Scooby-Doo! Unmasked | The Best Scooby Doo Game Ever!?

Welcome to the third and final part of the Scooby-Doo-a-Thon! This time we're looking at Scooby-Doo! Unmasked which was developed by Artificial Mind and Movement and released in 2005 for the PS2, Xbox and GameCube.
This game goes back to trying to convert the Scooby Doo series into a 3D collect-a-thon platformer, so the main question I have going into this is how does it compare to Night of 100 Frights? After-all this was made a few years after that game, so hopefully they were able to improve quite drastically on Scooby's first PS2 outing? But there's only one way to find out, let's take a look!
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[@dvp1694]

Unmasked was GOATED I appreciate you giving this series a cheeky little retrospective I loved the game so seeing this (and I plan to again) was nice nostalgia

[@PixelPursuit]

I'm really glad you enjoyed it! It was really fun taking a look at all of these games in a retrospective like this!

[@chrismurphy2119]

My first game ever played on the PS2 at 5yr old and I still play it to this day at 22 ! Same disc same ps2 absolutely the reason I fell in love with games

[@PixelPursuit]

That's amazing! That's what I love about games like this, there's always someone out there that it means a lot to and that have fond memories of them!

[@JulioAnt2000]

Same here! Was my very first video game to my first console. It was a gift on Christmas I got from my parents. Because at the time, I was a huge fan of Scooby Doo and still am to this day.

[@morganhagar9872]

I remember playing this game when I was like 4-5 and Garbo at games, literally didn't get past the first area. Now I wanna get it and play it as an adult

[@PixelPursuit]

You should give it another shot! It's actually got some pretty interesting ideas and I had fun with it!

[@The_Beast_3365]

I don't really know or understand why Sony doesn't put Scooby Doo Unmasked for free for PS Plus Subscribers for PS4 and PS5 ps plus Premium, this game was such a classic back in those days and so much nostalgia as well, Sony are so dumb to not bring this game back for the old gen and new gen consoles, even if Sony added it to the PS4 and PS5 just for 1 month let's say, everyone would be so hyped up! 🙂💪🤣😉👍

[@PixelPursuit]

They've really not been doing very well with providing more games on that service. They've hardly added any PS1 or 2 games since the new tiers appeared. Hopefully we'll see some massive updates for that in the future because we're missing so many classics! I suppose the issue with putting licensed games on there is that it can sometimes be a bit weird with who actually owns the game. Like Warner Bros own Scooby Doo as a property, but THQ published the game, but then THQ went bust and was brought back as THQ Nordic but might not actually have the rights to this particular game anymore. We did see the Toy Story 2 game get released on PS Plus though, so anything can happen!

[@Kaazikin]

Don't think they have the rights to do that with a multi platform game

[@justindrugan5309]

Technically the Robin Hood costume shoots, toilet plungers.

[@TimelordUK]

Merry Christmas Rob. I'm a barber and in my shop this week I was talking about retro gaming to a client and I mentioned your channel. He said he's already subscribed!!! He enjoys your videos too. I just wanted to share that with you. What a great way for strangers to connect! Hope father Christmas brings you all the games on your wish list. I'm currently playing resident evil 1 on a PSone disk inside my ps3, and FEZ which I didn't even know was available for the ps3. I got it last week and I've played it every night after work before bed to calm down. Love it. Merry Christmas x

[@PixelPursuit]

Merry Christmas! Oh wow that's amazing, thanks so much for recommending me like that! He was already subscribed before you even mentioned me? That's insane! I've never come across anyone who has heard of my channel before 😂 So far I've got God of War Ragnarok which I'm looking forward to checking out! Have you got out of the mansion in Resi yet? I've actually never gotten into FEZ even though I have tried a couple of times now! Merry Christmas! I hope you have a really good one! 🥳

[@TimelordUK]

@@PixelPursuit I'm currently spending Christmas in The Guardhouse with the spiders and lots of water x

[@PixelPursuit]

Haha, I hope you had a good time with the spiders and water! :D

[@MissyGeorge]

This was the first console game I ever played, on the OG Xbox. I played the first two later on, but I remember playing and beating this one more. Finally played through it again a few years ago and beat it 100% for the very first time! Thanks for being like the only reviewer I've seen to not completely crap all over it.

