The Adventure Pals is an action-oriented Platform Game developed by Sydney, Australia-based indie developer Massive Monster. It is a recreation of a Flash game called Super Adventure Pals.
You play as Wilton, who is celebrating his 16th birthday with his father, when the latter gets "dad-napped", forcing you to go on an adventure to rescue him.
It was released on April 3rd, 2018 for PC, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. You can buy it on Steam here
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The Adventure Pals provides examples of:
- Advancing Boss of Doom: The Veggiesaur. You can only outrun it before it is eaten alive by an NPC at the end of the level.
- Big Boo's Haunt: Shady Willows, one of the levels in Treevale, takes place in a cemetery.
- Chain Lightning: Lightning Damage, one of the enchantments from a red chest, attacks nearby foes in addition to the one who's under attack.
- Damage Over Time: Characters can be inflicted with Poison or Fire that causes them to take small amounts of damage every few seconds.
- Damn You, Muscle Memory!: On a controller hitting B is almost always "close the current menu". However, in this game pressing B while you have your inventory open instead uses the currently selected item, resulting in plenty of wasted bombs and potions.
- Dangerous 16th Birthday: You are under attack when you start celebrating your 16th birthday.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: The villain was being mind-controlled by the evil but innocent-looking goldfish with him.
- Genial Giraffe: Wilton's giraffe is definitely this, serving as his mount, stretching his neck, and using his tongue as a propellor to help him get through the various worlds.
- Goomba Stomp: Some enemies can be defeated by jumping on them.
- Green Hill Zone: Treevale, the world you start in, takes place on greenery plains.
- Palmtree Panic: Port O' Potty, the second world Wilton travels to, takes place on the beach.
- Shout-Out: The last page of the sticker book contains characters from other games, including:
- Burrito Bison
- Matt and Natalie from Epic Battle Fantasy
- Hollow Knight
- The Newgrounds' mascot
- A zombie from Infectonator!
- Space Base: The villain's operative base is found on the moon.
- Space Whale: Once you've reached Lunacropolis, you can go to Missy Moops to travel to other worlds.
- Space Zone: Lunacropolis, the last world, takes place on the moon.
- Spell Blade: Red chests enchants your sword with various powers.
- Under the Sea: Crablantis, the forth world Wilton travels to, takes place underwater.
