Giorgio and Felicia are two newlyweds who still love each other, but the ‘honeymoon phase’ is starting to be over as Felicia longs for more romantic days.  So she enters a vacation contest and wins, so the couple have a second honeymoon in Egypt.  While exploring the pyramids, the two get lost from the tour group and accidentally wake a mummy’s spirit.  Now they must explore the cursed pyramids and other temples to find four talismans to break the curse.  Falling Out is a 2-D platforming co-op game with randomly generated dungeons.  You can play single player or with a friend locally, and it’s available on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.

Each level is a few screens long with lots of mazes and corridors.  You can play single player and switch between the two characters, or you can play co-op.  I mostly played single player, though.  You can switch between the two explorers, but you’ll mostly play as Giorgio as he can carry Felicia and has a handy double jump.  You can also pick up and throw items (or your wife), stomp on enemies, plus collect coins and items.  Your goal is to find the exit before time runs out and the temple floods, but you can still swim to the exit if you have enough air.

In between levels you can visit a shop to buy items that’ll help you out.  You can also collect materials in the levels that you can use to craft items as well.  You’ll travel to all sorts of temples, from pyramids in Egypt and even Antarctica!  I loved the retro pixel graphics, as they reminded me of Spelunker in a way.  But I’m not a big fan of games that have randomly generated levels, as I prefer ones with clever level design instead.  But the big turnoff for me here is that you have a limited number of lives, and if you run out, you must start completely over again, so that made me lose interest quickly right there.

Kid Factor:

Falling Out is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Crude Humor and Fantasy Violence. Giorgio double jumps by farting, and you can even see a green cloud when he does so.  Defeated characters just fall down, and you can hit them with weapons as well as stomp on them.  Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may find it too difficult.

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