[@PixelPursuit]

If I had played all of these when I was younger, I definitely would have played this one the most too. It's surprising to hear that people don't typically like this game. I really enjoyed it and it was by far my favourite of the three!

[@SHMEGAF]

I loved all 3 growing up. But one game that gets very little recognition (mostly due to its difficult to master controls) Is Classic Creep Capers on N64. It's a survival horror genre game similar to the Resident Evil and Silent Hill franchises. Tank controls (albeit rougher than most) and the main goal is finding clues and trap pieces to solve each mystery and catch the monster. Personally it's a gameplay style i deeply wish another Scooby Doo game would utilize. As it's probably the best way to do a Scooby Doo game aside from the similar structure of the point and click games Scooby has a plethora of. Maybe even try those out if you haven't already. ^^

[@PixelPursuit]

A few people have mentioned that to me, I have played the Game Boy Color version of that and I remember getting stuck really early on. I remember even the handheld version was reminiscent of a survival horror game too! Maybe one day I'll give Classic Creep Capers a go along with Cyber Chase on the PS1!

[@deathpie24]

My favorite thing is this game includes cartoon physics When running around and off a ledge scooby will flail in the air before falling, giving you time to jump and recover Another is a slide off the edge and you sit there for a short time in the air before falling

[@Nanko203]

Ah my childhood right here. I loved this game so much as a kiddo ❤️ It was fun when I replayed it recently. It has it flaws but still as charming as when I was a kid. My favorite area was the museum.

[@dillonmoore9810]

Early 2000s PS platformers/games were pretty solid and regarded as a golden age by many for games like the entire Crash franchise, Battle for Bikini Bottom, Pacman World and my all time favorite game franchise; the Sly Cooper franchise. There's still many I likely hadn't played or heard of as well with such an expansive library. It's such a fascinating era of game development right the brink of it becoming a purely profit driven industry. Games just aren't often developed this way anymore or with this style/limitations unless it's indie or the very rare humble studio release. I'll always remember my youth fondly because of these games and the connections I made due to them.

[@SplashSurfer216]

I agree with you regarding the story and how unfocused it feels. I used to love this game as a kid although I was at first disappointed it wasn’t Mystery Mayhem like I wanted initially. But looking back now, I notice a lot of its flaws. Such as recycling monsters from the TV show as enemies and bosses (Except for the Guitar Ghoul) the most damming example is in Chinatown. The whole build up to Maggie Xi as being behind Zen Tuo was poorly done. All we know is that she disappears every time the dragon roars. But you know, there’s one other person you meet in Chinatown once and never see again, Ho Fong. All we hear from Daphne is that he left before she got captured. Where is he? In the original episode this world is based off of, he was behind Zen Tuo! Also, the idea of Maggie being a robot makes no sense as why would they put a robot in charge of the New Year’s parade?

[@PixelPursuit]

A lot of people seem to have a soft spot for Mystery Mayhem! I really liked it too but I figured most people would hate it because it wasn't a platformer. But yeah, the story of Unmasked could have probably been a lot better if they had put more effort into it. I literally didn't even notice that Ho Fong completely disappeared like that! There's a lot of strange plot holes here isn't there!

[@ShezInTheShed]

I’d say night of hundred frights unmasked then mystery mayhem!!

[@PixelPursuit]

That's a fair ranking. I would imagine a lot of people would have the same opinion as you! Personally though I think Unmasked has the edge over Night of 100 Frights by a little bit :D

[@nicholashlibka9889]

I got this game when I was 5 or 6 and couldn’t get passed the intro level and just started actually making progress

[@PixelPursuit]

That's a similar experience to what I had with Rascal on the PS1! I never really made it very far and only recently finished it for the first time.

