Nintendo Wii The Tale of Despereaux w Manual
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"The Tale of Despereaux" on Nintendo Wii is a licensed platformer published in 2008 alongside the Universal/Focus Features animated film, putting the small-but-brave mouse hero through castle environments that mirror the movie's French medieval setting. Manual included. The case is the standard white Wii sleeve, artwork intact, Despereaux front and center in his green tunic and red beret with the needle-sword raised.
2008 was a different moment for movie-licensed Wii games. The console was two years into its run and still pulling serious retail numbers on the strength of motion controls and a genuinely broad audience, kids and parents buying together, which made film tie-in titles a real commercial category rather than an afterthought. Despereaux the film came out December 2008, directed by Sam Fell and Rob Stevenhagen, based on Kate DiCamillo's 2003 Newbery Medal novel. The game shipped alongside it through Brash Entertainment, a studio that was producing licensed tie-in games at volume in the mid-to-late 2000s before closing in late 2008, making this effectively one of their final releases. That context puts the game in a compressed production window: theatrical tie-in crunch, a publisher winding down, and a console platform that rewarded family-friendly IP. It is a straightforward action-platformer, nothing ambitious mechanically, but it represents exactly the kind of licensed output the Wii library absorbed at scale during that cycle.
Brash Entertainment's three-year run produced dozens of tie-ins; this one came with the manual intact.
This copy comes with the manual, which matters for completeness graders. The white Wii case format shows wear more readily than darker shells, so check the front face for corner scuffs and the disc tray spine for any cracking at the hinge. The disc itself should be inspected for surface scratches before any gameplay test. For display, the cover art holds up: Despereaux posed heroic against the castle parapet, the color contrast clean enough to read well on a shelf. Run your thumb along the interior disc hub ring and confirm the disc seats without wobble.
OWNER VERIFY: 2008 release year and Brash Entertainment as publisher, confirmable against the back-of-case credits.
Brash Entertainment's three-year run produced dozens of tie-ins; this one came with the manual intact.
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