Everyone loves this game. I used to love this game myself. Then I had the infamous case of the lost recording a year or so before this went up, and that consequently made me very angry at a game which is 20+ years old. It’s petty, I know.

Let’s Play Who Framed Roger Rabbit:

My personal anger aside, this is a great game. It’s completely open ended; you can travel anywhere you want around LA, and eventually the park area and Toon Town, as well, once you find Benny. How fun was driving Benny as a kid? Sure you could drive a car in games like Rad Racer and… umm, Al Unzer Jr.? But it was super fun in this game.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. You of course have no idea what this game is about, same person I was talking to in the Legend of Zelda Link to the Past post. It follows the plot of the film of the same name, which doesn’t really follow the plot of the book of not the same name. You play as Detective Valentine, a private eye in Los Angeles who takes on a case from a cartoon named Roger Rabbit.

That’s way more information than the game gives you, assuming you didn’t read the manual which generally fills you in a dozen times better than the game itself.

With Roger at your side being completely useless, you have to search all over LA, Toon Town, and the caves of northern LA for some reason to find the four pieces of the will so that you can fight Judge Doom, the main baddie of the game, played to perfect and terrifying execution by Christopher Lloyd in the film.

I used to moan about the difficulty of the game, and by used to I mean when I played it here on the channel, but really the vast majority of the game isn’t that difficult, it’s just a bit repetitive as you look for the will. The only really difficult and unfair part of the game is battling with Judge Doom is unphased by the majority of your items and generally has the upper hand in hand to hand combat.

Overall, this is a solid movie based game produced by LJN (shocker!) which was actually developed by Rare, which is probably why it was good as it was and why it was one of the better movie to game ports on a console which was littered with the corpses of awful attempts.