Probably the best licensed game I’ve played. I was surprised at how good it ended up being since most games like this usually suck.

The pixel art was all pretty good and well done. It was also fun to be able to tell where in the show’s timeline this game would fit based on character interactions.

Most of the game was pretty tedious, with most levels just being 1 quick room to get to somewhere else on the map. The bosses were where all of the challenge in the game was found, and I use the word “challenge” lightly. Pretty simple little game that could be completed in one day

Based on the hit Cartoon Network show, with a story by the show's creator, Pendleton Ward (no Ice King backstory though). While similar to Zelda II, it also borrows things from other games and stat-ups are done via found items vs grinding. Fun for fans and has a great soundtrack, but unlike the 3DS version, there's songs missing (boo). There are also sexy cloud people. Also, there's a collector's edition with an Enchiridion, so you can go to another dimension for a 3 part what if episode that resolved nothing in the over-arching series plot.

Cool adventure time game heavily inspired by Zelda 2. It's got cool music, albeit heavily HEAVILY compressed, even for DS standards (and seemingly, with no way to hear it uncompressed anywhere else. Bit of a shame)
The humor is very early AT, and while quirky, funny and memorable at times, it does get a bit old by the end, and it doesn't help how the whole cast treats IK. Seriously tho, Marceline does him so badly in here. Either she's trying very hard to dissociate from him and failing misserably or this is straight up not canon (Which I highly consider after some of her texts)
It's a short game, which makes it perfect for that one afternoon where you don't really know what to do and want to do a one off thing.
Despite all it's flaws and not being canon, it's still a fun game for what it is. Plus, that simphony of the night reference was pretty neat

I remember when this game came out. It was the first proper Adventure Time video game, and I was in a HUGE anticipation for it to be released.
Back then I was in high school, and Adventure Time was a big thing to me and my friends. We even went to the point of vandalising the school with marker drawings of Gunter everywhere. Yeah, good times.

Well, I got it on my DS as soon as it released and, to my surprise… it took me only a single day to beat it.

OK, the game was fine, but the short length of the adventure left a sour taste in my mouth.
But, well, I found myself thinking about the game this afternoon, and decided to give it a try on my 3DS. Unsurprisingly, it took less than five hours for a 11-years-older me (damn, is it that long already?) to fully complete the game in a single sitting.

Alright, it’s a game made for kids, so you can kind of expect it to be easy. The music is fine, but super repetitive and with a flair of chiptune every now and then, with some very muffled voiced recordings. There’s a huge amount of backtracking going on as well, and it’s mostly the boring type of backtrack. Also, the game’s story, despite being fine for an Adventure Time episode, was nothing to write home about.

… however, yeah, it’s a charming and fun little game.
The plot and characters are reminiscent of the earlier seasons of the show, which were my favourites, and it is undoubtedly fun to travel through Ooo and chat with its denizens.
All of that in a Zelda II-inspired setting and gameplay. Of all the Zelda-like formulas they could have come up with, they went for that one; and they made it fun and interesting, with a progression that, easy as it is, doesn’t hold the player’s hand and makes it so that they match the puzzle pieces by themselves.

And, well, it’s WayForward we’re talking about here, so you can expect at least a tad bit of polish.
The game has super tight controls and some very nicely done pixel art visuals that look great even on a 3DS XL screen.
Also, the game looks better on the 3DS than on the DS, with additional details on the foregrounds and the backgrounds.

All in all, despite being far from a blockbuster, it was a great first game for the franchise. They executed some nice and fun ideas very well, and condensed all of it in a bite-sized adventure that, despite being super easy, was fun enough at the end.

I ended up enjoying it as much as I originally did eleven years ago. But, there really isn’t any reason for me to replay it in the future.
Except for nostalgia reasons, maybe. Waiting for this game to be released back then was part of the experience itself, and I’d still love to get the collector’s edition that came with a stylus shaped as Finn’s sword.

It’s pretty solid, hell, might even say a great game.

