Winnie the Pooh’s Rumbly Tumbly Adventure starts off with Pooh and Christopher Robin playing in the Hundred Acre Woods. Soon the little bear realizes that he is hungry (big surprise there). Christopher Robin tells Pooh that he can take his mind off of the “rumbly tumbly” if he focuses on happy memories. Pooh thinks that this is a great idea and begins to remember the wonderful adventures he had with all of his friends on their birthdays.
The game is split up into five adventures. You get to join the lovable, huggable bear as he celebrates Piglet’s, Roo’s, Tigger’s, and Eeyore’s birthdays – and then you get to play through Pooh’s own birthday adventure. These adventures consist of you running around the woods solving various puzzles and completing chores for your friends. There are times when you have to take control of the other characters in order to complete your missions. Typically these tasks are simple and easy to get through, so to make matters a little more interesting, there are times when you have to avoid heffalumps and woozles who roam the lands you visit.
Thankfully, it is easy to get rid of them – all you have to do is pop a balloon. The challenge comes in avoiding the odd creatures while you search the area for the balloon. That’s not all you’re hunting while trying to celebrate your friends’ birthdays. As Pooh, you can examine everything around you – and certain objects will reveal pots of honey. You need these pots because as you progress through an adventure, you will be blocked by swarms of bees. They will only let you pass when you pay the toll in honey pots.
In general, the game is easy to get through and the puzzles (though interesting) are rarely a huge challenge. There were several times when I found myself stumped, and in those cases it was typically because I was over-thinking the problem.
Winnie the Pooh’s Rumbly Tumbly Adventure uses passwords instead of saved games. This became an annoyance fast because even though I was given passwords on a regular basis, there were a few times when I wanted to play the game but forgot my passwords sheet at home, and found myself starting over again. Thankfully, Rumbly Tumbly Adventure isn’t a huge game so it never took me a long time to catch up and surpass my previous location in the game.
