Based on the Casper film, the game pits you in the role of the friendly ghost trying to make a friend and a second chance at life instead of scaring everyone away. The plot centers around the "spoiled, grasping inheritor of Whipstaff Manor" - Carrigan Crittenden. She's after the treasure she thinks is hidden in the walls. Casper will need the help of Dr James Harvey - therapist to the dead - if he has any hope of succeeding in his adventures. Casper will also have to deal with his uncles - Stretch, Stinkie and Fatso, who just love to scare "Fleshies" and thwart Casper's efforts. The gameplay is 3d - and is mostly puzzle solving, with Casper able to take a variety of forms and manipulating objects.
PlatformStrategyAdventureActionHistoricalComedyEducationalghostsmedievalbased on - tv showside-scrollingespionagebased on - movieedutainmenthidingdogmaidlicensed game3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Sega Saturn, PlayStation
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Character
Unpretentious, resolved, earnest and plot-driven.
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
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- Platforms
- 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Sega Saturn, PlayStation
- Developer
- G3 Interactive, Funcom
- Publisher
- Interplay
- Released
- September 15, 1996
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Side view
IGDB rating 5.5/10 from 23 ratings.
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