Elmo is on the search for numbers and needs your help to find themElmo is on the search for numbers and needs your help to find themElmo is on the search for numbers and needs your help to find them
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Jerry Nelson
- Count Von Count
- (voice)
Frank Oz
- Cookie Monster
- (voice)
- …
Caroll Spinney
- Big Bird
- (voice)
Steve Whitmire
- Ernie
- (voice)
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Kid May Love It, But Adults Will Be Bored Quickly
Elmo's Number Journey is one of two Sesame Street games released for the Playstation and Nintendo 64 (as well as the Game Boy Color, but that port is a different game). Basically, it's the day of the Sesame Street Number Parade, and Elmo goes looking for numbers. Immediately, you soon find out Elmo only moves in one speed: as slow as a marionette on strings, as he walks no matter how far the analog stick is pressed.
The game offers three difficulties, which changes how many correct guesses are needed to advance and how many wrong guesses you will be allowed, as well as adding items among the numbers (with said items appearing in different quantities to make sure you find the ones that are the same number you are tasked with collecting). There are only three sections led by classic Sesame Street characters Count Von Count, Ernie, and Cookie Monster, and they take Elmo on adventures in areas like Cookie World, the Count's Castle, and the Number Carnival. The object is to collect the right amount of numbers the Muppet tells Elmo to collect, in both number and object form. Once enough is collected, Elmo goes to the bonus round, which differs via difficulty, as Easy is basically counting, while Medium and Hard are simple addition and subtraction problems that are easy to solve. It does get tedious since it's basically the same game, but it does mix it up (Cookie Monster's levels see Elmo jet skiing on a river of chocolate and snowboarding on a mountain made of sugar, and the second level of Ernie's Carnival has Elmo control a bumper car), and they did get the puppeteers who voiced the characters at the time of its release to reprise their roles (and it's even more amazing that the N64 port has a lot of voice clips, despite being on a cartridge). This is basically only enjoyable if the player is at the right age for such games, otherwise, only play if you are a longtime Sesame Street fan.
The game offers three difficulties, which changes how many correct guesses are needed to advance and how many wrong guesses you will be allowed, as well as adding items among the numbers (with said items appearing in different quantities to make sure you find the ones that are the same number you are tasked with collecting). There are only three sections led by classic Sesame Street characters Count Von Count, Ernie, and Cookie Monster, and they take Elmo on adventures in areas like Cookie World, the Count's Castle, and the Number Carnival. The object is to collect the right amount of numbers the Muppet tells Elmo to collect, in both number and object form. Once enough is collected, Elmo goes to the bonus round, which differs via difficulty, as Easy is basically counting, while Medium and Hard are simple addition and subtraction problems that are easy to solve. It does get tedious since it's basically the same game, but it does mix it up (Cookie Monster's levels see Elmo jet skiing on a river of chocolate and snowboarding on a mountain made of sugar, and the second level of Ernie's Carnival has Elmo control a bumper car), and they did get the puppeteers who voiced the characters at the time of its release to reprise their roles (and it's even more amazing that the N64 port has a lot of voice clips, despite being on a cartridge). This is basically only enjoyable if the player is at the right age for such games, otherwise, only play if you are a longtime Sesame Street fan.
- jeremycrimsonfox
- Jul 16, 2021
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