The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King

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Developer(s) Tose
Publisher(s)
Series The Nightmare Before Christmas
Platform(s) Game Boy Advance
Release date(s)
  • JP: September 8, 2005
  • NA: October 10, 2005
  • EU: November 10, 2005
Genre(s) 2D Platformer, Metroidvania[1]
Mode(s) Single-player

The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King (ナイトメアー・ビフォア・クリスマス パンプキン・キング Naitomeā Bifoa Kurisumasu: Panpukin Kingu, lit. "Nightmare Before Christmas: Pumpkin King"), also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King (ティム・バートンナイトメアー・ビフォア・クリスマス パンプキン・キング Timu Bāton Naitomeā Bifoa Kurisumasu: Panpukin Kingu, lit. "Tim Burton Nightmare Before Christmas: Pumpkin King"), is a game for the Game Boy Advance released in 2005.

The events of the game take place before those of the movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas. The story tells of Jack's first encounter with his nemesis, Oogie Boogie, and how he claimed the title of "The Pumpkin King".

This game was released at the same time in North America as The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge.

Plot

The game starts with Jack Skellington preparing for Halloween, approximately one year before the events of The Nightmare Before Christmas. Unfortunately, Oogie heard from his henchmen, Lock, Shock, and Barrel that Jack was scarier than him and sent the henchmen to kidnap Jack. They however bring Sally, a rag doll-like creature who was Dr. Finkelstein's new assistant with a crush on Jack, back instead. Jack found the Town deserted on Halloween of all days and heard from the mayor that everyone was hiding from a bug infestation. Lock, Shock and Barrel wreaked havok around the town while Jack was determined to get to the bottom of it. Along the way Jack helped the townspeople and in return collected weapons, upgrades and information. Jack heard from them about Oogie Boogie and that he lived under the treehouse on the edge of town. When he faced Oogie Jack learned that he was behind the whole mess and that he wanted to turn Halloween into Crawloween. Jack and Oogie had a battle to decide who ruled the town. Oogie was certain he would win saying that the town would be reborn as Bug Town. Lock, Shock and Barrel helped him saying that when Oogie took over the town would be theirs to play with. When Jack defeated him he ordered Oogie to fear him and not to leave the lair. Jack met Sally for the first time when he rescued her and Halloween went ahead as planned. Oogie Boogie vowed to get his revenge after biding his time. In the movie however it seems like Jack has forgiven the three minions.

Reception

Reception
Aggregate scores
AggregatorScore
GameRankings69.43%[2]
Metacritic71/100[3]
Review scores
PublicationScore
AllGame[4]
GameSpy[5]
IGN6.5/10[6]
Nintendo Power6.5/10[7]
Nintendo World Report8/10[8]

The game so far has a score of 69.43% from GameRankings[2] and 71 out of 100 from Metacritic.[3] IGN gave it a score of 6.5 out of 10, saying, "Nightmare Before Christmas might not be all that amazing visually, and audio-wise it's the absolute pits. But it does give kids a solid Nightmare Before Christmas-based adventure, even if it lacks that special 'zing' that the unique license could have afforded."[6]

References

  1. ↑ Leclair, Kyle (April 17, 2013). "Ten Other Disney Video Games That Deserve Modern Upgrades". The Robot's Voice. Retrieved July 12, 2016. Pumpkin King was more of a 2D Metroidvania title.
  2. 1 2 "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King for Game Boy Advance". GameRankings. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
  3. 1 2 "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King for Game Boy Advance Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
  4. ↑ Deci, T.J. "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King - Overview". Allgame. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
  5. ↑ Klepek, Patrick (2005-10-25). "GameSpy: The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King". GameSpy. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
  6. 1 2 Harris, Craig (2005-10-31). "The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King". IGN. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
  7. ↑ "The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King". Nintendo Power. 199: 116. December 2005.
  8. ↑ Metts, Jonathan (2005-10-30). "The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King Review". Nintendo World Report. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
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