the World: The Game – Complete Edition definitely does superbly is bring the comic book’s art style alive while also slipping in easily to the pixel art style.
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If you haven’t recently read the comic or seen the film it can feel like you’re moving from one setting to the next without a good bit of context, but it feels less like you’re missing out on a plot and more like you might not get a specific reference or pick up on some of the meaning behind certain wordless interactions. It does introduce the main concepts like the fact that Scott Pilgrim is fighting the seven evil exes of a girl named Ramona Flowers he’s interested in, but the only text used to further this plot are things like level intros or the very small profiles given for the boss characters you’re about to fight. One odd thing about the game though is it appears to expect some level of familiarity with the source material. Luckily, once all the rights issues that had kept it locked away were sorted out, the game was rereleased with all its DLC packed in and, more importantly, physical editions were made so the game could always circulate no matter what happened to its digital versions. However, around 4 years after release the game was removed from digital storefronts, meaning there was no legitimate means of obtaining the game for almost six years. the World getting a major motion picture, this game was an adaptation of a media franchise that appealed heavily to the gaming crowd with its many video game references and the game itself was a throwback to old co-op beat ’em ups in a time when the genre wasn’t getting too many new titles.
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Released to coincide with the comic book series Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game was the poster child for one of the biggest problems with digital only releases.