Open Season is a 2006 video game that is based on the
animated film of the same name.
Open Season shows examples of the following tropes:
- Adaptational Context Change: It is eventually revealed that Elliot is just leading Boog in circles instead of taking him to Timberline, but the reason is different from the film. In the film, Elliot just straight-up lied to Boog about knowing the way back, thinking if he and Boog hung out for awhile then Boog would like him. Here, it is revealed that Elliot apparently asked some moles for directions to Timberline and was just too dumb to realize that moles are blind.
- Adaptation Expansion: The game expands on Boog helping the animals.
- Adapted Out:
- The game has Boog and Elliot sent into the wild after being caught at the Puni Mart, leaving out the scene where Elliot disrupts Boog's show (forcing Beth to tranquilize them both).
- Bob and Bobbie do not appear at any point in the game, despite their minor roles in the film. Mr. Weenie is largely absent from gameplay as well apart from the boxart, but his only appearance is a final cutscene that uses still frames from the scene where Boog defeats Shaw.
- While many ducks are seen in the game, Serge's companion Deni is not one of them, apart from the boxart and the final cutscene.
- And Now for Someone Completely Different: A handful of levels allow you to play as Elliot, who controls much differently from Boog. While Boog is a Mighty Glacier who can't jump and can attack hunters head-on, Elliot can jump but lacks any combat capabilities and has to lure hunters into traps.
- But Thou Must!: Boog has to choose between returning home or heading to the woods to help the animals fight off the hunters. He ends up in the woods no matter what, either by his own volition or because McSquizzy switched the signs around.
- Canon Foreigner: An owl named Miss Feathers is featured in the game as a means to teach gameplay mechanics to Boog and Elliot.
- Dream Sequence: The first level takes place in a dream.
- Forced Tutorial: The level just after the dream level has a tutorial.
- Friend-or-Idol Decision: At one point, Boog has to choose whether to return to Timberline or help the animals survive open season in the woods. He gets railroaded into choosing the latter option.
- Funny Background Event: When Boog throws a rabbit onto a hunter's face, Boog will laugh at the hunter's misfortune. If he does this when other hunters are nearby, the other hunters actually laugh at their comrade being attacked.
- Go-Karting with Bowser: In the multiplayer mode, Boog, Elliot and Beth can play minigames with Shaw despite his hatred for them.
- Gratuitous Spanish:
- "C'mon, or it's adios los liberty, amigo!"
- The skunks speak in Spanish as well as English.
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No Export for You: None of the games were released in Japan. - Took a Level in Badass: Over the course of the game, Boog gradually learns new abilities and becomes more wild as he gets used to life in the woods.
