Adventure Time: Hey Ice King, Why’d You Steal Our Garbage!?

Players familiar with the Adventure Time TV show will find all the familiar faces and ideas in Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!. Finn and Jake, a boy and his trusty canine best friend, adventure through the strange world they inhabit doing typical Dungeons and Dragons-type activities like saving princess, fighting wizards, and treasure-hunting in dungeons.

The basic plot of the game is that Finn and Jake's mortal enemy, the Ice King, is constructing a Garbage Princess out of pieces of rubbish that he's collecting. The heroes must get to the bottom of the problem and stop the Ice King before it's too late.

Adventure Time is a sometimes bewildering story in its weirdness, but consistently drops jewels of wisdom for its young viewers (and older ones, to be fair). At it's core it's a story about growing up and learning about the world around you--both the bad and the good. Its strong emphasis on friendship and caring, and the stereotypes it breaks out of, make it a great choice for kids of all ages. That said, players unfamiliar with the show might be baffled by the game.

Water fountains in the game act as savepoints.

The game is not difficult to play, but some boss fights may have a steep difficulty curve. There is also a game+ mode that can be entered upon winning the game for the first time—players can replay on a higher difficulty setting in game+.

• What do you think about the Ice King's constant yearning for a girlfriend? Can loneliness on his part ever make his actions okay?
• Why do you think all of the (humanoid) female characters on Adventure Time are princesses?
• What does having a large number of princess characters accomplish in terms of having lots of girls in the story?
• Are the female characters more diverse and interesting than female characters typically are?