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* HailfirePeaks: The chapter set in Rose's room seems to be one massive experiment in combining ToyTime with other stock video game settings: SpaceZone (Moon Baboon and the other space toys), {{Prehistoria}} (dinosaur toys), GangplankGalleon (pirate toys, including a boss fight against a giant plush octopus), and finally a BigFancyCastle to hold all of Rose's little knight figurines and Queen Cutie.


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* LivingToys:
** May and Cody themselves spend most of the game as these, being a wooden figure and a clay doll respectively.
** Upon reaching Rose's room, the bickering couple see that all of Rose's toys have come to life- including Cutie, a stuffed elephant who sadly needs to be... ahem, [[KillTheCutie "defeated"]] in order for the game to progress.
* MacroZone: The ''entire game'' takes place in one Macro Zone after another, as the toy-ified couple navigate through their house and yard in an attempt to find a way to restore their human bodies.


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* ToyTransmutation: May and Cody have their minds transferred into dolls, and spend the entirety of the game traversing through their (now-gigantic-to-them) house in the hope of finding a method of returning to their human bodies.

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''For the 1995 film of no relation, see [[Film/ItTakesTwo1995 here]].''



''For the 1995 film of no relation, see [[Film/ItTakesTwo1995 here]].''
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* DyingToWakeUp: {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{Averted|Trope}}; when May and Cody [[ForcedTransformation were turned into dolls]], May tries to die to wake up. Only to immediately reconfigure herself and realise that [[WrongGenreSavvy they cannot do this]].
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* CombatResusciation: In all battles, a downed character can be revived after a bit of time, which can be sped up pressing the action button repeatedly. If both Cody and May are downed at the same time, the fight is lost and the game reloads the last save.

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* CombatResusciation: CombatResuscitation: In all battles, a downed character can be revived after a bit of time, which can be sped up pressing the action button repeatedly. If both Cody and May are downed at the same time, the fight is lost and the game reloads the last save.

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* StealthPun: In the prologue, during breakfast, Rose is playing with Cutie the Elephant while her parents look on waiting to tell her about their separating. When they can't wait any longer, Cody offers to take Cutie from Rose for a moment so they can talk. ''The parents want to talk about the elephant in the room''.

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In the prologue, during breakfast, Rose is playing with Cutie the Elephant while her parents look on waiting to tell her about their separating. When they can't wait any longer, Cody offers to take Cutie from Rose for a moment so they can talk. ''The parents want to talk about the elephant in the room''.room''.
** One of the wasp minibosses fought during the Tree chapter attacks May and Cody with a rotating sawblade or, in other words, a ''buzz''saw.
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Just like ''A Way Out'', ''It Takes Two'' has no single-player option: It is playable only in either online or local split-screen co-op between two players. The two take control over May or Cody and make use of level-specific gimmicks to defeat bosses, complete challenges and solve puzzles.

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Just like ''A Way Out'', ''It Takes Two'' has no single-player option: It is playable only in either online or local split-screen co-op between two players. The two players take control over of May or and Cody and make use of level-specific gimmicks to defeat bosses, complete challenges and solve puzzles.
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A feature film adaptation of the game was [[https://deadline.com/2022/04/it-takes-two-video-game-film-lands-at-amazon-seven-bucks-productions-boards-1235006592/ announced]] in April 2022 for Creator/AmazonStudios. Pat Casey and Josh Miller (''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'') will write the screenplay and Creator/DwayneJohnson will produce through his Seven Bucks Productions label.

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A feature film adaptation of the game was [[https://deadline.com/2022/04/it-takes-two-video-game-film-lands-at-amazon-seven-bucks-productions-boards-1235006592/ announced]] in April 2022 for Creator/AmazonStudios. Pat Casey and Josh Miller (''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'') of ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'' will write the screenplay and Creator/DwayneJohnson will produce through his Seven Bucks Productions label.

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''It Takes Two'' is a [[GenreMashup genre-busting]] action-adventure video game developed by Hazelight Studios and published by Electronic Arts under the EA Originals label. It is the third game by writer and director Creator/JosefFares, who previously made ''VideoGame/BrothersATaleOfTwoSons'' and ''VideoGame/AWayOut''. Just like ''A Way Out'', ''It Takes Two'' has no single-player option: It is playable only in either online or local split-screen co-op between two players.

