Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue!

Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue! is a platform game based on Pixar's movie Toy Story 2. It was released for the Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Dreamcast, PC and Game Boy Color in 1999 and 2000.

Why It Goes Beyond Limits

 * 1) Buzz Lightyear makes several quotes the real toy says and his laser blaster somehow actually works.
 * 2) There are FMV Cutscenes from the movie itself in the PS1, PC, and Dreamcast versions.
 * 3) Since you play as Buzz Lightyear, all the environments in the levels are scaled to Buzz's size.
 * 4) Each level has 5 objectives that award you with a Pizza Planet Token. These objectives are:
 * 5) * Platforming or puzzle-solving.
 * 6) * Racing or time-challenges.
 * 7) * Mini-Boss.
 * 8) * Find 50 coins.
 * 9) * Find 5 missing items for an NPC.
 * 10) Finding Mr. Potato Head's lost body parts unlocks power-ups that either help you out with parts of the game or are required for certain parts of levels.
 * 11) Rex gives you hints on how to get the Pizza Planet Tokens which is pretty helpful.
 * 12) The game haves an excellent soundtrack.
 * 13) Levels that involve vertical climbing often have shortcuts you can unlock to reduce backtracking.
 * 14) Most characters from the movie appear and most levels involve places the cast goes through the movie.
 * 15) When you aim in the first-person mode you can see Buzz's face reflected on his helmet which is pretty cool.
 * 16) While the game is faithful to the movie, there are parts like "Andy's Backyard", "Construction Site", and "Al's Space Center" which are not a part of the movie but are welcoming additions to the game and they somehow fit with the story.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Buzz has a hard time grabbing into ledges, which becomes more problematic when climbing high platforms because if he fails to grab the ledge you might fall all the way to the ground.
 * 2) Bosses can be too easy at times.
 * 3) *The final boss is just the last 3 sub bosses before it.
 * 4) NPCs constantly calling Buzz gets annoying quickly.
 * 5) The Nintendo 64 version lacks the movie cutscenes and has inferior MIDI versions of the soundtrack.
 * 6) Woody’s face in the PS1 Version is creepy & looks nothing like the original on the N64 and Dreamcast versions.
 * 7) The Dreamcast version's graphics are similar to the 5th gen versions making it way below the Dreamcast's standards.
 * 8) The Game Boy Color port is terrible.

Reception
Toy Story 2 received mixed to positive reception. While often considered not as good as other classic 3D platformers like Super Mario 64, it is also considered a good example of a movie-licensed video game that's actually decent or good.

Trivia

 * 1) While people were hacking the PlayStation Classic, someone posted the source code and people found mentions of other and better games than what was on the classic. Toy Story 2 among others was one of them.
 * 2) The demo version of the PS1 version haves a particle tech demo done in real-time. When asked about this on Twitter, John Burton said that the PS2 was showcased in the UK and they showed a particle tech demo running on the PS2 and he decided to try and recreate it on the PS1 and left it in the game's demo by accident.

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