It Takes Two (video game)

It Takes Two is a 2021 cooperative action-adventure game developed by Hazelight Studios and published by Electronic Arts.

The game follows a couple transformed into living dolls as they attempt to find a way out while trying to mend their relationship.

After they tell their daughter Rose (Clare Corbett) the news, she takes her hand-made dolls, which look like her parents, into the family shed and tries to repair their relationship by play-acting.

As they travel all around their property, Cody and May are reminded of the positive memories they had together, as well as what originally drew them together to become a couple, and learn to work together and collaborate to move forward in their journey.

Meanwhile, Rose continues to do her best to mend the relationship between her parents, but both Cody and May's real bodies have fallen unconscious and will not respond to her.

Thinking her parents are ignoring her, Rose comes to believe that she is the reason their marriage is falling apart and decides to run away in hopes that will make them stay together.

[4] The development team worked to ensure that the gameplay had connection with the narrative, and that as the story unfolds, the game's mechanics will change accordingly.

The program allowed Hazelight to retain full creative control while receiving most of the game's profit after development cost was recouped.

Hazelight abandoned the trademark application of the name, making it difficult for them to engage in certain types of marketing, but the developers said they are "hopeful it will be resolved".

[39] As of January 2022, two adaptations, a feature film and a television series, were in development from Dmitri M. Johnson's dj2 Entertainment studios.

The project will include collaborative input from the video game's creative developer, Hazelight Studios.

[49] By April, Amazon acquired distribution rights, as part of a first-look deal between the company, dj2 Entertainment, and the screenwriters.

The plot was confirmed to follow the basic premise of the game: lead characters May and Cody are a married couple considering divorce whose minds are inadvertently trapped in two dolls when their daughter starts crying.

It Takes Two is specifically designed for split-screen multiplayer . To progress in the game, the two players must fulfill different roles and achieve their objectives cooperatively.