Snoopy's Grand Adventure Coming November 3rd

[Nathan Drake]

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Activision released a trailer on their youtube channel for a new game that looks surprisingly fun. The game, Peanuts: Snoopy's Grand Adventure seems to be a 2D platforming title, and the trailer doesn't make it look half bad despite it being a movie tie-in.

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Take Snoopy on a grand adventure through environments, created by his imagination, as he tries to find Charlie Brown and all his friends. With Woodstock and the Beagle Scouts by his side Snoopy can unlock new abilities and performs special moves as he weaves his way through this magical journey.

The game even features Woodstock as a co-op playable character.

The game is set to release November 3rd in NA and November 6th in Europe on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS4, Wii U, and the 3DS. Let's all hope this doesn't go the way of 99% of movie tie-in games ever.

 

[endoverend]

Hmm. Almost looks like Donkey Kong Country or Kirby's Epic Yarn. Loving the art style. Looks interesting, at least for a movie game.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

>Not Snoop Dogg

0/10

 

[RevPokemon]

Looks great although I wish it was more like classic peanuts animation

 

[WiiCube_2013]

Definitely a contender for the Game of the Year!

 

[Issac]

I actually think it looks quite fun Would've been kick-ass if it looked like the old animation style (a bit like paper mario).

 

[chavosaur]

I really like the way this looks, I want it for my Xbone!

Also wow that music.

 

[Sakitoshi]

Just wanted to point out that is kinda weird that isn't coming to PS3 or Vita but is coming to Wii U and 3DS.

 

[Nathan Drake]

Just wanted to point out that is kinda weird that isn't coming to PS3 or Vita but is coming to Wii U and 3DS.

The PS3 bit can be explained away by the extra work to port due to its unique hardware. They probably just don't think it's worth it. For the Vita version, I dunno. Probably just too lazy and they figure a 3DS version is enough.

 

[RevPokemon]

The PS3 bit can be explained away by the extra work to port due to its unique hardware. They probably just don't think it's worth it. For the Vita version, I dunno. Probably just too lazy and they figure a 3DS version is enough.

Well another thing I doubt the vita owners is the market

 

[Nathan Drake]

Well another thing I doubt the vita owners is the market

To be fair, with these move tie ins, the market is essentially "everybody". At the same time, they want to limit production costs while appealing to everybody. Admittedly, the game doesn't much look like something I'd expect to find on my Vita, but at the same time, getting it out there wouldn't have hurt. Production costs versus expected profit must have decided that the Vita wasn't a worthwhile platform to port to. It's not surprising though. Japanese developers are the only ones that still really care about the Vita, and that's okay.

 

[RevPokemon]

To be fair, with these move tie ins, the market is essentially "everybody". At the same time, they want to limit production costs while appealing to everybody. Admittedly, the game doesn't much look like something I'd expect to find on my Vita, but at the same time, getting it out there wouldn't have hurt. Production costs versus expected profit must have decided that the Vita wasn't a worthwhile platform to port to. It's not surprising though. Japanese developers are the only ones that still really care about the Vita, and that's okay.

True but I thought snoopy was very popular in Japan

 

[Sakitoshi]

The PS3 bit can be explained away by the extra work to port due to its unique hardware. They probably just don't think it's worth it. For the Vita version, I dunno. Probably just too lazy and they figure a 3DS version is enough.

extra work is doing the game for Wii U and 3DS.
Wii U is way newer and the SDK isn't as polished as the PS3 SDK. sure enough developers are already used and know how to optimize PS3 games quickly and easy.
for 3DS they will need to retouch the assets and scale down the whole engine, or do a completely different game as they are used to do with underpowered hardware.
for Vita I'm guessing as they skipped PS3 they skipped Vita too because AFAIK the SDK is similar. that's why there are so many PS3 to Vita and Vita to PS3 ports, because is fairly easy to port between PS3 and Vita.

 

[RevPokemon]

extra work is doing the game for Wii U and 3DS.
Wii U is way newer and the SDK isn't as polished as the PS3 SDK. sure enough developers are already used and know how to optimize PS3 games quickly and easy.
for 3DS they will need to retouch the assets and scale down the whole engine, or do a completely different game as they are used to do with underpowered hardware.
for Vita I'm guessing as they skipped PS3 they skipped Vita too because AFAIK the SDK is similar. that's why there are so many PS3 to Vita and Vita to PS3 ports, because is fairly easy to port between PS3 and Vita.

True but I guess it's just work vs reward ultimately