[@StayMadLmfao]

Beat this fuckin game so many times over as a kid. So many memories. My mom still talks about how I would sit in front of my GameCube for hours eating those graham cracker Scooby Snacks playing Scooby Doo Unmasked. Love this game to bits

[@PixelPursuit]

That's awesome! I'm so surprised to find so many people coming across this video who have such fond memories of this game. I honestly thought that nobody had even heard of it, so it's been amazing hearing stories like that!

[@cdesigner9178]

It's more that wherever the gang goes, there's always already trouble. In other words, they just have the WORST luck.

[@captainboose8788]

Just watched all your SD videos man, I have to say, NO100F was, and still is my favorite, Mayhem was too puzzle based for me, and my Unmasked disk was scratched, so I was never able to beat it without it crashing LOL.

[@Kaazikin]

I grew up playing all 3. Definitely played this game the most? I think? Night of 100 frights i loved as well. Mystery Mayhem i played a lot as well but struggled with as i was pretty young. Love to see these reviews

[@PixelPursuit]

I think you picked the best one out of the three to spend the most time with! Thanks for watching them :D

[@kellycarroll6829]

you can't really go wrong with Scooby and the gang! glad you enjoyed the game and the review was really fun!🌟

[@ThemeParksAndAttractions]

Miss your classic countdown video's 👌

[@PixelPursuit]

It's not very often I tend to do countdown videos anymore really is it! I suppose technically the last one would have been about the Mario Kart tracks I want to see in Mario Kart 8 if you count that one!

[@Moominfini]

I'm not much of a Scooby Doo fan but this game looks interesting. Well written and fair review as usual.

[@PixelPursuit]

Out of the three that I looked at this year, Unmasked is definitely the highlight!

[@georgejonesthestarseeds77]

Have you played any of the SpongeBob games, including the movie game, BFBB, and Creature from the Kristy Krab? That spin attack is everywhere 😱😱 but hey I guess it better than no attack

[@PixelPursuit]

I've played a tiny bit of BFBB and the movie game but not for years, so I don't really remember them all too much! It would actually be quite interesting to play a 3D platformer like this where there's literally no attack, I don't think I've ever seen that done before!

[@therunawaykid6523]

Yeah I need to play this game I love 3d platformers and this looks just my kind of game

[@ClaudioVarone3299]

The intro of Unmasked was the best between the three main games, an huuge improvement especially if compared with that nightmare intro of Mystery Mayhem.

[@NoelleSmash]

I played both but I played night of 100 frights way more, and I still prefer it. I'm replaying night of 100 frights right now so I'll see how they hold up after playing unmasked afterwards.

[@PixelPursuit]

Night of 100 Frights is definitely the more popular game, it was the only one of this weird trilogy of games that I had previously briefly played back in the day. I think Night of 100 Frights is way closer to the actual TV show which makes it far more charming, but for me Unmasked is the overall best even if it doesn't feel as much like Scooby Doo.

[@arioca]

I enjoyed your Scooby-Doo reviews! Have you played Scooby-Doo! Who's Watching Who for the PSP?

[@PixelPursuit]

Thank you! No, I've never played any Scooby-Doo game outside of these three and Classic Creep Capers for the Game Boy actually. Is Who's Watching Who good? Someone else has brought this up too so now I'm interested in it 😅

[@arioca]

@@PixelPursuit I don't know if it's good or not because I never played it but coincidently I recently watched a KZbinr reviewing Who's Watching Who so I was curious about what's your take on it.

[@chrisdiokno5600]

Unmasked was great, as was Night of 100 Fights. Query, did you ever do a vid on Scooby Doo Classic Creep Capers? Was on the N64

[@PixelPursuit]

Stay tuned for the Classic Creep Capers video! As well as Cyber Chase for the PS1! I'm working on both of them but it's taking me longer than usual because of life stuff :D

[@ThomasNosey]

A major point about these reviews should be that these games were intended for children, not fully grown adults with over a decade of gaming experience.

[@PixelPursuit]

While that's absolutely true, I still think that games primarily aimed at children can be fun for anyone. I mean Mario games are aimed primarily at kids and everybody loves them. Plus, games aimed at children still need to have a degree of quality, even when I was a kid I could tell the difference between a good game and a bad game, so I still think reviewing stuff like this is somewhat interesting.

