and up and down stairs. If you press the down button, you automatically move to the next stairs.
 
Lastability
Crazy Castle 3 will last a long time since there are a lot of levels that are challenging. - Brian Cimmino 83%

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