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** When May [[spoiler: takes on the squirrel chief as she and Cody attempt to make a getaway using the squirrels' airplane]], the gameplay shifts to a beat-em-up format strongly resembling ''Videogame/StreetFighter'' and/or ''Videogame/MortalKombat'', right down to having health bars with names and thumbnails, moves such as a [[KamehameHadoken Hadouken attack]], and its own take on fatalities.
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Cody and May theorize that if they make Rose cry on their doll forms again, they can reverse the 'spell'. The trope comes into play when (through Moon Baboon's surveillance system) they see first-hand that their daughter has been anxious for a while. Instead of recognizing this anomaly correlates with their fighting and announcing their divorce, Cody brushes off, wholly believing their daughter is a happy child. It goes as far as Cody and May having a sudden realization that "they can affect the world around Rose", but completely fail to realize the implications. [[spoiler: It comes to a head when they go through with breaking Rose's favorite toy Cutie, truly believing that making Rose cry will make things normal again.]]
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Cody and May theorize that if they make Rose cry on their doll forms again, they can reverse the 'spell'. The trope comes into play when (through Moon Baboon's surveillance system) they see first-hand that their daughter has been anxious for a while. Instead of recognizing this anomaly correlates with their fighting and announcing their divorce, Cody brushes off, wholly believing their daughter is a happy child. [[spoiler: It comes to a head when they go through with breaking Rose's favorite toy Cutie, truly believing that turning back to making Rose cry will make things normal should take precedence over their daughter's happiness.again.]]
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Cody and May must have some level of ego when they decide changing back to their regular selves (namely making her cry by [[spoiler: destroying her beloved toy elephant]]) should take precedence over their daughter's personal happiness.
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* EyeScream: Cody and May destroy the vacuum cleaner by forcing it to suck out its own eyes.
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** In the workshop level, May uses a hammerhead to smash things while Cody uses a nail like an improvised javelin.
** When the characters get powers from the costumes in the MagicCastle. Castle, Cody becomes an ice magician, while May gets a FlamingSword knight costume.
** In the workshop level, May uses a hammerhead to smash things while Cody uses a nail like an improvised javelin.
** When the characters get powers from the costumes in the Magic
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** May and Cody often get tools and/or abilities that reflect how they are opposites, such as May getting a hammer and Cody a nail, or May becoming a fire knight while Cody becomes an ice wizard. Inside their family cuckoo clock, Dr. Hakim applies this the two in order to help them fix their relationship. He bestows Rose the ability to clone herself so she can be in two places at once, and gifts Cody the ability to control time so he has a better sense of time.
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** May and Cody often get tools and/or abilities that reflect how they are opposites, such as May getting a hammer and Cody a nail, or May becoming a fire knight while Cody becomes an ice wizard. Inside their family cuckoo clock, Dr. Hakim applies this the two in order to help them fix their relationship. He bestows Rose the ability to clone herself so she can be in two places at once, and gifts Cody the ability to control time so he has a better sense of time.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Cody and May have a tendency to lie to people to get what they want, turning back on their words and getting them hurt with their lies. Much like parents who coerce their children with promises they don't keep.
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* RuleOfSymbolism: Cody and May have a tendency to lie to people to get what they want, turning back on their words and getting them hurt with their lies. Much like parents who coerce their children with promises they don't keep. Pointedly Dr. Hakim doesn't get them back to their bodies until they put in real work fixing things in their lives.
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* RuleOfSymbolism: Everything May and Cody and May have a tendency to lie to people to get what they want, turning back on experience as dolls is highly symbolic of their words and getting them hurt with problems in the real world, like the Vacuum Tower who was a victim of their lies. Much like parents who coerce their children with promises they don't keep.neglect or the Green house that's become "infected". Pointedly Dr. Hakim doesn't get them back to their bodies until they put in real work fixing things in their lives.
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Cody and May theorize that if they make Rose cry on their doll forms again, they can reverse the 'spell'. The trope comes into play when (through Moon Baboon's surveillance system) they see first-hand that their child hasn't been happy in a while and has been extremely worried lately. Instead of recognizing this anomaly correlates with their fighting, Cody brushes off, wholly believing their daughter is a happy child. [[spoiler: It comes to a head when they go through with breaking Rose's favorite toy Cutie, truly believing that making their daughter unhappy will somehow make everything normal again.]]
