I finished it yesterday together with my sister and we enjoyed it quite a lot.

The story is about Cody and May, a married couple whose relationship has broken apart. They want a divorce but their daughter Rose isn't so happy about the news. Fortunately, she found the "Book of Love" beforehand and she makes a wish to it hoping that her parents would settle their differences. And it seems that this Book of Love is listening because it transfers Cody's and May's mind into puppets which were made by Rose and it introduces itself to them as relationship therapist Dr. Hakim. Dr. Hakim sends the two on a journey through their home on which they have to work together to get their bodys back.

Overall, the story was quite alright. It was charming but both my sister and I think that the story was a bit underdeveloped. In our opinion, it didn't deal enough with the problems in Cody's and May's relationship and some parts solved themselves too easily. However, I think that at least to some degree the developers chose to handle things like that because it would have been hard to design compelling gameplay around those topics. So instead of having sections which are just not fun to play, they left it out to create an overall better game. Nevertheless, we enjoyed the story with its bizarre but entertaining characters.

In terms of gameplay, there is nothing to complain about. It Takes Two is a coop game so you always need two players to play it. You can either do that locally on one device or through the internet. One player takes control of Cody, the other one plays May. During gameplay, the screen is splitted vertically and you can see the characters on their respective half. It Takes Two is more or less a typical action adventure with puzzle elements. You jump, climb and swing through levels while solving different kinds of puzzles. Those puzzles are the best part of the game because you need collaboration and cooperation to solve them. For example, some puzzles require precise timing so both players need to come up with a system to get it done correctly. On other occassions, you need to arrange certain moves in a specific order to get to the end of a puzzle. Generally, it worked out pretty well and my sister and I had some pretty fun moments even when things didn't work out as we expected at first.

Furthermore, the game offers a lot of variety. Pretty much every Level offers a new, specific item for Cody and May, which differ quite a lot from each other but you can combine their effects for differents usages. You can find a good example for that in level two. In that level, Cody receives a resin gun which... well... fires resin kinda like a Gatling Gun. That resin sticks to enemies and different surfaces alike but apart from adding weight, it doesn't do much. That changes however if you add May to the fray. In that level, she receives a sniper rifle which shoots matchsticks and those can inflame Cody's resin. So consequently, the level is filled with puzzles in which Cody has to spray enemies and objects with resin while May has to shoot them with her rifle in order to defeat enemies or start a mechanism. There are lots of other gameplay implementations like that one in It Takes Two making it quite fun to go through the game.

The technical side however isn't the game's greatest strength. Maybe it's because we played the Switch version but at least on that console, it is not the best-looking game out there. I noticed frame drops and reloading textures quite frequently. The art style is pretty nice though and the voice acting was done quite well too. Nevertheless, I didn't like the fact that the game splits the screen vertically. Because of that, you can't see what is happening around you leading to confusion or disorientation. In some cases, you don't even realise that you are under attack by an enemy because you can't see him coming.

In conclusion, It Takes Two is a pretty fun coop game. The story is solid and the gameplay is superb. Furthermore, the latter is not too complicated making the game very beginner friendly which was quite helpful for my sister who doesn't play video games that often. Because of that, It Takes Two is a good game to introduce new players to video games. It is also leveling the playing field bringing players of different skill levels on the same page. You could say that this game unites people and that is probably the greatest strength of It Takes Two.