McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure

McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure is a video released for the Sega Genesis in on September 23, 1993 in Japan, October 1993 in Europe and December 1993 in North America. The game was developed by Treasure and published by Sega. It is the second game from Treasure following Gunstar Heroes. The game is based off the Mcdonald's fast food chain and its McDonaldland characters, Ronald McDonald, Grimace, Birdie the Early Bird, and the Hamburglar.

Plot
Ronald McDonald finds a piece of a treasure map in the Magical Forest and decides to find the rest of the pieces, unaware that three villains already have the other pieces and that the treasure is heavily guarded.

Why You'll be Lovin' it

 * 1) Simple easy to learn controls.
 * 2) Fluent and smooth controls necessary in a platform game.
 * 3) Bright and colorful graphics.
 * 4) Impressive soundtrack.
 * 5) At one point during Magical Town, the second level, you have to platform jump over dancing ballerinas. The music that plays during this part is Act II, number 10 of Swan Lake, which is famous for also being the opening theme of the 1931 adaption of Dracula with Bela Lugosi.
 * 6) Numerous power-ups that increase your overall health and upgrades Ronald's magic and can even save Ronald if he falls into a pit.
 * 7) Ronald's health is indicated by magic red gems. Not only do they act as health, but they can be used by the other McDonaldland characters to progress through the game and help make the bosses vulnerable to Ronald's magic.
 * 8) Flowers act as extra energy reserves for Ronald. If he has three white flowers when he gets hit, the flowers will become a red gem. Two golden flowers do the same thing.
 * 9) Since Ronald needs to give red gems to make bosses vulnerable, enemies appear on the screen which can give health when defeated.
 * 10) A shop in the game provides Ronald with all the power-ups the game has to offer.
 * 11) A mini-game also offers Ronald with power-ups if he can match three power-ups three times that is identical to "Columns".
 * 12) Ronald's scarf can be used to access higher areas.
 * 13) Though the game is designed with kids in mind, it has an expert setting for more skilled players.
 * 14) Has most of the McDonaldland characters, which can allow older gamers to relive some nostalgic memories.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Weak story, with an equally weak ending.
 * 2) Way too easy even on expert setting, especially for the standards of Treasure games.
 * 3) The only thing that's makes Easy different from Medium and Hard mode is the amount of health enemies drain and the amount of health enemies drain too, along with the amount of lives and gems you start off with. The level design doesn't change at all either.

Reception
The game has a 3.69 on GameFAQs. Mike Matei reviewed the game on Cinemassacre and praised the bright, colorful graphics, the fluent control, the simple control scheme and the music. He did however criticize the poor story and low replay value.

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