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Cody and May theorize that if they make Rose cry on their doll forms again, they can reverse the 'spell'. The trope comes into play when (through Moon Baboon's surveillance system) they see first-hand that their child hasn't been happy in a while and daughter has been extremely worried lately. anxious for a while. Instead of recognizing this anomaly correlates with their fighting, fighting and announcing their divorce, Cody brushes off, wholly believing their daughter is a happy child. [[spoiler: It comes to a head when they go through with breaking Rose's favorite toy Cutie, truly believing that making their daughter unhappy will somehow make everything turning back to normal again.should take precedence over their daughter's happiness.]]
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* ToughLove: The entire game is Dr. Hakim forcing Cody and May to confront and fix their relationship as well as their deficiencies as individuals by having them literally fight the messes they've created through their negligence and bickering.
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** While exploring one of the later chapters, you can find ''an entire room'' dedicated to referencing ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' - it is small and it has a knight doll in the corner, windows to the side, and lots of pots for the players to break. They even drop green Rupees which can then be collected.
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** While exploring one of the later chapters, you can find ''an entire room'' dedicated to referencing ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' - it is small and it has a knight doll in the corner, windows to the side, and lots of pots for the players to break. They even drop green Rupees which can then be collected.
** After dropping [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever a giant baking doll with a spiked rolling pin]] into a pool of lava, [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay it strikes a thumbs-up gesture as it sinks]].
** After dropping [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever a giant baking doll with a spiked rolling pin]] into a pool of lava, [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay it strikes a thumbs-up gesture as it sinks]].
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** After the Moon Baboon tells the two that they're trapped in the pillow fort forever, Cody panicks and lets out the ''Film/{{Alien}}'' {{Tagline}}:
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* RuleOfSymbolism: Cody and May have a tendency to lie to people to get what they want, turning back on their words and getting them hurt with their lies. Much like parents who coerce their children with promises they don't keep. Pointedly Dr. Hakim doesn't get them back to their bodies until they put in real work fixing things in their lives.
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* EldritchLocation: At first it looks like May and Cody may simply travel through locations around the house but they quickly find themselves in strange worlds heavily based on significant things around their home. Worlds that would clearly not fit within the confines of said house without serious remodeling.
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''For the 1995 film, see [[Film/ItTakesTwo1995 here]].''
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''For the 1995 film, film of no relation, see [[Film/ItTakesTwo1995 here]].''
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''For the 1995 film, see [[Film/ItTakesTwo1995 here]].''
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* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Deliberately averted when the characters get powers from the costumes in the Magic Castle. Cody becomes an ice magician, while May gets a FlamingSword knight costume.
* MaleMightFemaleFinesse: May's animations have a greater degree of finesse and control then Cody's lackadaisical movements, for example May climbs up the elevators gears and kicks them downward while Cody slaps them. Justified in that May is a wooden doll with joints while Cody is a clay figure with more weight but no support.
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* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler: The squirrels ask Cody and May to destroy their enemies, the wasps, which they end up doing. How do the squirrels reward them? They turn on the main characters and go out of their way to kill them ''despite the fact the two just won the war for them'', simply because they decided to spare [[{{Turncoat}} the squirrels' agent that had sided with the wasps while posing as a fake wasp queen]] [[IJustWantToBeSpecial because she wanted to feel special]]. And not long after the squirrels open fire, the agent also [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere proceeds to ditch the two]] after having just been saved from the angry wasps infuriated by the ruse.]]
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**[[spoiler: The squirrels ask Cody and May to destroy their enemies, the wasps, which they end up doing. How do the squirrels reward them? They turn on the main characters and go out of their way to kill them ''despite the fact the two just won the war for them'', simply because they decided to spare [[{{Turncoat}} the squirrels' agent that had sided with the wasps while posing as a fake wasp queen]] [[IJustWantToBeSpecial because she wanted to feel special]]. And not long after the squirrels open fire, the agent also [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere proceeds to ditch the two]] after having just been saved from the angry wasps infuriated by the ruse.]]
