Even though the idea behind It Takes Two is silly, there are parts of the game that just don’t make sense.
It Takes Two is a game about getting divorced and falling in love again, which sounds like a strange mix. However, the game is fun and often silly. There is a lot of magical nonsense in the game. For example, you can ice skate inside snow globes and fight bad plants. It would be hard to find a part of the game that is not completely ridiculous.
Even in a game like It Takes Two, which is meant to be weird, there are things that really throw you off and make you wonder what you are doing. Here are just a few of the strange things that happen in It Takes Two.
Rose Never Notices Something Is Seriously Wrong With Her Parents
At different points in the game, while May and Cody are on adventures and trying to get back to their real bodies, Rose goes up to her parents and tries to start a talk. At this time, both of her parents are asleep because their “souls” are stuck in the dolls.
Rose never looks worried about the fact that her parents are passed out and not responding. She just gives them a sad look and leaves, even though she must have left them like this for hours. It is totally unbelievable that she would think they are ignoring her instead of figuring out that something is wrong.
The Neglected Moon Baboon Thinks He And Rose Are “Best Friends”
This plot hole may be more of a sign that Moon Baboon is in denial, but it’s a weird bit of story-building that makes May and Cody’s time away from him feel forced. Moon Baboon attacks May and Cody, yelling at them the whole time about how wrong it is that they tried to make Rose cry. He says he is Rose’s best friend and only wants what is best for her.
But May says that she hasn’t played with Moon Baboon in years when she talks about how she got it for Rose at the space museum. If anything, we would expect the Moon Baboon that Rose didn’t care for to be angry with her.
You Can Conduct Electricity
At the start of Eggy Car game, Cody and May are turned into dolls by the “wish” magic of their daughter. Even though Cody and May are made of clay and wood, respectively, they show that they can handle pretty much any force of nature. It might seem even more strange that they can get electricity to flow between wires to solve tasks in “The Shed,” the first area of the game. Since they can’t be killed when they turn into dolls, it’s easy to let this one slide. Even if May were to touch a hot wire and start to burn, she wouldn’t.
Why Squirrels Versus Wasps?
Cody and May leave the shed and end up in the big tree in their yard. But they are not alone. The squirrels and the wasps that live in the tree in their garden seem to have been at war for a long time. At the very least, it’s an interesting competition. Most of the time, wasps are not on a squirrel’s list of natural enemies. Even though squirrels will leave trees that have wasp nests in them. Even though the situation is unusual, it does make for some interesting level design.
Mother Spiders Don’t Care About Their Young
In the Garden chapter of It Takes Two, there is a part that might even get a spider-phobe to open up. Almost. Cody and May make friends with two little spiders who let them ride on their backs after they save them. It’s a fun level with platforms that turn upside down and stages that move around.
Cody and May were finally reunited when the spiders led them back to the Mama Spider. In fact, only a small number of spider species take care of their babies after they are born. One of the few cases is the Wolf Spider, which sometimes carries its babies on its back. We hope very much, though, that our friends are Wolf Spiders.
Why Does The Book Have Facial Hair?
In It Takes Two, everything goes wrong because of “The Book of Love,” which is also called “Dr. Hakim.” This is the book that Rose’s “magic wish” that her parents would stay together was tied to. So, once they turn into Rose’s toys, the Book of Love is in charge of their adventures from then on.
But for some reason, The Book of Love shows up as a shiny pink monster with a moustache, a split chin, and a fake Spanish accent. You might think that this is meant to be the book’s author, Dr. Hakim, in person. But why does he have “facial hair” at all? And why is it pink?
You Need A Head To Play The Trumpet
In the Attic, the Book of Love tells Cody and May that they need to put together everything May needs for a comeback show. At one point, it takes them to a magical place that looks like heaven and is full of angels and devils. But the orchestra members you have to save might be the strangest thing about this whole part, not the storm clouds that seem to be crying because they are alive. It looks like the whole group is made of nothing. No hands, no feet, and no heads. Even so, it doesn’t look like that’s stopping the wind part from playing.
Cloning And Teleportation Aren’t Synonymous
Cody is given the power to turn back time in the Cuckoo Clock stage, which is about time management and how time gets away from us. May, meanwhile, is said to get the power to “teleport.” In fact, this part of her ability lets her make a copy of herself and then teleport back to that copy. This is a clear metaphor for how May wants to be “in two places at once,” so you might think you could switch between playing as Clone May and Real May, like in Luigi’s Mansion. Instead, your clone is not much different from the cubes in Portal. He or she is just a weight that needs to be put in the right place to solve tasks.
Dr. Hakim’s Advice On Love Is Just Bad
It’s not that it’s impossible to fall back in love with someone you once thought was wrong for you. Lots of people do that, and their relationships are good and work. Dr. Hakim’s ideas are used to try to teach “lessons” in the Book of Love, but none of them really explain how that works. Many of the “lessons” that the Book tries to teach boil down to “just love each other.” Simpler explanations often leave out the complexities of divorce and the difficulties of raising children.
There are a lot of self-help books out there with the same kind of toxic enthusiasm that Dr. Hakim gives off. If they were trying to make this connection, though, they don’t do much to address the fact that much of Dr. Hakim’s advice is way off.
Why Did We Murder That Poor Elephant?
The death of Cutie the Elephant is probably the most upsetting thing that happens in It Takes Two or almost any other game. This event came out of nowhere and threw many people for a loop. The whole time, you had to sit there and wonder if they would ever stop and realise they were wrong. Or you could wait out the quick-time events and hope that the choice to kill poor Cutie would go away. Since this isn’t a Telltale Games game, you can’t save Cutie by doing nothing. It was more than just stupid for them to destroy their daughter’s favorite toy in the hope that her tears would stop the magic. It was very bad. We all make mistakes as parents, and sometimes we do things that we know will have a huge effect on our kids in the future. What Cody and May did to Cutie is glossed over instead of being used as a teaching moment, which is, to say the least, disappointing.