In It Takes Two, Cody and May go through a divorce. Their daughter Rose, upset by their fights, makes her parents dolls. Somehow – we don’t really know how this happens yet – their minds are transplanted into those dolls, and Cody and May then have to work together to figure out how to get back into their actual bodies. All this while accompanied by the magically speaking Book of Love, Dr. Hakim. It gets wonderfully weird – as Cody and May visit the squirrels in the garden and find themselves engaged in an all-out war with wasps, who moved in after Cody allowed them to build a nest. However, the squirrels have not wasted time and have apparently developed weapons that, after enlisting Cody and May in battle, they can use to destroy the wasps. It’s a co-op game, so Cody and May still have to work together, with one operating the juice cannon and one the match gun to create explosions.
Fares says that on most levels, both characters use a new mechanic – in one, we see Cody and May arguing over timekeeping. She says he has no sense of time, he says she’s never there; the magic book intervenes, giving Cody the power to control time, and May the ability to clone herself. It Takes Two also includes an “interactive and fun” world instead of collectibles, and mini games for Cody and May to compete in.
When It Takes Two launches on March 26, and anyone who owns the game can invite a friend to play online co-op for free with the Friend’s Pass. The Friend’s Pass works with cross-gen but not cross-platform, and you both need first-party accounts. If your friend then decides to buy the game themselves, the saved progress will be carried over. What do you think of It Takes Two? Let us know in the comments!