I’m sure that there are several people out there, perhaps up to a dozen, who will remember Hook as that crappy movie from the 90’s that featured a grown-up Peter Pan. Slightly fewer people will remember the movie tie-in.
And for good reason.
Hook (the game, I never actually saw the movie) is terrible. It was so horrendously bad that I couldn’t make it past two stages before I gave up completely. You take control of Peter Pan (you know, that kid that can fly) and have to go through the various stages that comprise the island in search of various items. Presumably this is for the climactic showdown with Captain Hook, the game’s titular character. In the movie, Peter Pan was played by Robin Williams. In this game, Peter Pan looks more like Ben Stiller dressed up as Eddie Munster.
Your Pan is well-armed to fight off the gigantic insects, wild animals, and pirates wielding swords that are as long as they are tall. He has a dagger. A dagger that’s not so much a ‘dagger’ as it is a ‘dulled letter opener’. When you ‘thrust’ the ‘dagger’ at the ‘enemies’ you really just kind of show them your letter opener. You’re not a threat to much of anything other than the delicious food that is scattered around the island for one reason or another.
I managed to collect the requisite amount of Quest Items in the first stage of the game to move on to the second. Right after immediately I got frustrated at the inability of Peter to not crash headlong into every sharp thing he walked by. About halfway through stage 2 I began to walk directly into the pirates’ scimitars, and then decided to never play this game again.