Chris leans toward painstakingly difficult role-playing games where losing - a lot - is inevitable. We both came to “It Takes Two” with different video game preferences: I prefer light challenges and story-driven games that ask big questions.
But we spent pretty much an entire Sunday with the game, which came out this week for PlayStation and Xbox consoles as well as PCs. My colleague Chris Price and I have yet to finish “It Takes Two,” the latest from welcomingly outspoken game developer Josef Fares (“Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons,” “A Way Out”). But it also adds an edge of competitiveness to what is otherwise a cooperative game as it aims to lighten the tension of a bickering couple with outlandish scenes and characters (an angry vacuum, a scientifically advanced squirrel community). It immediately gives players roles and assigns them characters with a history. There’s an underlying message behind each level, namely the little things they overlooked but the game is also hiding some bite, both in its themes and in its challenges.Īs a character-focused two-player game, the Hazelight Studios title makes a strong effort to match gameplay with personality. Here, a young girl’s imagination and desire for her parents to stay together transform mom and pop into clay-like toys, forcing them to explore their home and their yard “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids”-style. “It Takes Two” wants to bring us together by raising questions on how we fall apart. It’s also arriving after a year of pandemic social distancing, in a moment in which we’ve learned that games can connect us. Even when “It Takes Two” inspires a raised eyebrow, it does so with a divorce-themed story that’s rare for slick, run-and-jump-driven puzzle games. But that’s largely because this is a pop-culture arena where such topics have yet to be regularly explored.
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Give this to “It Takes Two”: It shows that potential movie and TV clichés - say, a couple that’s a soon-to-be ex-couple working together - translate surprisingly well to video games.
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