It fairly short, but I think that’s perfectly fine since the game didn’t overstay it’s welcome. And despite it’s short length, the game surprisingly has some meaty content. The animations are really smooth and the soundtrack is really good, stand out being “Party in the Clouds”. The plot is fairly nonsensical and didn’t make much sense but was still very charming to experience.

My major gripe with this game though is random encounters. In my opinion, this addition felt completely unnecessary and could have easily have not been in the game. It annoyed me for the entire game, since they don’t instantly spawn in once you get into the overworld and sometime spawns just happens in the most inconvenient and stupidest of places. And the items they give you are worthless since you get a TON of items during your playthrough.

Other than that, this is a pretty solid, borderline amazing game. Even if I haven’t watched much of the show - i feel like i committed a sin… :/ - this was a delightfully charming game that perfectly captures the whimsical and weird nature of Adventure Time. For most of my playthrough, I was having so much fun. If you’re a fan of the show and you haven’t tried this game, DEFINITELY recommend you do so. And even if you haven’t really watched the show, you should give this game a shot if you like fun and tightly designed action platformers. Thanks for reading! ( ^ω^ )

Es una buena aventura que toma mucha inspiración de The Legend of Zelda 2, en cuanto a niveles de desplazamiento lateral conectados por un mapamundi y elementos RPG. Aprovecha al máximo el lore que creó Hora de Aventura en aquel entonces, la aventura básicamente es como ver un especial de la serie, cosa que se refleja incluso en la creatividad de los diálogos, que te puede traer de regreso a cuando veías esta serie en tu infancia, en un tiempo cuando era más simple e inocente, en sus meros inicios. El gameplay dentro de sus bases es básico pero no por descarte menos divertido, es una experiencia que te puede llevar 4 a 5 horitas, el OST es buenísimo al igual que el pixelart y tiene buenos jefes y dificultad

The game is "ok". It has good music, it's very colorful, and the humor of the series is present. The story feels like a random episode of "Adventure Time," and the gameplay is like "ZELDA 2" but with the ability to craft things.

One thing that did bother me a bit about the game was the backtracking. Having to repeat the same mini-levels every time you go back for something can make you go "Ahhhhh, what a hassle." However, this doesn't amount to much since the game is extremely short; you can finish it in a single afternoon.

I kinda wonder how much of the fun I had with this game came from actual enjoyment of the game itself and not because of the insane amount of nostalgia I have for this game.

As license games of the era of late 2000s early 2010’s go it’s probably one of the better entries. It does nothing really spectacular, it’s pretty much just Zelda 2 but with much better control, maybe too much backtracking at times and a Adventure Time spin. The game is probably way too easy but I remember the game killing me a lot when I played it as a dumb baby so maybe it’s just easy enough for kids and too easy for adults. The best aspect this game has going for it however is how well the game translates the early seasons of Adventure Time into game form. The game still has that weird barely logical humor the show was known for at the time while also having all the writing feels very snappy and funny even for a depressed adult like myself.
Even if you didn’t grow up with Adventure Time like I did I still think you’d get a pretty fun Zelda-like adventure game out of it even though the game is only 6 hours long. I had a great time going back down memory lane replaying this, I still have have super fond memories of playing this game on my old aqua blue 3DS and not understanding what I had to do or where to go, the good old days when the only video games I played were Nicktoons Globs of Doom and Shrek the Third the video game. It’s kinda nice to know that not all the garbage licensed crap I played as a kid was terrible.

This game is actually not available to play in Europe, legally.
In the US, this game was released physically on both DS and 3DS, but in Europe it only got a digital release on 3DS, and we all know what happened there.

Luckily I have a flash cart, so I got to play the DS version and it's pretty good.
A fun platformer that i could've seen myself playing as a kid, but I'm not into the backtracking especially as the dungeons aren't mapped out, so you can't really see where you're going and what you're doing (although I'm pretty sure this format was improved on in a later game I'll get to).
You walk pretty slow, too, which I'm not into either.

From what I played of this, however, I still enjoyed it and would probably play more of it at some point.