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Ribbit King
Developer Bandai
Publisher Bandai
Platform GameCube!
I love sci-fi stories where some radical new technology is required for the plot to even work. Ribbit King is like that. Let’s face it: A frog golf game just wouldn’t make sense without the notion of a galaxy spawning Frolf league, which you and your talking picnic basket side-kick have to win (against a horde of super-cute alien foes) to obtain enough Ribbinite to save your planet.
Against that back story, the game of Frolf plays pretty much just how you want it to. You set your frog on a little catapault, then hit it with a mallet to send him leaping towards the hole. Along the way he can grab flies, bounce off spider webs and interact with a host of environmental challenges (watch out for snakes!). Aim and your jump meter matter, but hitting bonuses and picking the right frog from your collection for each shot (you can carry up to three to each hole) are the keys to succeeding at Frolf… and saving your planet.
Your competitors feature one of the rogues galleries in games. Among others there’s a space panda, twin pigs, and two obsessive videogame playing twins. My favorite is Sir Waddlelot, a wind up robotic duck, from whom you can win a robot frog!
The GameCube version in the US came with a bonus disc of unlockable movies. They’re cute low-res bits of backstory. Until about December 2010, a lot of them were up on the RibbitKing.com website, along with wallpapers, but it’s sadly down now. :( Luckily you can still pick this game up, essentially for free, anywhere GameCube games are sold!
