There's a good variety to the look of each area, but you'll be doing a lot of typical platform-style item collecting and fetching in all of them. So at the outset you're only allowed to enter the country-western themed area, but eventually you'll explore a lot of different environments like a haunted mansion and a jungle-mine area. Your access to each of the sound stages is restricted depending on how many Edgars you've found. The Great Edgar Hunt is set up much like Super Mario 64 the Warner lot serves as a hub to six different sound stages that serve as different environments to explore. Aside from each of them being able to use a unique gadget, all of the Warners have the same skills and abilities. You'll begin the game as Yakko, but you'll soon track down Wakko and Dot and be able to play the game as any of the three Warners. It's up to the Warner brothers (and sister) to track down the Edgar statues. studio in his blimp, he accidentally crashes the airship into the Warner water tower, scattering the stolen statues across the lot. Tired of having his films overlooked by the Academy, Deville threatens to melt down all the statues unless Warner CEO Thaddeus Plotz agrees to sign Deville on for a multifilm contract. The game begins with the theft of all of this year's golden Edgar statues (a cartoon take on the real-life Oscar awards) by the nefarious CC Deville. Yakko, Wakko, and Dot go hunting around the Warner Bros. Despite that conundrum, The Great Edgar Hunt is a good, if not very original, platformer in its own right, offering up some funny writing and interesting environments to explore.

Those of us who grew up enjoying the antics of the Animaniacs are all in college or older, while the adolescent age group this game seems to cater to probably wouldn't recognize the characters at all.

Animaniacs: The Great Edgar Hunt is very kid-friendly, with only mild cartoon violence, so it makes you wonder who exactly the game is aimed at. But that hasn't stopped Warthog and Ignition Entertainment from bringing out a new platform game based on the smart-alecky Warner brothers (and sister). It's been about seven years since the Animaniacs animated series was canceled, and at least a few years since it disappeared even from syndication.

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