The Adventure Pals
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Platform
Released: April 2018. Added to this library 2 weeks ago, last updated 10 days ago.
Overview
The Adventure Pals is a running, jumping and fighting game where you play duo Sparkles the giraffe and Mr. Rock. By making jumps, exploring levels and defeating enemies you try and stop Mr.B from capturing the elderly, including your dad, and turning them into hotdogs. It’s silly fun, but really well animated and great fun for two players working together.
The humour works for kids with slapstick laughs like your giraffe pal using his tongue to fly, but it also has loads of great tongue in cheek jokes for adults too. Like Sesame Street, different ages play it for different reasons and enjoy it all the more for playing it together.
Your primary weapon is a sword that you can level up with new abilities, or swap for other weapons. Sparkles is able to use his tongue to catch onto things, fly and slow your fall, reach to platforms, swim, and help battle enemies.
The game includes five worlds all with unique quests, characters, boss fights and battle arenas. It’s novel because of the Adventure Time animation style and well realised funny characters. The partnership of characters work together in various ways that encourage players to solve challenges in imaginative ways.
Tip
This game is good if you want to have silly fun together or work in a team to win.
Commitment
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online. With a second controller you add another player for shared screen co-operative local-play. The second player has the same abilities although is an alternative character.
Costs
Ratings
ESRB EVERYONE 10+ with Crude Humour, Fantasy Violence.
Accessibility
System settings: Nintendo Switch has some built-in features, including a lockable zoom, that can be used on all games.
Windows has extensive accessibility features. Some, like colour correction, work with games. Lots of accessibility software can be used with PC games, from voice recognition to input device emulators. PlayStation 4 has a range of accessibility settings. Some are system only, some work in games (invert colours and button mapping). Xbox One has a wide range of system features including some that can be used on all games, like the excellent co-pilot mode... read more.
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