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Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd you Steal our Garbage?!! (DS)

Status: Stopped playing - Got Bored
I started playing this game on Tuesday 13 July, 2021  //  I stopped playing this game on: Saturday 24 July, 2021
Current opinion of this game
No comment, yet.

July 24, 2021 10:59:01 PM
I finished the next area - rescuing/obtaining Princess' socks(?) and uh...it's following a predictable formula, and I'm not that interested. I've now unlocked a new ability for the yellow-dog-dude whose name I forget - but still... I can't really criticize the game too much, well maybe the backtracking is a bit annoying...but I just don't think I'm the target audience - fans of the show probably got a lot more fun out of the experience than I will....

July 19, 2021 01:20:05 AM
I've only seen parts of episodes of Adventure Time at best - so I'm not familiar with the characters, world, story, or anything other than what they look like. So, I think it's fair to say that this is a really weird setting. The characters seem to talk in a kind of slang I assume is from the show.

The entire plot of the game (so far) is that, as the game's title indicates, the Ice King has stolen our garbage and we're out to get it back(?) and kick his butt as revenge. He made some sort of doll/statue from the garbage but apparently the revenge is more important because (by now), if I'm making sense of the story, I'm in a new area (candy land?) for reasons I'm not entirely sure about - but I think I left the garbage doll behind. Or maybe I'm on another quest to help some sort of Pink Princess? Anyways, I'm pretty confused - but not enough that I can't figure out where to go.

The game alternates between a top-worldview navigation and side-scrolling platform levels. Most are quite simple but at least one level has been more complicated mostly because it had more screens and I needed to land on things appropriately to not die. Not really a challenge, just longer than everything I'd seen earlier. Combat is also pretty straightforward - press a button to attack and, depending on the button, I'll attack and do a certain number of points of damage and the enemy dies or not depending on how many hits in can take.

Weirdly the game also has some RPG elements, since you can upgrade your three core stats to get extra health, do more damage, and I forget the 3rd one at the moment.

Occasionally monsters will drop items and I think most of them are for healing. You can combine some for greater effect - like pouring syrup on pancakes or ketchup on hotdogs. They're food items. There are other things but since they drop much more rarely I've been quite shy about trying them out... I might just splurge at some point if I think I might not bother finishing the game just to see what they do. I think at least one makes me invisible to overworld monsters?

For now I'm intrigued enough to see where the game goes, but not that excited either...

 
kudos for original design to Rodrigo Barria