I'm the food critic from Ratatouille when I play this, transported to my childhood where I was playing mediocre movie licensed 3D platformer games on my PS2 like Creature From the Krusty Krab or Chicken Little. Because of this, I ended up enjoying this uninspired cash grab from start to finish even as the game glitched out and sent me into The Void multiple times for standing on a rock wrong.
Scrat's Nutty Adventure feels like a temporally displaced PS2 game in every fabric and stitch of its design, right down to the game using the character from Ice Age that can't really speak so that they save on time writing story dialogue. The camera? Bad! The platforming? Stiff yet finicky! The music? Short and generic orchestral flourishes that turn into 20 minutes of mind-numbing silence. The little gems that are all over the place? Rendered useless halfway through the game! (but unlocks a concept art gallery and by god, I love that Scrat's Nutty Adventure has a concept art gallery) The combat? Button-mashing so that you make enough combos to kill the same bug enemies over and over!
And yet I can't bring myself to hate this game. I have absolutely zero ill will for Scrat and his very limited pool of yells and grunts. Instead I have fun playing what I know is poorly designed, simply because it presses all the right nostalgic buttons in my brain in ways that certain Kickstarter'd indie games have only dreamed of hitting. I don't think this game is good but I respect it, in a world where most movie tie-in games nowadays are lazy Match-3 mobile games that beg for your credit card information.
...it probably helps that I didn't actually spend any money on this game and it came free with my PS Plus subscription, so all praise for this game comes with a little asterisk that says "Note: Probably don't pay more than 10 dollars for this game".
Scrat's Nutty Adventure! It's a PS2 game where, if you play on PS5, some of the ice textures look real nice, and at the end of the game, you get a hot alien gf with a thigh gap. Also one of the trophy images references the late 00's philosoraptor meme and the Ice Age Baby is a collectible.
Scrat's Nutty Adventure feels like a temporally displaced PS2 game in every fabric and stitch of its design, right down to the game using the character from Ice Age that can't really speak so that they save on time writing story dialogue. The camera? Bad! The platforming? Stiff yet finicky! The music? Short and generic orchestral flourishes that turn into 20 minutes of mind-numbing silence. The little gems that are all over the place? Rendered useless halfway through the game! (but unlocks a concept art gallery and by god, I love that Scrat's Nutty Adventure has a concept art gallery) The combat? Button-mashing so that you make enough combos to kill the same bug enemies over and over!
And yet I can't bring myself to hate this game. I have absolutely zero ill will for Scrat and his very limited pool of yells and grunts. Instead I have fun playing what I know is poorly designed, simply because it presses all the right nostalgic buttons in my brain in ways that certain Kickstarter'd indie games have only dreamed of hitting. I don't think this game is good but I respect it, in a world where most movie tie-in games nowadays are lazy Match-3 mobile games that beg for your credit card information.
...it probably helps that I didn't actually spend any money on this game and it came free with my PS Plus subscription, so all praise for this game comes with a little asterisk that says "Note: Probably don't pay more than 10 dollars for this game".
Scrat's Nutty Adventure! It's a PS2 game where, if you play on PS5, some of the ice textures look real nice, and at the end of the game, you get a hot alien gf with a thigh gap. Also one of the trophy images references the late 00's philosoraptor meme and the Ice Age Baby is a collectible.