Adventure Time: Hey Ice King Why'd You Steal Our Garbage or Adventure Time: HIKWYSOG, is another one of those games that is meant only for the fans of the original source material. This being the case I may as well let you know I am a huge Adventure Time fan and I am a huge video game fan and that is why I bought the game. If you are not a fan of both of these things I highly suggest that you do not buy this game. I personally regret paying full price for this game. It is not as though it was bad, it is just that it was severely lacking.
All the charm, comedy, and fantasy of the show is very clearly represented in Hey Ice King. This would probably be present even more so if the game was fully voice acted which I only forgive because I have never seen game dialogue that was funnier than that in this game and I would expect no less from the writers of Adventure Time.
Hey Ice King is very much styled like Zelda 2 as the creator of Adventure Time is a big fan of Zelda just as every person on this planet should be. This being said, this game feels more like a very incomplete alpha version of a Zelda game rather than a finished video game. I could very easily see this game being an experiment before they release a true more dense Adventure Time video game.
The combat is solid but it is in no way varied. You have 3 or 4 different attacks that you can use but they all basically do the same thing so it doesn't really matter of you choose to swing Finn's sword or make Jake punch. The only real way that combat gets varied is through the item system. Finn and Jake pickup tons of different items throughout the game. They are mostly food items that are used for regaining health but some of them are different spells that they have used in the show that beef up speed or attack power. This is a very interesting and a sometimes fun take on combat and I do understand that being a game based on a children's show you cannot expect things to get too complicated but I really had much more faith that the combat would be better than this.
What upsets me most about this game is its length and overall lack of content. It felt as though the game was completely over almost before it started and while I really enjoyed the story and the simple fact that I was walking around OOO as Finn and Jake fighting off monsters, I kind of felt empty inside when I was done, it just was not enough. The question is, should you play Hey Ice King? I would have to say yes any fan of the show should definitely play this game however I do not believe that anyone should pay full price for it.
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