Also Bluey is getting a game:
I like playing shitty games when there's an uproar, and this certainly had one.
I guess parents weren't too happy that this game cost $50 iirc, and only had about "a few minutes" of gameplay. Children were either happy to have a game to play, couldn't grasp the controls (these are toddlers,) or finished the game, got bored in ten minutes and the parents wasted a good chunk of cash.
The entire game is structured as a Bluey episode (ofc, why wouldn't it be) in three parts, where Bluey is tasked with: a collectathon! You're supposed to find toys, stickers, and finish minigames to be unlocked (playable anytime) later. I got bored about two parts in, you're searching for 'map pieces' -- three of them, plainly given to you by characters in cutscenes only-- so you can progress to the end stage of finding a treasure chest. You'll meet characters that give you fun side quests that turn out to be the main quest. Nothing in this game is optional - it's pretty much on rails.
This is entirely a poorly-made cashgrab, for obvious reasons. Sure, the studio tried their best, probably with very little time to get something out the door; but you can hear the quality dip as soon as you load in. The character rigs are poorly animated (why not use stock animations you already have?) along with cutscenes being...terrible, compared to how the show looks; voice lines are wildly different in tone or volume - most likely ripped or reused/retooled (and sometimes inappropriate for whatever the player is doing), and it doesn't sound like any of the voice actors are trying. It sounds like they were given a video game script from the 80s with zero context and told, 'Go. Voice this. One take only'.
Here's a longplay I pulled at random to show what I mean:
It's awful.
but the kids will get an hour and a half of 'game' out of it, granted, if they're over the age of 5.