** May and Cody have a problem with lying to the people around them to get what they want and hurting them with their lies. The one on the worst end of this is the Giant Beetle. Cody and May bribe him with getting the Queen's nectar and don't care when he gets shot down getting them to the queen. Even if he didn't die from that he definitely did when they blow the nectar themselves.
**[[spoiler: The squirrels ask Cody and May to destroy their enemies, the wasps, which they end up doing. How do the squirrels reward them? They turn on the main characters and go out of their way to kill them ''despite the fact the two just won the war for them'', simply because they decided to spare [[{{Turncoat}} the squirrels' agent that had sided with the wasps while posing as a fake wasp queen]] [[IJustWantToBeSpecial because she wanted to feel special]]. And not long after the squirrels open fire, the agent also [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere proceeds to ditch the two]] after having just been saved from the angry wasps infuriated by the ruse.]]
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** You can find action figures of Leo and Vincent from ''A Way Out''. Cody mentions that he gave them to Rose, even though they still curse.
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* AnimateInanimateObject: A duo of living dolls and a talking book make up the main cast aside from Rose, then there are almost all the background characters. From living toys to talking tools to walking glow sticks.
* AmbiguousSituation: It can be a little hard to tell whether or not Dr. Hakim himself is the one warping reality around our main duo or if it really is all Rose's doing and the book is just another piece of her imagination...
* AmbiguousSituation: It can be a little hard to tell whether or not Dr. Hakim himself is the one warping reality around our main duo or if it really is all Rose's doing and the book is just another piece of her imagination...
* AmbiguousSituation: It can be a little hard to tell whether or not Dr. Hakim himself is the one warping reality around our main duo or if it really is all Rose's doing and the book is just another piece of her imagination...
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* AnimateInanimateObject: A duo of living dolls and a talking book make up the main cast aside from Rose, then there are almost all the background characters. From living toys to talking tools to walking glow sticks.
* NeverMyFault: Cody and May spend a lot of the first half of the game blaming the other whenever something goes wrong. It's learning to overcome this that's a key aspect of repairing their relationship.
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''It Takes Two'' is an action-adventure video game developed by Hazelight Studios and published by Electronic Arts. It is directed and written by Creator/JosefFares, who was responsible ''VideoGame/BrothersATaleOfTwoSons'' and ''VideoGame/AWayOut''. Just like ''A Way Out'', ''It Takes Two'' has no single-player option: It is playable only in either online or local split-screen co-op between two players. The game was released on March 26, 2021.
The story follows Cody and May, an estranged couple who are magically turned into dolls by their daughter Rose. The two must work together with assistance from a magical book character named Dr. Hakim in order to fix their relationship and return to the real world.
!!Tropes in this game include:
* AdultFear: The very inciting incident is a little girl finding out that her parents are planning to divorce, and this is after witnessing the two of them arguing. [[spoiler:Cody and May endure an instance of this at the end when they find out that Rose has run away from home, believing that it was her fault they were planning to divorce]].
* AnimateInanimateObject: A duo of living dolls and a talking book make up the main cast aside from Rose, then there are almost all the background characters. From living toys to talking tools to walking glow sticks.
* AmbiguousSituation: It can be a little hard to tell whether or not Dr. Hakim himself is the one warping reality around our main duo or if it really is all Rose's doing and the book is just another piece of her imagination...
* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: Though Cody and May do reconcile, it's left up in the air if they've truly decided to stay together or if they'll go through with the divorce but remain [[AmicableExes on amicable terms]]. All they assure Rose is that their divorce is not her fault and that they'll always be there for her.]]
** If you have Cody and May stumble upon the Leo and Vincent dolls from the video game, ''VideoGame/AWayOut'' and activate them altogether, it showed Leo being pissed off at Vincent. What is he pissed at him for, [[spoiler:deceiving him all this time of being an undercover cop or being killed off by him]]? If it leans on the latter, then it's assumed that [[spoiler:the ending where Vincent lives while Leo dies]] is the canon ending for the game.
* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: A few moments stand out, especially the murder of Cutie the elephant. Yes, you literally KillTheCutie.
