GAMES REVIEW: Rick and Morty’s Rushed Licensed Adventure Chapter 2

I’ve spent a day trying to rack my brain, thinking of anything new I can say about this game that wouldn’t sound like I’m repeating myself from my review of Chapter 1. I came up with one new thing but let’s get the contextual story and short review of the controls done first.

Morty, after eating some of Rick’s blue science goo, ends up getting shrunk and soon gets himself locked in the fridge by Rick. Now he must use food items and Meta humour to get out of the fridge and beat the game. And for the controls, like I said last time it’s your basic point and click, in the lane of King’s Quest and those other DOS games. At the time I wrote that review I hadn’t watched any episodes of Rick and Morty, to experiment whether the game would intrigue me enough to watch the show. It didn’t.

But now I’m tackling the game with a new frame of reference, as someone who has seen and loved the first few episodes of Rick and Morty. I think my thoughts can be best explained by what I did when I first booted the game up. The game started, Morty ate the goo, Morty shrank and then I made him walk off the table to his death several times. Then I had a good chuckle. The game just doesn’t have that same quick witted punch to its dialogue that the show has and its entirely the fault of the medium it’s presented in.

These point and click adventures don’t exactly have a lightning quick pace as you slowly have to listen to every whiny word Morty utters, it makes me just click on the nearest insta-death object to punish him for opening his stupid hole. In the show I can tolerate Morty’s whiny personality because the pace of the show’s dialogue doesn’t make you dwell on it, and it better frames scenarios where Morty’s whininess plays to offset the outrageous personality that is Rick. That’s not the case here.

So, congrats to Rick and Morty’s Chapter 2 of their rushed licensed adventure, it’s just as Meta, competent and non interesting as Chapter 1. Now that I can compare it to the show, the game gets the lovely honour of getting knocked down a point. If you’re a fan of the show it’s harmless but for anyone else it’s pretty bland and worst yet, irritating.