Spy Muppets: License to Croak


Spy Muppets: License to Croak is a 2003 action game, based on The Muppets franchise, developed by Vicarious Visions and published by TDK Mediactive for Microsoft Windows and Game Boy Advance. It is a spoof of the James Bond films, the title being a reference to Licence to Kill. The player controls Kermit the Frog through several stages in order to stop the bad guys.
The game was released to mostly mixed reviews, with criticism generally aimed at the game's short length.

Plot

Kermit the Frog works as Agent Frog for Agent Patriot of the spy organization M.U.P.P.E.T. At the start of the game, Agent Patriot debriefs Agent Frog on the suspicious activities undertaken by three villains who must be stopped in their plans.
Agent Frog is then given the opportunity to pursue each of the three villains in succession in whatever order he wishes - King Prawn, leader of S.H.E.L.L. ; Piggy Galore, a former top agent with M.U.P.P.E.T. whose warehouse hideout as a rogue has been uncovered; and Dr. Nose, who plans to turn the planet Earth into a giant egg from his frozen wasteland lair.
Each mission consists of four levels - a mechanical tool-selecting construction level in which Agent Frog puts together his mode of transportation, followed by two levels traveling to - and avoiding/defeating - the villain's henchmen. The final mission is a boss fight against one of King Prawn, Piggy Galore or Dr. Nose head-to-head. If at any point Agent Frog runs out of health, he must be saved by Agent Rat, Agent Argh or Agent FFF depending on the mission.
After defeating a villain, Agent Frog brings one of the villain's gadgets to agents B and B upon completion. Once all three villains have been defeated, B and B reveal themselves to be Statler and Waldorf, who wreak havoc using a machine made from the three gadget after kidnapping Piggy Galore; Agent Frog defeats Statler and Waldorf and hands them over to Agent Patriot.
Piggy Galore is revealed to have not only survived the kidnapping but has lost all memory of having gone bad; she and Agent Frog take a cruise on the spy boat toward the sunset as the credits roll.

Reception

The game received mixed to positive reviews upon release, with critics generally praising the game's variety of levels although significant criticism was lobbed at the game's short length.