Shrek and they lived happily ever after

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Shrek and they lived happily is a action – Platform in a classic style, with a intuitive control system and a plot that follows in all respects the events of the film. In fact, Shrek, after having been duped by Rumple with a signature on a bogus contract, finds himself catapulted into a parallel world where the most famous ogre in the world was never born, and therefore he never met his friends and adored her. Fiona.
We will take the reins of the protagonist at this point, or in his first steps through the surreal adventure. Immediately a feature in favor that will immediately make young and old smile: you can control all four of Shrek's main characters: Shrek, Donkey, Puss in Boots (fat version… oh yess) and Fiona. You can change characters at any time of the adventure by simply pressing the arrow keys! In fact, each play area is designed to be played with a different character based on his abilities. In fact, Shrek can move heavy weights, Fiona can make barrels explode with fire, Chiuchino can knock down doors with a kick and the cat can climb where others cannot reach! The great variety of skills present in each character therefore inevitably lead to the creation of many puzzle sections where you have to combine the skills of the different characters to reach chests and safes. Just the extreme variety of chests and objects to collect characterize a large part of the exploratory phase of the game.
Finally: characters have lives of their own, meaning if you lose half health while playing with Shrek, Cchanging character you will still find your character bar full!

As regards instead the combat phases, it will always be enough to press the X key to make most of the moves, which unfortunately are 4 in the cross for each character. Once defeated, the enemies will release a little piece of heart that will restore some of the lost health. On the other hand, the special ability of each character is more interesting, which will make you more than a laugh: Shrek can scream and make the enemies stop terrified, Fiona can sing to make the frogs' heads swell (and not only!), Donkey will start singing his usual song at very high volume while the cat will unleash its best weapon: the look! These goodies, more than the rather well-kept dialogues and the scatches worthy of the best Orc movie, make this game absolutely enjoyable even for the older ones. In fact, the game phases themselves turn out to be quite repetitive and very devoted to platforming - patient so if you don't bother after 1 hour of looking for treasures this game is for you.

TECHNIQUE AND COMPANIES PLAY

La graphics of the game is quite fluctuating: if the Cut Scenes of the game are really enjoyable and worthy of the best cartoon of the saga, the graphics of the game are not as convincing. Colors too bright without particularly defined outlines, some spixelata here and there. Not fully sufficient. The audio on the other hand is fantastic, game completely voiced in español with the original voices of the film and hilarious soundtrack.

Another great possibility that the Shrek game and they lived happily ever after offers is the local multiplayer game. In fact, not only you can command all four characters, but also with the use of other joysticks it is possible to face the campaign in cooperative mode for up to 4 players by choosing the character we like best. The great thing is that this mode has been thought out really well, as there is no annoying split screen but you can move inside the screen at the same time!

In conclusion, Shrek is a game definitely suitable for children and to those who they love the brand, since they will not fail several hours of fun. Otherwise, if you've never seen a movie or you've seen one and didn't like it, why should you buy the game?

Final grade: 7.5 / 10