* GameplayRoulette: The gameplay style changes very frequently, sometimes in the span of a minute. You could be playing a third-person shooter one moment then the next you're doing a difficult platformer.
* GiantSpider: At one point in the game, Cody and May encounter two spiders that are [[FriendlyNeighborhoodSpider adorable, friendly,]] [[DownplayedTrope and only somewhat bigger than them]]. They're both rescued from a bad situation on two separate occasions and offer the two a ride in return. Then, they and the spiders they're riding encounter another, much larger spider [[spoiler:who is the mother of the two smaller ones and helps the main characters following the reunion]]. [[JustifiedTrope The size is justified]]; the spiders aren't actually huge, but only appear so because Cody and May are small relative to them.
* {{Irony}}: The very premise is this, with Cody and May being motivated to work together to return to their original bodies so that they can divorce, as in ''split up''.
* LargeHam: You can bet your bottom dollar Dr. Hakim fits the bill.
* LighterAndSofter: The premise itself is this compared to the last two games, which were [[VideoGame/BrothersATaleOfTwoSons a somewhat harrowing journey to save a dying parent]] and a [[VideoGame/AWayOut gritty jailbreak drama]], respectively. [[spoiler: It's also the first game to have a [[SurprisinglyHappyEnding completely happy ending]].]]
* ShoutOut:
** When May [[spoiler: takes on the squirrel chief as she and Cody attempt to make a getaway using the squirrels' airplane]], the gameplay shifts to a beat-em-up format strongly resembling ''Videogame/StreetFighter'' and/or ''Videogame/MortalKombat'', right down to having health bars with names and thumbnails, moves such as a [[KamehameHadoken Hadouken attack]], and its own take on fatalities.
** There's a stage late in the game that is very reminiscent of [[Videogame/MarioKart Rainbow Road]]. Even better, should one of the players fall off the track as they slide down, Dr. Hakim will hold that player in the air for a short time after they respawn in the same manner as Lakitu would, and Cody even uses Mario's catchphrase in the process.
--> '''Cody:''' It's a-me, Cody!
* NeverMyFault: Cody and May spend a lot of the first half of the game blaming the other whenever something goes wrong. It's learning to overcome this that's a key aspect of repairing their relationship.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Dr. Hakim's accent seems to constantly fluctuate between French and Spanish. Somewhat justified as he was magically brought to life by Rose, a child who'd likely associate both accents with love while not exactly knowing the differences between them.
* TheWonderland: Courtesy of Dr. Hakim’s Magic most likely, Cody and May in addition to being turned into dolls, have to go through various fantastical locales based around things around their family home. Places that would be way too big to all fit into that house of theirs without magic. For example, they opt to get to the toy castle in Rose’s room. First, they go under her bed but when they come out the other side they don’t find Rose’s small bedroom but a veritable canyon of building blocks with a ball pit spanning the entire floor, a block fort with a brief segment in a classroom, an inflatable obstacle course, a bizarre dimension inside a kaleidoscope, a land of dinosaurs, a pirate fortress on a river complete with a giant octopus, a circus, a toy village, and finally the toy castle which is clearly bigger on the inside. And before all that? A pillow fort and a space station. And all this in a single chapter!
''It Takes Two'' is an action-adventure video game developed by Hazelight Studios and published by Electronic Arts. It is directed and written by Creator/JosefFares, who was responsible ''VideoGame/BrothersATaleOfTwoSons'' and ''VideoGame/AWayOut''. Just like ''A Way Out'', ''It Takes Two'' has no single-player option: It is playable only in either online or local split-screen co-op between two players. The game was released on March 26, 2021.
The story follows Cody and May, an estranged couple who are magically turned into dolls by their daughter Rose. The two must work together with assistance from a magical book character named Dr. Hakim in order to fix their relationship and return to the real world.
!!Tropes in this game include:
* AdultFear: The very inciting incident is a little girl finding out that her parents are planning to divorce, and this is after witnessing the two of them arguing. [[spoiler:Cody and May endure an instance of this at the end when they find out that Rose has run away from home, believing that it was her fault they were planning to divorce]].
* AnimateInanimateObject: A duo of living dolls and a talking book make up the main cast aside from Rose, then there are almost all the background characters. From living toys to talking tools to walking glow sticks.
