In playing this game, I want it to be like this old PS2 game I used to play at my cousin’s house: it was a Looney Tunes game that had terrible direction. The game is a third person action platformer, seeing Scrat traverse levels by running, dashing, and hitting his way through beetles, mongooses, flies, and boss fights. To do this, players branch out into four zones of different biomes from a central hub area, going in a linear order. It’s a simple plot that has no greater meaning, but such is Scrat’s life. In this latest iteration of the Ice Age franchise, Scrat is after the Crystal Nuts-literally acorns made of purple crystal. There are some familiar characters, but they are more so B- or C-List supporting cast that pop up as boss fights.
The game doesn’t have anything to do with the original films, outside of Scrat’s involvement. Coming out of nowhere from developer Just Add Water and published by Blue Sky Studios, it’s the spinoff adventure focusing on Scrat, the Arctic Squirrel from Ice Age that audience’s never got enough of. Ice Age: Scrat’s Nutty Adventure is not that game, but it is nearly as fun albeit without the gore. I think the last one was X-Men Origins: Wolverine – Uncaged Edition, the best Wolverine game ever released, that saw players decapitating and dismembering enemies as Wolverine in a way that was never done before.
It’s been a while since I played a licensed game based on a film franchise.
