Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wrath of the Darkhul King Game Boy Advance
  • Publisher: THQ
  • Release Date: Jun 24, 2003
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44 out of 100

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8.6 out of 10

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  • Summary: Buffy the Vampire Slayer on the GBA has little in common with the popular TV series it's based on, and it's a bad game to boot.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 16
  3. Negative: 9 out of 16
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    91
    The virtual Slayer actually looks, moves, and grunts like the real Ms. Summers. Coolest feature: the ability to kill vamps by demolishing rooftops to let the sun shine in. [18 July 2003, p.83]
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  2. Nintendojo
    60
    I played for half an hour on my GBA SP and started getting pains in my wrists. It would have been a much sounder decision to have only one attack button and use A to jump.
  3. GameSpy
    45
    There isn't a single original or inspired moment in any of the game's 16 levels...The level design is so pathetic that the game first recycles a background tile set from Level 1 in Level 3!
  4. Game Informer
    43
    In a game, you need a control scheme that makes sense and works. Buffy's doesn't. At all... Try as I might, there's nothing that I can compliment or even remotely endorse in this game. [Sept 2003, p.126]
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  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
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  3. Negative: 1 out of 2
  1. RurikJ.
    10
    Hey its really fun to be the slayer and kick ass, killing demons, vampires and following some cool unique story ! I loved this game ! Its one of my favorates ! And with some pics from the characters it makes even better ! I say its an A+ ! 1000000 all the way ! … Expand
  2. GilbertMulroneycakesInConversation
    3
    Watch the show instead. This is almost, but not quite, entirely not worthy of association. It feels like a Streets-Of-Rage-but-platformy rip off from about 7 or so years ago. Buffy fans: take the identity of the game's Big Bad as a warning. It's not Angelus, the Mayor, Glory, or even Warren. It's Adam. Skip it.… Expand