[@deathpie24]

Those children eventually grow up

[@BradLad56]

Interesting little tidbit for everyone: Artificial Mind and Movement would eventually become Behaviour Interactive, who are most known these for making Dead by Daylight.

[@Sphinxy17]

I wish this was available on current gen consoles, I have very obscure memories of this game and I need to play it

[@TimelordUK]

Hey Rob I hope you are ok. Here's a mystery even Scooby and the gang can't solve, Robbie Roo, where are you???? Not had a video for a while!! I need some retro pixel in my life. Hope you are well and will drop another video soon. Take care.

[@PixelPursuit]

I'm doing well thank you! How are you? Haha 😂 I've never really thought about the fact that Scooby would be able to pronounce my name properly before! As for the lack of videos, that's because I'm working on about 5 videos all at the same time which means that progress is going slowly on all of them 😅 I hope to have two Christmas themed videos going up in December though and I'm also working on some new Super Monkey Ball videos too! Fingers crossed all of that stuff will be up relatively soon!

[@TimelordUK]

@@PixelPursuit great to hear from you. I'll look forward to your videos. I'm currently playing Resident Evil PS1 from 1996! I started off with Res Evil 2 on its release and I've never played this. Have you covered it on your channel? I wondered if you'd consider playing and reviewing the first 3 games, the way you reviewed the early silent hills. I enjoyed those videos very much

[@PixelPursuit]

That's an awesome game to be playing! Even though it's somewhat dated now, I still love going back to the original Resi! And yes I actually have already covered the first game! It was a long time ago now though but I'm still pretty happy with how it turned out! Here's a link to it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2nQY5iZeZWqb80 As for covering the other Resi games, I've very often thought about doing that, it's definitely on the table for sure because it's been such a long time since I've played 2 and 3!

[@TimelordUK]

@@PixelPursuit ooh now that is a video I would DEFINITELY watch. I love your opinions on games I love x

[@TimelordUK]

@@PixelPursuit I'm going to watch your Res 1 today (hopefully you'll time stamp the spoilers, you usually do, because I'm still playing it)

[@cdesigner9178]

I played this game on the OG XBOX, and I don't think the game ever crashed. So maybe it's just the PS2 version?

[@emilyalucard]

Yes yes it is so much nostalgia

[@NitrotheWolf300]

Why does Scooby's Kung Fu projectile look like Kamehameha right down to the pose?

[@PixelPursuit]

I would assume that was probably done on purpose, if I remember right he even says "Scooby-dooby-doo" in a similar way to how "Kamehameha" would be said! It worked out very well with the amount of syllables!

[@NitrotheWolf300]

@@PixelPursuit good point

[@cultureguide3660]

For me night of 100 frights better. But i played on Gamecube , Unmasked I played on Xbox .

[@PixelPursuit]

Night of 100 Frights definitely has some positives over this one, I think it's by far the most faithful to the source material, but Unmasked is the game I preferred overall! Both were pretty great though!

[@felixleidig8307]

you gotta talk about first frights and spooky swamp aswell as the n64 game...reviewa all scooby doo games lol would be cool

[@PixelPursuit]

It's definitely not out of the question that I'll cover them one day! Since I've started working at Retro Dodo though these reviews have been on the back burner. But rest assured I am slowly chipping away at stuff here too :D

[@BlackEyedkoala]

There was another game, scooby doo and the cyber chase from what I remember that was good but unmasked was the goat

[@PixelPursuit]

I really want to review Cyber Chase and Classic Creep Capers but I've been ridiculously busy lately and haven't had the time 😅 they will definitely be the next two games I look at though when I get around to it!

[@KegOfMeat]

I didnt play this until a few years ago but I got stuck and havent been back to it since

[@PixelPursuit]

Where did you get stuck? I can see some of the boss battle being a little bit tricky but once you learn the gimmick, they're normally quite easy!

[@KegOfMeat]

@@PixelPursuit no idea it was a couple of years ago.

[@josuemederos8096]

I love this game

[@Mymy_64]

I think Night of 100 frights was better. Mainly for being longer and having more longer levels. Unmasked had some pretty short levels at times(especially the Museum level) and the final boss was just a giant version of a regular enemy.