* AmbiguousSituation: It can be a little hard to tell whether or not Dr. Hakim himself is the one warping reality around our main duo or if it really is all Rose's doing and the book is just another piece of her imagination...
* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: Though Cody and May do reconcile, it's left up in the air if they've truly decided to stay together or if they'll go through with the divorce but remain [[AmicableExes on amicable terms]]. All they assure Rose is that their divorce is not her fault and that they'll always be there for her.]]
** If you have Cody and May stumble upon the Leo and Vincent dolls from the video game, ''VideoGame/AWayOut'' and activate them altogether, it showed Leo being pissed off at Vincent. What is he pissed at him for, [[spoiler:deceiving him all this time of being an undercover cop or being killed off by him]]? If it leans on the latter, then it's assumed that [[spoiler:the ending where Vincent lives while Leo dies]] is the canon ending for the game.
* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: A few moments stand out, especially the murder of Cutie the elephant. Yes, you literally KillTheCutie.
* GameplayRoulette: The gameplay style changes very frequently, sometimes in the span of a minute. You could be playing a third-person shooter one moment then the next you're doing a difficult platformer.
* GiantSpider: At one point in the game, Cody and May encounter two spiders that are [[FriendlyNeighborhoodSpider adorable, friendly,]] [[DownplayedTrope and only somewhat bigger than them]]. They're both rescued from a bad situation on two separate occasions and offer the two a ride in return. Then, they and the spiders they're riding encounter another, much larger spider [[spoiler:who is the mother of the two smaller ones and helps the main characters following the reunion]]. [[JustifiedTrope The size is justified]]; the spiders aren't actually huge, but only appear so because Cody and May are small relative to them.
* {{Irony}}: The very premise is this, with Cody and May being motivated to work together to return to their original bodies so that they can divorce, as in ''split up''.
* LargeHam: You can bet your bottom dollar Dr. Hakim fits the bill.
* LighterAndSofter: The premise itself is this compared to the last two games, which were [[VideoGame/BrothersATaleOfTwoSons a somewhat harrowing journey to save a dying parent]] and a [[VideoGame/AWayOut gritty jailbreak drama]], respectively. [[spoiler: It's also the first game to have a [[SurprisinglyHappyEnding completely happy ending]].]]
* ShoutOut:
** When May [[spoiler: takes on the squirrel chief as she and Cody attempt to make a getaway using the squirrels' airplane]], the gameplay shifts to a beat-em-up format strongly resembling ''Videogame/StreetFighter'' and/or ''Videogame/MortalKombat'', right down to having health bars with names and thumbnails, moves such as a [[KamehameHadoken Hadouken attack]], and its own take on fatalities.
** There's a stage late in the game that is very reminiscent of [[Videogame/MarioKart Rainbow Road]]. Even better, should one of the players fall off the track as they slide down, Dr. Hakim will hold that player in the air for a short time after they respawn in the same manner as Lakitu would, and Cody even uses Mario's catchphrase in the process.
--> '''Cody:''' It's a-me, Cody!
* NeverMyFault: Cody and May spend a lot of the first half of the game blaming the other whenever something goes wrong. It's learning to overcome this that's a key aspect of repairing their relationship.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Dr. Hakim's accent seems to constantly fluctuate between French and Spanish. Somewhat justified as he was magically brought to life by Rose, a child who'd likely associate both accents with love while not exactly knowing the differences between them.
* TheWonderland: Courtesy of Dr. Hakim’s Magic most likely, Cody and May in addition to being turned into dolls, have to go through various fantastical locales based around things around their family home. Places that would be way too big to all fit into that house of theirs without magic. For example, they opt to get to the toy castle in Rose’s room. First, they go under her bed but when they come out the other side they don’t find Rose’s small bedroom but a veritable canyon of building blocks with a ball pit spanning the entire floor, a block fort with a brief segment in a classroom, an inflatable obstacle course, a bizarre dimension inside a kaleidoscope, a land of dinosaurs, a pirate fortress on a river complete with a giant octopus, a circus, a toy village, and finally the toy castle which is clearly bigger on the inside. And before all that? A pillow fort and a space station. And all this in a single chapter!
