Jumanji: Wild Adventures

Jumanji is your typical action adventure that is very suitable to play in co-op. There are 7 worlds, a couple of bosses, 4 characters to pick from and some upgrades for them. You can collect Jumanji letters, reach the target score and have one unique challenge in each level. You travel to the next world with a car and you can use fast travel once you reach the regions for the first time. There are checkpoints within a level, they allow you to quit the game and continue later. Those checkpoints are a nice surprise, it’s not something you see often and it’s appreciated. The game can look very colourful and pretty sometimes, especially the water effects. The banter between the characters can be funny, this adds a bit of personality to the game. The voice actors did an excellent job. I enjoyed the levels and the challenges. It really feels like the game punches above its weight at points, there is clearly some passion behind the game. That said, the game has a few bugs, rough combat and too many questionable design decisions. With the combat, while the character movement feels good, the hit detection and stun time (once hit) get in the way of making the combat feel satisfying. It’s …

You can play as the guy from Black Adam

Jumanji: Wild Adventures is a handheld/Switch game (the order in which it came out on which platform is irrelevant), Switch games are made to run on that low end childrens portable gaming appliance, that means they traded high end visuals for the ability to run on Switch over making a pure PC game. This is more licensed garbage from Outright Games... the game publisher with one single mission. That mission? To take beloved media franchises and crap on them from a great height. They're directly ruined any hopes of getting decent games in franchises like Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ben 10, Dreamworks Dragons... the list of damage and destruction feels endless. How do they accomplish this? Well, Outright is essentially a small business run by accountants. They have money, and they burn it gleefully. They spend a LOT of cash buying a licensed property, then they churn out a minimum effort pile of dung designed for mobile phones and Nintendo Switch, put an outright offensive AAA price tag on their minimum viable product mobile app/handheld garbage, and then wonder why nobody gives them money. Jumanji: Wild Adventures is a fine example of this... it's garbage. …

It's pretty fun as a co-op. Graphics are decent plays well on the steam deck. It's fun playing with the different characters and their weapons. I have only played co-opso far. 1 gripe is that the camera will follow P1 so if playing local co-op if you get to far from your partner it'll port P2 to location of P1 on the screen, even if they are not in a great location. If you're playing local co-op make sure your better platformer player is P1 or this can get frustrating quick.

Okay game

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