The Land Before Time: Return to the Great Valley

The Land Before Time: Return to the Great Valley is a 2000 puzzle platformer game developed by Real Time Associates and published by Sound Source Interactive. The game was distributed in Europe by TDK Mediactive.

Plot
Little Foot and his friends find a dinosaur egg and try to find its' nest until a Sharptooth comes and scares off the main characters into the Mysterious Beyond. Littlefoot, Cera, Spike, and Ducky all have 5 level puzzles to complete to get back to the Great Valley.

The player must play in a 3D platformer and solve puzzles to make their way to the Great Valley. Petrie flies around the playable character to give hints.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The cutscene fmvs use the in game character models which are just nightmare fuel to see in fmvs. Also really lazy on their part.
 * 2) The playable characters are slow.
 * 3) The camera control makes no sense. Despite supporting analog control the right analog stick is not used, instead you use the shoulder buttons  except L2 rotates the camera to the right and R2 rotates it to the left.
 * 4) Petrie repeatedly says the hints and it gets really annoying quickly. However this is only easy difficulty...
 * 5) The gameplay difficulty options have minimal to no difference. The only "difference" is that Petrie repeats the hints on easy, says them once in medium and nothing on hard. So play on hard.
 * 6) Once you return to the valley, you can not replay their adventure unless you start a new game.
 * 7) The main menu does not even have the games' title on screen.
 * 8) You collect 99 treestars to get an extra life even though the instruction booklet says 100.
 * 9) You can view the end credits only if you pause the game and select credits, which is just plain dumb.
 * 10) The instruction booklet and Petrie don't tell what you are supposed to do on the Cera level with the memory games.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) All of the characters have different levels.
 * 2) The OST sounds like it is from the movies.
 * 3) Good sound effects.