Adventures: Homecoming

The cover art of the game, featuring the Dreamlock template on the top.

### Platform(s)

Imaginate Dreamlock, Imaginate Neo Reo (soon), Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PC, Google Stadia

### Engine

Unreal Engine 3

***Adventures: Homecoming*** is a 3D platform action-adventure video game developed by Ri Studios and published by Imaginate. The game was developed using Unreal Engine 3. The gameplay was inspired by modern 3D platformers that tries to replicate earlier 3D platformers from the past such as *Super Mario Odyssey*, *A Hat In Time* and *Super Lucky's Tale*. Though the game is inspired by both *A Hat In Time* and *Super Lucky's Tale*. Aside from those, it is a sequel to the stand-alone critical acclaimed side-scroller *Adventures Uprising*.

The game was released in April 3rd, 2020 alongside *Adventures: Homecoming: 3D Edition* and another Imaginate game which is *Heroes R: Superheroes*.

## Development

After the mixed reception of *Adventures 3*, Ri Studios steps in to make the *Adventures* series better again. They use Unreal Engine 3 for the first time rather than using their own engines they made. This new game will be inspired by the likes of late 2010s 3D titles such as *Super Mario Odyssey*, *A Hat In Time* and *Super Lucky's Tale*.

With this new *Adventures* game being in development, Imaginate employees who are art designers decided to redesign characters into a modern version.

A beta test was released in September 1st, 2019 through December 31st, 2019. Fans liked the overall gameplay and redesigns of the characters but criticizes some details of the redesigned characters. For example, fans were questioning "where's Hannah's freckles?"

In February 14th, Imaginate announced that a special edition will be released alongside the game and *Heroes R: Superheroes* in April 2020.

In February 24th, Imaginate showed off some new characters for the new game, which are Hannah's new friends. Fans liked the idea of Hannah having new friends.

## Gameplay

As described, the gameplay is inspired by *Super Mario Odyssey*, *Super Lucky's Tale* and *A Hat In Time*, but more inspired by *A Hat In Time* and *Super Lucky's Tale*.

The A button is to jump, the B button is to dash/run, the X button is to attack and the Y button is to activate a special ability from the Special Wheel by scrolling it with the RS stick. You can use the camera in different direction by using the RS stick. You can also interact with things with the B button as well. To crouch, you have to press down the LS stick with one click. To taunt, you can tap up on the D-Pad.

## Plot

The game follows Hannah as she goes on a 1 month vacation on Superium, although there are new villains she must face with. Before the month ends, Dr. Darkness is on the loose and is causing havoc in Arcadium. Hearing the news about it, Hannah has no choice but to go homecoming, hence the game's title (meaning that one is on their way home from another place). While she's in Superium, she came across new friends in which she describes them as power.

## Reception

The game received "universal acclaim". IGN gave the game a 8/10 and says the game is a "fresh return for the *Adventures* series' 3D run and more appealing than *Adventures 3*. Also, the music is on point". SurferReviewer gave the game 8/10 dots and says that the game is "the true *Adventures 3*". GalacticGamer gave it 10/10 stars and calls it the "best *Adventures* game up to date, including the music for the game and new characters". Metacritic scores the game a 90/100% only on the Imaginate Dreamlock. GameSpot gave the game a 8/10. Destructoid gave the game a 9.0/10. Nintendo Life gave the game a 8/10. Polygon gave the game a 9.2/10. Huneykune gave the game a fair score which is 46/50 and calls it the "true *Adventures 3*".

 *Huneykune* | 46/50

## Music

The music was composed by Grant Kirkhope, who is best known for composing the music for several Nintendo and non-Nintendo games such as *Donkey Kong 64*, *Perfect Dark*, *Goldeneye 007*, *Banjo-Kazooie*, *Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning*, *Yooka-Laylee* and *Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle*. Although some other music was composed by other composers.

## April Fools

In April 1st, 2020, Kidtendo TM posted a April Fools Instagram post of the game to be delayed for a September 9th, 2020 release. However, in the next photo in the same post, it has a closeup of Hannah's face with the words 'April Fools!' next to her.

## Special Edition

A special edition for the game called *Adventures: Homecoming: 3D Edition* was released only for the Dreamlock in April 3rd, 2020. In the special edition, it comes with the game itself, a Dreamlock Controller XL with the colors based on Hannah's new redesign, a DLC card for Hannah's Sonic Outfit for $5.00 and a poster of the cover art featuring Hannah, Valencia, Schroeder, Lilac and Amiya.

## Gallery

The box art for the 3D Edition of the game.The logo of the game.The disc of the game.
## Spin-Off

A spin-off of the game called ***Adventures: Runners*** was released on October 23rd, 2020. It is a endless runner game featuring the cast of characters from this game as they must go through a room of obstacles but the room itself is crumbling because of Dr. Darkness planting a device that makes it evaporate slowly. The only way for the team to make it out is to collect 1000 Tokens per 10 or 30 points.

## Trivia

* The word "homecoming" from the title is possibly a play on words of the 2017 superhero Marvel movie *Spiderman: Homecoming*.
* The 3D Edition's box and its box art pays homage to the Nintendo 64 game boxes and its box art (with the "only for" sticker on the right side of the box).
* Fans call this game the true *Adventures 3* due to the lacklusterness of the real *Adventures 3*.
* A DLC District called *Jackal Hunt* was released on October 23rd, 2020.