My level of knowledge on smurfs evolve arround an old TV series I have seen a couple of episode 20 years ago and some comics read around the same time. With other words i knew some names and thats it. I didnt pick this games for smurf. I choose it because on paper it sounds like one of the TT Lego games for me or some mario like title. Casual arcade collectathon fun so to speak.

I didnt expect much and got my fair share of fun out of it. I found the plot intriguing enough to follow through and the voice overs where suprisingly good in terms of writing, humor and voice acting. Making this a enjoyable part of the journey. The smurf world is in trouble and evil vines spread across the smurf forest. Some smurfs are missing and four smurf rise to shine to rescue their fellow friend in blue and stopping what ever evil plan Gargamel has this time.
Each level is filled with riddles, secrets and collectables. Riddles can last from movement sequences to finding triggers in order to ride yourself of some obstacles. Your handy devices to accomplish this. A vaccum sort of antidote spraying backpack. It can make you fly, it cleans the world and a can be used to slay enemies in your path. Or it could if you upgrade it. Which make early levels challenging and harder and later easier. Each level felt well balanced. And it should be clear that the main audience of the game are children. I would imagine myself being able to beat the game at a younger age. For me as an adukt I got surprised by two well design levels. One swamp level felt immersivly awesome with gargamel being patrolling arround you and one where you lose you handy device and need play throught the level a stipped to basic smurf. Replaying the level with your device is whole different expierence. All that tells me this game is done with thought and heart behind it.

What I personally dont like is collectables and collectathons. I dont wanna put this as bad thing for this game it just I dont enjoy grinding for collectables or grinding at all. This leaves me with the bitter taste of have to much left behind and discorvering everything since I quickly burn out of trying to find everything. For you achievement hunter there is a kinda challening achievement for one of the final levels. Resolving of beating it without being seen. Really fun to do this one.

At the end I might wanna play the second game aswell. But not for now. I expected a half taped together franchise money grabbing game and got surprised with good quality adventure game. Will be one game I allow my future kids to play for sure.

So long my friends.

Act 1 signs and omens:
What makes us human? is the question Smurfs- Mission Vileaf asks, it all begins with a simple goal... our protagonist Hefty must cleanse the forest from the vile corruption which has taken hold... and so he is lead by Papa Smurf to collect the mystical items to begin the purification process, throughout this journey Hefty fights tooth and nail finding each and every one of these legendary artifacts all in the hopes of bringing rest to his once peaceful realm, all of this culminates at the end of the Spire of Smurfobos where he brings all the artifacts and with it came the being which had caused this vile infection to take over... and so as he slew the wretched beast he had unknowingly released the rest of the corruption causing the beginning of the thousand year wish... the Great plague.

Papa smurfs comes in and grabs Hefty by the neck and lifts him as he stares dead into his eyes and says
"Now Hefty, let us begin. Together we shall write the end of this wretched fairy tale, in ink black as despair"
cut to black... credits roll...
The game boldly ends on such a cliffhanger... but then your screen fades white at the end...

Act 2 Scattered petals, dying flames:

As Hefty awakes in a prison chained he is filled with rage and sadness, he had caused the the end of his world... the world he had sworn to protect... for the rest of the game he hunts down Papa smurf taking out each and every one of his goons as he continues his masterful scheme to bring the end of all things. As Hefty moves blindly filled with vengeance and a need to repent to fix what he caused even if unknowing he still feels responsible... and so he moves forward relentlessly and meets Gargamel where he learns the truth of the Great plague, it was an event which was the manifestation of the smurfs desire to conquer all, the corruption itself a testament of the ever lasting wish to take control of all things all humans have...

Act 3 Finale:

As Hefty moves forward towards he reaches Papa Smurfs fortress, the place where it all ends yet where it all begins, he runs through the boundless halls taking each and every enemy down one by one... all until he reaches his ultimate goal... Papa smurf... and so as it was foretold in the ancient scripture he engaged in combat with him... Papa Smurf wished to bring about complete control over all smurfkind, as he feared smurfs could not be trusted with their own future, they were bound to repeat the same mistakes again and again... the corruption would allow him to control it all and prevent such things to transpire, but Hefty opposed such ideals and retorted towards him and said the life changing line "We're going to take responsibility for our acts, and in doing so we will rise to greater heights" he strikes him down... and so as the Great plague came to a close Hefty kneels down next to papa smurf staring off into the breaking dawn... a testament to what's to come, but his story is not over... he still loathes himself for what he caused, the Great plague might be gone but they had to rebuild, and he still hated himself, hated how he got to live and so many didn't...

and so comes this masterpiece to end, setting up for it's sequel as there is still a character arc to fulfill, this game changed my life for the better, you can notice the shift from pre smurf to post smurf...

Please i beg, play this life changing kino game...

I'm recommending because I think it is a good game to gift ur enemies