Hey kid, ever heard of Fraggle rock?
I won't go too far in the story, never seen the movie, neither heard of the Wild Things before. For a 33 old guy like me, those Wild Things remember me the old Gorgs in Fraggle Rock. Nostalgia maybe.
However, those 'Things' live on an island, and a kid fall there and became their king. In order to save them from an upcoming disaster, you go through various mission and finally try to reach the...Whatever, you'll see by yourself.
So you have this kid, Max. He wear a strange pijama with a tail, like to wear a crown and...doesn't like to talk too much, maybe a woo-hoo once in a while. And, that pretty much it, I haven't been able to listen to the story, everythings seems slow and painful to my eyes.
So the game:
Graphics are nice, probably better than what you can expect for that type of games. Sounds are good also, still I don't know why Max doesn't talk at all.
You do every mission with 2 things in mind. first: Finish it. Truly, after 5 minutes, you want it to end. Second: get as many collectible items in the level to help the Things in the village build their stuff.
It's a 3D platformer action game, so you 'scroll' to the level until the end. This with sufficient save point to make it easy to complete without pain. The pain is the time it takes, because you need to look everywhere to find the lost items. You always stop to bash everything around.
First time ok, but after it's complete, you'll probably end up missing items and then need to go back to find them. (Unless you don't care about trophies).
there's not enough differents enemies. Bees, shadow stuffs ('goos'). It's always the same fighting method, you block, you hit, or you just hit. The last method works until the last 2 levels, after, you need to learn to block. At least on hard level. because, if you're more than 7 yo, please set the difficulty to hard, nothing else. I consider the hard level as an easy level even for a casual gamer. And, if you make it to the end, you'll win 3 trophies at once (Beginner, normal and hard completion trophy...).
Let's resume this in an adult perspective:
Plain game, no wow, no yark, just no emotion from this game. There's about 5 'Things' in the whole game and you don't care about them. Max, is a dull kid. No flavor.
So you work this game for only one thing, the platinum trophy. Since there's no online mode, you can easily complete the platinum in around, let's say if you start well the game, means you look everywhere in every mission once, 10-15 hours.
Maybe kids would like it, but I doubt. Nothing there has light my little boy flame. If there was one, it goes out.
Maybe if I've seen the movie I could relate to them, but I don't want too.
Be very careful, your kids could hate you if you buy them that game for any reason.
Show them an old Fraggle Rock episode instead. Nostalgia...