The plot is about as deep as you’d expect from a licensed title, but we have to admit that bringing Scrat back as the main protagonist was probably the best decision the developers could have made he’s everyone’s favourite character for a reason. And so, to retrieve his acorn, Scrat heads out to four distinct locations to find the Crystal Nuts and return them to the temple. The temple mistakes the acorn as an offering, and activates the four Crystal Nuts.

Once again, the lovable Scrat is on a needlessly dangerous quest to recover his precious acorn after dropping it into the mystical Scratazon Temple. But what’s so frustrating is that there’s heaps of potential here for it to be a great game – there's some excellent level design on display, for example – but it’s clear the developers just settled for ‘good enough’ for the most part. What’s more, the performance of the game on Switch is really rough in comparison to other platforms, with a shocking frame rate and bland visuals. It’s an incredibly mundane platformer that’s completely devoid of any originality or challenge. We’ll just come right out and say it: this isn’t a good game. Ice Age: Scrat’s Nutty Adventure is the latest game in the franchise, starring everyone’s favourite sabre-toothed squirrel in a quest to find the four legendary Crystal Nuts – hey, quiet in the back! Despite harsh critical reception towards the latest movie, it still made a mammoth (ha!) amount of money, and so the wheels keep turning. Wow, there’s just no stopping Ice Age, is there? Just like The Pleistocene, 20th Century Fox’s (or Disney’s now, we guess) animated juggernaut has been relentless since the release of the first movie back in 2002, with a total of five cinematic releases, a host of short films and TV shows, and a plethora of console and online games.

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