[@PixelPursuit]

That's understandable for sure, Night of 100 Frights had a lot of great elements to it. Nowadays I actually tend to prefer shorter games so that probably would be a positive for me haha! That's true about the last boss, but at least it's mechanically different to a normal enemy, so I didn't mind that too much.

[@robomuffin1386]

I do hope you finish off the Scooby games next October (since these reviews are great) I mean there's only 4.5 3D games left (just avoid the 2D ones since... most of the non Point and Click ones are poorly made) just save First Frights/Spooky Swamp for last since it dose take notes from the prior Scooby games seemly.

[@PixelPursuit]

Nothing is set in stone, but it seems people enjoyed last years Scooby-Doo-a-Thon, so it's possible I'll do it again. There's definitely a few more games in the series that I'm interested in! Classic Creep Capers and Cyber Chase are the main two I like the look of!

[@robomuffin1386]

@@PixelPursuit If your gonna play Cyber Chase.... I wish you luck mate your gonna need it lets just say. I would add First Fights to that list since it does have the best boss fights of any Scooby Game> I would also recommend Who's Watching Who (PSP) .... no real reason I mean its better than Cyber Chase despite how buggy it is.

[@PixelPursuit]

Oh no, that's very foreboding haha! Yeah, First Frights, Spooky Swamp and Who's Watching Who are definitely the other ones I would want to go into if a second marathon happens. That's a hell of a lot of games to go through though!

[@jupitersnoot4915]

I have this game but i haven't played it in years. I never got past the theme park level lol

[@hakkin_d]

Awesome vid, love this game!

[@PixelPursuit]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! I was thinking that nobody had heard of this game, so it's good to see it has it's fans out there :D

[@jad7932]

Regardless of the flaws, how is that grounds for not calling the game a hidden gem. This is one of my favourite ps2 games of all time. All your complaints were more so ps2 generation game complaints, I really don’t think this was exclusive to unmasked. There’s so much to praise in this game. If you haven’t played it, it think it’s an essential ps2 game that everyone should experience. For what it is, the game is great.

[@PixelPursuit]

It's probably slightly held back by the fact that it's based on Scooby Doo honestly. If it had been reworked into an original game it might have had a bigger audience because people would have probably seen that it's Scooby Doo and then passed on it because it's just another licensed game. Although, obviously on the other hand, having Scooby Doo attached to it probably gave it a bigger budget and would have attracted certain people to it in the first place, so it's a double edged sword! It probably is a bit of a hidden gem! Did I say that it wasn't? Haha, I don't even remember what I said specifically about it now!

[@matthewbolitho-jones]

I like Scooby-Doo! Unmasked

[@I_Liked_MGQ_For_The_Plot]

Honestly out of the three that I played I liked this one the least, 100 frights at number one, MM at 2. But it was still a pretty competent game.

[@farisomeragic8900]

Please do a review of scooby doo and guess who for psp

[@PixelPursuit]

That's a bit more of an obscure one isn't it! If I ever looked at more, I would probably cover Classic Creep Capers and Cyber Chase first, then maybe move on to First Frights and The Spooky Swamp. But to be honest I don't know if I'll ever actually get that far into the series haha! Is Who's Watching Who good then? Maybe I should have a look at that one!

[@farisomeragic8900]

@@PixelPursuit the thing is that, there is not good detailed review done so far about that PSP game. You could do it cuz you describe everything and that is freakin awesome.

[@Songwritersbehindthecurtain]

This is the best scooby doo video game 🎮 ever.

[@charliefazzari6389]

Sly Bandi-Doo The Game

[@RodriThunder]

Scooby-Doo!64 is good

[@PixelPursuit]

I never played the N64 version but I did have Classic Creep Capers on the Game Boy! It's probably very different though. I would imagine that the N64 version is better!

[@JasonMeintjes]

NO, FIRST FRIGHTS IS THE BEST!!!🥇

[@DogDayFromPoppyPlaytime180]

I like Mystery Mayhem way more , I find this game annoying