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''It Takes Two'' is a [[GenreMashup genre-busting]] action-adventure video game developed by Hazelight Studios and published by Electronic Arts under the EA Originals label. It is the third game by writer and director Creator/JosefFares, who previously made ''VideoGame/BrothersATaleOfTwoSons'' and ''VideoGame/AWayOut''. Just like ''A Way Out'', ''It Takes Two'' has no single-player option: It is playable only in either online or local split-screen co-op between two players.
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The game released on March 26, 2021 to widespread critical acclaim, winning Game of the Year at both the Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2021 and the 25th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards, and selling more than 5 million copies.

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Just like ''A Way Out'', ''It Takes Two'' has no single-player option: It is playable only in either online or local split-screen co-op between two players. The two take control over May or Cody and make use of level-specific gimmicks to defeat bosses, complete challenges and solve puzzles.

The game released on March 26, 2021 to widespread critical acclaim, winning Game of the Year at both the Game of the Year at The 2021 Game Awards 2021 and the 25th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards, and selling more than 5 million copies.

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* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'', particularly Book 1. In ''Infinity Train'', it's Tulip who runs away from home and enters a magic world where she helps understand the emotions caused by her parents' divorce and understand that it wasn't necessarily their fault that it happened. In the game, the parents (who are about to divorce) are the ones who have to come to terms with their actions on their daughter [[spoiler:who decides that she'll run away from home, believing that the divorce is her fault.]]

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* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'', particularly Book 1. In ''Infinity Train'', it's Tulip who runs away from home and enters a magic world where she helps understand slowly understands the emotions caused by her parents' divorce and understand that it wasn't necessarily their fault that it happened. In the game, the parents (who are about to divorce) are the ones who have to come to terms with their actions on their daughter [[spoiler:who decides that she'll run away from home, believing that the divorce is her fault.]]


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* ThereAreNoTherapists: Clearly there aren't any to help Rose deal with her parents' divorcing or how she's [[spoiler:blaming herself for why her parents want to split apart, enough that she wants to run away from home.]] The closest thing to therapy the family has is a magic book.
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* WhamLine: Cody and May read Rose's letter and how she knows how to make things good again. But her solution is...
-->'''Rose:''' ''(as she's [[spoiler:walking down an empty road]])'' [[spoiler:I know I'm not a perfect daughter. I'm sorry that I don't like to brush my teeth. I'm sorry that I like to read books after bedtime. I'm sorry I don't put my toys where they should be. I know it's my fault that you want to divorce. I'll leave you alone so you can become friends again.]]
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** When May [[spoiler:takes on the squirrel chief as she and Cody attempt to make a getaway using the squirrels' airplane]], the gameplay shifts to a FightingGame format strongly resembling ''Videogame/StreetFighter'' and/or ''Franchise/MortalKombat'', right down to having health bars with names and thumbnails, moves such as a [[KamehameHadoken Hadouken attack]], and its own take on fatalities.

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** When May [[spoiler:takes on the squirrel chief as she and Cody attempt to make a getaway using the squirrels' airplane]], the gameplay shifts to a FightingGame format strongly resembling ''Videogame/StreetFighter'' ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' and/or ''Franchise/MortalKombat'', right down to having health bars with names and thumbnails, moves such as a [[KamehameHadoken Hadouken attack]], and its own take on fatalities.

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* ToyTime: A large portion of the game takes place in a fantastical version of Rose's toy-filled bedroom.


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* TimeRewindMechanic: One of Cody's abilities enables him to rewind the course of action for certain inanimate things, such as a broken staircase, for a couple of seconds (i.e. reverse its collapse).
* ToyTime: A large portion of the game takes place in a fantastical version of Rose's toy-filled bedroom.
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* CombatResusciation: In all battles, a downed character can be revived after a bit of time, which can be sped up pressing the action button repeatedly. If both Cody and May are downed at the same time, the fight is lost and the game reloads the last save.

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