7/10

This game is a rarety in modern times, what do you mean the one game that won GOTY 2021 is a co-op stylized adventure that tells a very good and competent story about a couple reigniting their love for each other?

Now i do feel that the first 3 to 4 hours of the game drag a little bit until it actualy starts advancing the story foward, and that the game is so scripted in what the players must do that exists zero creativity in how to pass each puzzle, but this are some minor issues that aren't even issues, the game exceeds in it's proposal and was very fun from beggining to end.

It's really hard to rate this game. I wish I could say I loved it, but I don't.

Don't get me wrong, I think the gameplay here is really solid. Playing with my girlfriend to complete puzzles, compete, and just have fun together is really great. The problem is not the gameplay.

The story, however, is shockingly poor. The writing feels lazy and actively annoying. The characters are unlikeable, their conflict frustrating, and their dialogue cringeworthy. They act less like parents with reasonable conflicting perspectives and more like spoiled children. This makes progression somewhat bittersweet since the gameplay always stays fresh while the actual plot progression feels forced, messy, and annoying. I get the story isn't the point here, but it's constantly inserting itself, so it's really hard to ignore

Finished this a few weeks ago. Visually stunning. Lots to do and many fun different gimmicks and game-modes.

Online play had bugs here and there but I blame EA not the devs. The gameplay itself was not very innovative. It was extremely easy at times. The main two characters were a bit unlikeable to me. Rose was sort of interesting at first but the story just dragged on without developing her or revealing anything. I would've preferred if they explored her a little in the beginning and she was left a total mystery. The ending felt,,,, very awkward and anticlimactic. Honestly the entire story felt like it was lacking in direction and not in a good "spontaneous Odyssey journey" way but more like a "things keep randomly happening but the story hasn't advanced at all" way. It reminded me of the first Avatar movie which was full of stunning scenes (the whale, the musical(?) world, the skiing town, etc.) that didn't amount to a cohesive aesthetic or story. I also didn't think the character arcs or development made much sense and many of their conflicts with one another felt contrived. The book of love's character.... was okay. I wasn't gagging the way the millennials were but at least he kind of had charisma. It felt less like he was guiding them to profound self-realizations and more like he was assigning random cruel Herculean tasks to the two and then beating them over the head with some dull platitude as a message. Actually, overall the game has the tone of Buzzfeed/Jackbox/Corporate-bonding-event but if you don't mind that sort of vibe then you might not find the game so bad at all.

It feels a bit bad to rate it so low because the game brought me many fun hours. But as a narrative and as a work of art (and even just as a video game) I thought it was pretty subpar.

I recommend this game if you and your partner want to play a video game together and have no better choices.

One of a kind co-op game, an incredible experience. Just pure creativity all around, blows any other co-op adventure out of the water. Not only it's a masterpiece of co-op, it's also a mixture of every classic 3D platformer, with amazing level design and SO MUCH variety in gameplay. A work of art in pure creative gameplay, so much fun all the way through.

The story is simple, lighthearted and straight to the point, but it servers the gameplay and levels very well. The characters are fun and endearing, voice acting is great and the doll's designs are really good too. The humans look and feel a bit weird but that's also 5% of the game to be honest.

All around, definitely one of the best games of the year, and the best co-op ever.

played probably 70% of this with my gf but we didn't end up finishing it.

looks great and most of the puzzle solving and whatever is a lot of fun, but still has frustrating moments.

the characters are well written, but their bickering can be pretty grating and that's really all you get for most of the game. I get that both of them are supposed to be unpleasant and in the wrong in their own ways, but I think its a bit more storytelling than a cute puzzle platformer can handle. watching them kill that elephant really pulls you out of the game

My impressions of what this game would be and what it is were so far off lol.

Despite the game getting GOTY in 2021, I thought it just won because there weren't really any good releases in 2021 (which is still true) so I just thought this game was just a generic "quirky!" game but I was so off.

This game really took what A Way Out did and just improves on it in practically every single way with a much more engaging and emotional story, incredible and super unique level design that changes dramatically in every area of the game and naturally blends together so well.

The game also just has incredible pacing too, almost every area in the game never really overstays it's welcome and always provides different unique mechanics that always make the game feel fresh.

This may seem obvious but this game really does force you to work hard with your partner and you genuinely feel like in real life you develop more synergy with them as well as how Cody and May do within the story.

I haven't ever really played anything like this before. Again, the closest thing is A Way Out and even if I still liked that game, this game is WAY better.