While expecting the lazy cat to be a speed demon would be absurd, when he’s walking through a level he is horrendously slow, making jumping around constantly the best option for travel unless you really want to leisurely stroll up to the next area of interest.
When you start playing as Garfield though, everything goes downhill fast. Characters or objects that didn’t feature in them are noticeably different in style, but it was still a fairly interesting effort to try and build the scenes like they were comic panels right down to featuring official Jim Davis art throughout the adventure. It doesn’t always look the best but Garfield is basically transplanted directly from the colored strips you can still see in the Sunday funnies. What makes the cutscenes and levels more interesting is how most of the characters and enemies are images lifted directly from actual Garfield comics. At least the food he gets from the restaurant is promptly shared with the alleycat he threatened earlier, but this haphazard plot is definitely meant to be more a silly sequence of events to string along platforming stages than a real narrative to follow. Funnily enough shortly after that he gets sidetracked saving a bunch of chickens for Jon’s brother Doc and then seemingly forgets his goal as briefly the game becomes about Garfield’s quest to get to a Chinese restaurant. When an alley cat gets in the way of Garfield’s mission, Garfield unambiguously threatens to murder him until the cat bribes him with an acceptable amount of food, and later when Garfield’s owner Jon forces the cat to come with him to visit Jon’s sweet old mother, Garfield decides the only way he can get back outside to continue his mission is to be thrown out for tearing up all the furniture in the house. When the adventure begins Garfield does seem to be on a single-minded quest to retrieve his lost teddy bear, his desire to do so leading to some actually shockingly mean behavior.
Having a group of mice take away his precious teddy bear Pooky seems like a personal enough reason for the fat feline to overcome his lethargy, but in Garfield: The Search for Pooky, this quest to save a stuffed animal takes some unusual turns as Garfield seems both intensely invested in the rescue mission while at other times seemingly forgetting he’s on one at all. If you’re going to get the famously lazy comic strip cat Garfield up for a video game adventure, you really need a good motivation for why he’s willing to platform about and fight some other animals.
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