Adventure Time: Finn and Jake Investigations
Adventure Time: Finn & Jake Investigations is an upcoming action adventure video game developed by Vicious Cycle Software under license from Cartoon Network Interactive. This is the fourth game based on the animated television series Adventure Time following The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom, and the first action adventure title in the series presented in full 3D graphics. In this game, players can check out "Land of Ooo locales, talk to characters, sharpen their creative puzzle-solving skills, defeat bad guys and just have fun." Loosely based on the TV show's sixth season, the game features "a focus on exploring, investigating, and puzzle-solving. Thanks to the discovery of an assignment printing machine called the 'tickertype,' Finn and Jake decide to become detectives like Joshua and Margaret (Finn and Jake's parents). Finn's sword will see a bit of action too, allowing players to fill the Tree House treasure room full of enemy drops.
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Upon finishing the series yesterday I found out how much of a grind playing through and 100%-ing "Explore the Dungeon..." would be, so I've now relegated it to the position of "Background Noise" game, a game I'll only play to keep my hands busy while I listen to music for other review sites (which also features "Tetris Effect", "Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit", and "Sonic Spinball").
2015's "Finn and Jake Investigations" is I believe the first 3D entry in the game series and to be completely honest it might have been better if it was 2D since it's essentially a point-and-click adventure game.
The game features five "episodes", each with three levels, and I imagine it would be quite fun if you did the thinking.
Unfortunately, though, getting the 100% here may require you to look for a guide as if you miss even one collectible you'll have to replay the entire game up to the point you missed.
If you want to go through the game blind and have fun with it, but you also want to get the 100, you'll most likely have to play through the game a second time with a guide or something.
This game would really benefit from an episode select menu.
The combat is okay, although I never really understood it (there's no "health" bar other than the boys getting bruises, and they mention loot which I don't think exists), the swords you earn don't really do much and I don't even know if you can swap them around.
This would definitely be fun if tinkered with just a little.
Maybe I just needed a guide that actually gave me some freedom...