The main character of the game is Wesley, who enters a strange mansion and finds himself transformed into a half-boy/half-creature by a mad scientist named Dr. Drod. Wesley then befriends a disembodied brain named Brian and goes on a journey to find a way out of the mansion and return to normal.
Tropes:
- Alliterative Title: Both words in the title begin with "Cr".
- Bald of Evil: Dr. Drod is completely bald and is apparently scheming to take over the world with an army of creatures.
- Brain in a Jar: Wesley's ally Brian is a disembodied brain being kept alive in a jar.
- Cats Are Mean: The last obstacle preventing Wesley from leaving the mansion is a giant and vicious cat.
- Cats Have Nine Lives: In order to get past the giant cat at the end of the game, Wesley must eat eight items to eliminate most of the cat's nine lives.
- Curse Cut Short: After entering the bathroom by being defecated out by the horse's backside mounted above the toilet.Wesley: I feel like—Brian: Hey, watch it! Kids play this game!
- Extreme Omnivore: Wesley has to eat different items in order to shapeshift into something to neutralize his obstacles, and most of them are normally inedible objects such as a candle or a toy mouse.
- Faceless Eye: Many of the monsters Wesley has to get past have eyeballs for heads.
- Lame Pun Reaction: Wesley complains whenever Brian makes a pun.Brian: Hey, don't leaf me here!Wesley: I will if you don't stop making real bad puns.
- Mad Scientist: Dr. Drod is an evil scientist who has transformed Wesley into a half-boy/half-creature and claims to have created a whole army of creatures to take over the world.
- Power-Up Food: Wesley is able to eat stuff to transform and deal with the monsters that obstruct him, though most of the items he collects and eats aren't normally considered edible.
- Self-Deprecation: At one point, Brian suggests that Wesley could star in his own video game. Wesley, who happens to be voiced by Martin Short, doesn't agree.Brian: That's cute. You gotta have your own video game!Wesley: With some over-the-hill, sawed-off Canadian movie star doing my voice?! Uh-uh! No thanks!
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: When Wesley realizes at the end of the game that he forgot to reverse his creature transformation, Brian reveals that Wesley was only in a costume and he could've just removed it.
- Trouser Space: Wesley stores items in his pants.
- Winged Soul Flies Off at Death: The giant cat at the end of the game has an angel with wings and a halo fly off every time Wesley has made it lose one of its nine lives.
