Scooby Doo! & Looney Tunes Cartoon Universe: Adventure

I went into this one hoping WayForward's involvement meant something, because WayForward is genuinely capable of delivering sharp action-platformers. What I found instead was a licensed title that feels like it was built around a brand deal first and a game second. You create a custom cartoon-style character and guide them through 16 isometric maps split across two storylines: a Looney Tunes half where Bugs and Daffy investigate the chaos-causing MOCME corporation, and a shorter Scooby-Doo half centred on the mystery of Kraken Cove. The split is lopsided - roughly three quarters of the runtime lives in the Looney Tunes section, and for a game that sells itself on the Scooby brand as heavily as the Looney Tunes one, that imbalance will frustrate anyone who came specifically for Mystery Inc. The core loop is basic: move through a level, hit enemies with your basic attack or a picked-up weapon, collect coins, reach the golden chest at the end. Weapons include things like a boxing-glove mallet and an umbrella that blocks falling anvils, which is at least thematically on-brand. The problem is that weapon choice barely matters. The default attack handles most encounters just fine, and the difficulty never escalates meaningfully because enemies drop health pickups generously whenever your bar dips low. Bosses appear every four stages but land with a thud - there is not much pattern-reading or skill expression involved. The coin economy funds cosmetic outfits and minor upgrades, but customisation depth is surface-level at best. Where the game earns partial credit is in presentation. Voice work pulls from the official casts of both the Scooby-Doo cartoons and The Looney Tunes Show, and the audio quality is noticeably better than you'd expect for a budget title at this price tier. The soundtrack has a bossa nova looseness to it that matches the tone of The Looney Tunes Show. Visually, the game marries the flat, modern Looney Tunes Show character designs with the slightly more grounded Scooby-Doo aesthetic, and it mostly works at a glance. These are genuinely good-looking cartoon characters. The environment variety across suburbs, malls, cheese mines, and coastal areas at least keeps scenery rotating. Who is this actually for? A young child who watches both cartoons and has not yet developed pattern recognition for lazy licensed games will find a breezy afternoon here. The isometric layout is easy to parse, the controls are simple, and the content is completely age-appropriate. For everyone else - especially anyone who grew up with either franchise and came with any nostalgia investment - the game falls well short of what these properties could support. There are no playable canonical characters from either show in the main adventure, which is the most baffling design choice in the whole package. You play a blank original character while Scooby, Bugs, and the gang appear only in cutscenes. That decision alone drains most of the fan-service value that is supposed to carry a game like this.

Alex · Scout Team

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