Pandora's Box: The Ultimate GameCube Tier List

#126: The Fairly Odd Parents: Breakin' Da Rules

Rating: E

Players: 1

Price Range: ~$25 USD

A game based on the cartoon show in the title.

While Fairly Odd Parents was watched quite a bit in my earlier years, in retrospect, I've sort of looked down on it.

It's because if you were to think about it critically, it was perfectly serviceable, at least until the final seasons before it crashed and burned, but it was clear that conceptually, Nick just sort of ran out of ideas for the show at the end of the day, and it came to the point that I just don't care for anything relating to the series anymore.

I believe that is why they just kept adding characters. They either ran out of roadway with their original concepts or just got lazy, with everything after the addition of Sparky just going downhill.

Why do you think Timmy has two fairies instead of one? Because the show wouldn't be interesting with one, even if it makes no sense even in-universe, and Cosmo, and especially Timmy's family, are made to be braindead to the point of nauseum in the later and rather disastrous seasons.

As for the game itself, which is based on the earlier seasons, it's...fine.

A linear platformer meant for children without much replay value. It functions as it should and isn't the worst thing in the world.

Although, I think the most memorable part of the game would be the final level. Here, you have the final showdown with Vicky, one of the main antagonists of the show, and the primary one in this game. In Fairy World, you two are sent into an arena after you regain the pages of Da Rules, the fairy rule book, from Vicky's possession after she stole the it (They do some magic stuff I guess to make sure she has no idea where she is or what is around her...I guess).

And here, the fairies turn Vicky into an actual dragon and have the arena be this circle around her made up of buttons corresponding to a fragment of a sentence, and because Vicky hates Timmy, she'll obviously try to smatter him into a pancake.

What you have to do is to fool Vicky into pressing these buttons in a specific sequence in order to have her indirectly wish to give up her possession of the fairy rule book, Da Rules.

This is an admittedly pretty cool and unique final boss that is actually pretty hard and easy to mess up, which I like.

Other than that, it is very standard licensed video game stuff we've come to expect at this point. Unless you are a very serious fan of this long dead show, you aren't missing anything.