After telling their daughter, Rose, about their impending separation, May and Cody are put under some kind of spell and transformed into two of Rose’s dolls. The players take on the roles of May and Cody, a tenuously married couple on the verge of getting a divorce. Instead, the game is cooperative, requiring two players to work together to overcome both fantastical obstacles and emotional distance. There are a lot of easy jokes that could come out of “a video game about marriage.” (“Who’s the big, bad boss of this game? My freakin’ WIFE?!”) To its credit, It Takes Two mostly avoids this particular set of clichés. Released in March 2021, the game is available to play on Xbox, Playstation 4 and 5, and PC. It Takes Two is a video game about marriage, created by Swedish developer Hazelight Studios, published by gaming giant Electronic Arts, written by Josef Fares and Soni Jorgensen, and directed by Fares.
We were trying to win the first boss fight of It Takes Two. We weren’t arguing over cleaning duties: The vacuum - gigantic, anthropomorphic, and very angry - was an enemy to overcome. The vacuum had caused a lot of stress on a Sunday morning because it simply refused to do what it was supposed to. After half an hour of fighting with a vacuum cleaner, my girlfriend and I had to take a break.
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